P46 Sharing Information Via a Regional Web Site.

The Trent Regional Transfusion Committee (RTC) identified that communication of information and best practice was a priority following feedback from an education day for hospital transfusion teams in July 2005. At this time there was no route of communication to the hospital transfusion teams other than via the RTC members. An RTC ‘newsletter sub-group’, co-ordinated by the NBS regional hospital liaison team, was established to produce a newsletter which was sent to members of hospital transfusion teams in the region. This was effective in providing information about the RTC, its members and its purpose. However the communication was one way and limited to the frequency of the production of newsletters. A further RTC ‘web-site sub-group’ was established and included multidisciplinary membership from the Trent region. A regional web-site was developed and hosted by United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust. The web site is accessible to hospital transfusion teams in the region and contains information regarding meetings, presentations, and regional initiatives together with a database of documents. The sub-groups of the RTC and members of hospital transfusion teams send information to the web master for inclusion on the web-site. The web-site was launched in June 2006 and a survey was conducted with members of the hospital transfusion teams to assess improvement in communication within the region. The survey has concluded that sharing of information and best practice has improved within the region. The web-site will be further developed and will have links to other web-sites and useful documents. This has been a successful project for the RTC, meeting local need and supporting networking between hospital trusts within the Trent region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]