New blood bank fridges

April 8, 2019

The go live date for the new blood fridges across City and Sandwell will be Tuesday 9 April 2019. Because of the technicalities of the switchover any Emergency O Neg units will need to be collected from within the  blood bank laboratory on this day and also the next ( 9 April). If staff could phone ahead to say they are coming for any emergency units then our blood bank staff can make sure they are ready and available in the laboratory.

After this date at Sandwell any cross matched blood will also need to be collected from upstairs in blood bank until the new fridge has been swapped with the one on the corridor and is up and running. Please could you share this information with your nursing staff.

All personnel who have responsibilities for collection of blood products MUST be trained on the new fridges as all current logins for the old system will be disabled. Please contact Jayne Evans or Michelle Reeves (contact through Ivor)  if you have not already had this training.

Please contact Blood Bank (4251 or 3110) if you have any other concerns, other than training, regarding the new fridges.