Welcome to the 2024 National HTC

The New Zealand Blood Service (NZBS) invites you to the

2024 NATIONAL HOSPITAL TRANSFUSION COMMITTEE MEETING

Where:   The Icon Room, Te Papa, 55 Cable Street, Wellington

When:     29th November 2024

Please join us for an informative meeting sponsored by the NZBS that should appeal to all Blood Bank Scientists and Hospital Transfusion Committee members to discuss transfusion practice in a national forum.

This year’s fully catered meeting focuses on themes of Transfusion-Associated Circulatory Overload and Wrong Blood in Tube, with opportunity for general wider discussion.

We are fortunate to have three international speakers joining us:

  • Shruthi Narayan, Medical Director of the UK's Serious Hazards of Transfusion (SHOT) Programme  
  • Sharran Grey, Transfusion Medicine Consultant and, Training and Clinical Supervisor for Higher Specialist Scientist Trainees in Clinical Haematology; SHOT Steering Group
  • Nancy Dunbar, Associate Medical Director of the Transfusion Medicine Service at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, USA.

and

  • Lara Hopley, National Chief Clinical informatics Officer (HINZ)