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THE BBTS ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2024 WILL TAKE PLACE AT THE SEC IN GLASGOW FROM 17TH TO 19TH SEPTEMBER.

Please visit the BBTS Conference pages on this website for details and registration.


Attracting high profile speakers and delegates from around the globe, the BBTS Annual Conference is the event of choice for almost 500 transfusion professionals each year.

With an eclectic mix of lecture styles and subject topics the BBTS Annual Conference offers something for everyone regardless of career level and specific discipline.



Winning Posters from our September 2022 conference

Blood Donation (including Donor Safety)

The challenge of out of range full blood count parameters in donor screening 
Naim Akhtar, Alvin Fabiana, David Roberts, Emanuele Angelantonio

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Components, Donation testing and Safety, tissues, cells and cellular therapies

A novel predictive model for CD34+ stem cell yield in autologous stem cell collections
J Wolf, C Macdonald-Wallis, K Pretty, E Allen, O Pirret, J Griffin, M Karakantza

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Diagnostic Science and Technology

Laboratory IT and service consolidation: it's (not) all doom and gloom!
Ben Holmes

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Diagnostics, Science & Technology

The development of a Transfusion Practitioner (TP) competency framework for Wales
Joanne Gregory

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Patient Blood Management

Perioperative anaemia - achieving a national pathway in Wales
S Ditcham, L Wong, D Underwood, E Massey, C R Evans

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Quality, Regulation and Governance (including patient safety)

Blood transfusion laboratory staffing audit                                                          Tracy Hui, Fateha Chowdhury, David Johnson, Linda Chapple, Athif Rahman

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