BBTS Conference

BBTS 2024: Clinical and Scientific Programme

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DAY 1: Tuesday 17th September

Time
8:00 onwards	REGISTRATION
9:15 - 9:30	Conference Opening from BBTS President Prof Dave Roberts
	Simultaneous Sessions 9.30 - 11.00
9:30 - 11:00	Red Cell SIG: Part 1 Session Chair(s): Lesley Bruce and Vanja Crew Speakers and topics: TBC Session 1 of 3	Paediatric SIG: NeoNatal Transfusions Session Chair: Anne Kelly, Consultant Paediatric Haematologist,Great Ormond Street Hospital and NHSBT Speakers and topics: Dr Phillip Arnold, Consultant Anaethetist, Alder Hey, Liverpool Point of care testing of coagulation and Patient Blood Management in Children Dr Samiran Ray, Consultant in Paediatric Intensive Care, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London Paediatric Transfusion Practices in ICU - are results from a prospective observational study Professor Luciana Teofili, Fondazione Policlinico A. Gemelli IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore - The 4 W's of cord blood transfusion in preterm neonates: Why, Who, What and When	Cellular Therapies SIG: Session Chair: Kenny Douglas Speakers and topics: TBC
11:00 - 11:30	Break & Trade Exhibition
	Simultaneous Sessions 11.30 - 13.00
11:30 - 13:00	Red Cell SIG: Part 2 Session Chair(s): Lesley Bruce and Vanja Crew Speakers and topics: TBC Session 2 of 3	Patient Blood Management SIG: Consent, Choice and Candour Session Chair(s):Danny Gaskin, National Patient Blood Management Practitioner NHSBT and Fateha Chowdhury, Consultant Haematologist in Transfusion Medicine, NHSBT Speakers and topics: Dr Fateha Chowdhury Case Presentation: Why is consent important? Mark Tarrant Jehovah's Witnesses and Blood Transfusion Anwen Davies QS138: How well are we doing on consent? Discussion with all speakers	Microbiology SIG: Session Chairs: Su Brailsford, Consultant in Epidemiology and Health Protection andInterim Clinical Director Microbiology and Public Health, NHSBT and ShannonGates,Scientist - Microbiology Speakers and topics: Peter Simmonds, BTRU -GEMS Lessons learnt from the past blood-born virus contamination of clotting factor concentrates Claire Reynolds, Senior Scientist, NHS Blood and Transplant/UKHSA Epidemiology Unit Syphilis and blood donors –does it matter? Ines Ushiro-Lumb, Consultant in Microbiology, NHS Blood and Transplant Update on HHV-8 (title tbc)
13:00 - 14:00	Lunch/Lunchtime Symposium Sponsored by Speakers and topics: TBC
	Simultaneous Sessions 14.00 - 15.30
14:00 -	Red Cell SIG: Part 3 Session Chair(s): Lesley Bruce and Vanja Crew Session 3 of 3	Blood Bank TechnologySIG: Transfusion at the cutting edge Session Chair: Ben Holmes Jennifer Davies, Transfusion Manager, Royal Devon University Healthcare, NHS Foundation Trust: Using artificial intelligence for Kleihauer slide interpretation Laura Eastwood, Consultant Scientist Trainee, NHSBT: VR training Speaker TBC: SRP treatment for Daratumumab patients	Components SIG: Frozen and dried blood components Session Chair: Mike Wiltshire Dr Matt Ellington, Clinical Research Fellow in Haematology, Component Development Laboratory, NHSBT: Military use of alternative blood components Katarzyna Oleniacz, Component Development Scientist, Component Development Laboratory, NHSBT: Spray-dried plasma Shane Girmsley, DipRCPath, FBBTS, Senior Clinical Scientist (HSST), IBGRL, NHSBT: The importance, use and specification of frozen red cells
15:30 - 16:00	Break & Trade Exhibition
16:00 - 17:30	Plenary I: Blood Supply: Infected Blood Enquiry Plenary Chair: Julie Staves, Transfusion Laboratory Manager, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Speakers and Topics: Su Brailsford, Consultant in Epidemiology and Health Protection, NHSBT Blood Service aspects of the IBI Mike Murphy, Transfusion Consultant, NHS Blood and Transplant, Oxford University Hospitals Blood Service aspects of the IBI (title TBC) Marc Turner, Director, Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service The Scottish Experience
17:30 - 20:00	Exhibition Opening Evening & Buffet Supper (included in your registration fee)

DAY 2: Wednesday 18th September

Time
08.00 onwards	REGISTRATION
08:00 - 08:45
	Simultaneous Sessions 09.00 - 10.30
09:00 - 10:30	Margaret Kenwright awards Session Chair(s): Denise McKeown Speakers and topics:	Serious Hazards of Transfusion: Improving Transfusion Safety Session Chair(s): Shruthi Narayan and Caryn Hughes Speakers and topics: Learning from laboratory errors Safer transfusions for patients with shared care Implementations of actions following the TACO alert Engaging with patients	Serological Case Studies: Plan B for complex serology cases Session Chair: Laura Eastwood Speakers and topics: Speaker TBC Nicola Kirkham, Senior BMS, Royal Derby Hospital & Dianne Armstrong, Reference Laboratory Manager, RCI Barnsley: Case Study: title TBC Nicole Thornton, Head of Red Cell Reference, IBGRL: Case Study: title TBC Additional Simultaneous Session SS4: IT Session Chair(s): Julie Staves, Transfusion Laboratory Manager, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Rachel Moss Topic: Getting the Most out of your IT Julie Staves, Transfusion Laboratory Manager, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: Order Comms. (title TBC) James Davies, Senior Transfusion Practioner, Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: Electronic Systems (title TBC) Jennifer Davies, Transfusion Laboratory Manager, Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust: LIMS Systems (title TBC)
10:30 - 11:00	Break & Trade Exhibition
11:00 - 12:30	Plenary II: BBTS Award Lectures: Introduction to Awards by BBTS President Prof Dave Roberts Race and Sanger Award Lecture: Jeanette Stephens Kenneth Goldsmith Award Lecture: Laura Green Bleeding, Blood and Data: Learn from Every Transfusion James Blundell Award: Professor Dennis Lo Creating Paradigm Shifts in Diagnostics Using Plasma DNA The BBTS President will also announce Prof Mike Murphy as the 2024 BBTS Mollison Award winner
12:30 - 13:00	BBTS Annual General Meeting, Members Only
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch & Trade Exhibition
13:05 - 13:50	Lunch/Lunchtime Symposium Speakers and topics: TBC
	Simultaneous Sessions 14.00 - 15.30
14:00 - 15:30	Clinical Case Studies: Interesting cases Session Chairs: Katie Hands Speakers and topics: Helen New/Rebecca Braund: title TBC Asha Aggarwal: title TBC Katherine Philpott: title TBC Sara Wright: title TBC	Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: Transfusing the Transgender patient Session Chairs: Dr.Erhabor Osaro (BBTS EDI Committee Chair) and Ian Sullivan,Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust Speakers and topics: Alex Liveridge, Senior Lecturer Biomedical Science/School of Health, Leeds Beckett University: title TBC Samantha Bonney, Lead Transfusion Practitioner: title TBC Alice Walsingham -Clinical Scientist, NHSBT, Barnsley: title TBC	Transfusion 2024: Session Chair: Louise Sherliker Speakers and topics: TBC Additional Simultaneous Session BSH/BBTS Collaboration Session: Where haematology meets Transfusion Session Chairs: Simon Stanworth, NHSBT and Sue Pavord, Haematology Consultant, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Topic: Where Haematology meets Transfusion Dr Sue Pavord, Haematology Consultant,Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - VITT: title TBC John Brewin, Haematology Consultant, Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - Sickle cell disease: title TBC Dr Mike Desborough, Haematology Consultant, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - NAIT: title TBC
15:30 - 16:45	Break followed by networking and Poster Viewing Afternoon
16:45 - 17:15	Poster Prize Giving
19:00 - 23:30	Gala Dinner Crowne Plaza Hotel, Glasgow

DAY 3: Thursday 19thSeptember

Time	Session
08:00 onwards	REGISTRATION
09:30 - 11:00	Simultaneous Sessions: Transfusion Practitoner SIG: Developments and resources for TP enrichment Session Chairs: Karen Mead, Specialist Practitioner of Transfusion, Severn Pathology, North Bristol NHS Trust and Pedro Valle Vallines, Lead Transfusions Practitioner, Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust John Grant-Casey, Programme Manager, NHSBT: Making clinical audit work - an innovative approach to improving transfusion practice Jenifer Rock, T2024 Transfusion Education Specialist, NHSBT and Katarina Kacinova, Transfusion Practitioner, University Hospital of Derby and Burton NHSFT: Transfusion Practitioner Professional Development Framework: how will it benefit TPs today and in the future? Hospital Laboratory Session Chair: Tim Wreford-Bush and Graham Scott Topic: Recruiting Laboratory Staff Introduction Ian Davies, Lecturer, University of Stafford Apprentices: title TBC Shane Fearon, Specialist BMS, Southern Health and Social Care Trust, NI: Regional Recruitment - Northern Ireland: Recruiting Overseas - Bristol: title TBC Donar/Donations Chairs: Champa Manchanayake and Chiara Vendramin Additonal Simultaneous Session Research: Significance of Blood Group Session Chair: Nicole Thornton Speaker and topic TBC Tim Satchwell, UWE: Making sense of genetic data - let's get back to the protein Shane Grimsley, IBGRL, NHSBT: Blood group discovery - what it means for the patient
11:00 - 11:30	Break
11:30 - 13:00	Plenary III - Guidelines Plenary Chairs: Dave Roberts and Julie Staves, Transfusion Laboratory Manager, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Simon Stanworth, Consultant, NHSBT: Guidelines - The Why and How Edwin Massey, Velindre University NHS Trust & Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board: How to address something not in a guideline Amy Grove, University of Warwick: Barriers to the Implementation of Guidelines
13:00 - 13:15	Closing Remarks, Prof David Roberts
13:15- 13:45	Lunch
13:45	Close of Exhibition and Departure