Events

Surgical Patient Blood Management Stakeholder Event 2025 

 

On Tuesday 20th May 2025, The Blood Health Team successfully hosted it’s second stakeholder event based around Surgical Patient Blood Management at Cardiff City Stadium. 

The event brought together 14 expert speakers for a day of insightful presentations and meaningful discussions focused on key aspects of Surgical Patient Blood Management, including pre and postoperative anaemia management and intraoperative cell salvage. 

The event was met with excellent feedback, reflecting strong stakeholder engagement and a shared commitment to improving patient outcomes through best practice. 

Content and presentations from the conference can be found in the section below: 

 

 

BHNOG Annual Conference Presentations

 

Below is the content from all conferences held by the BHNOG since the establishment of the group. The drop down arrows will take you to the specific conference, its content and presentations.

Pre-Operative Anaemia Management: Updates from Health Boards across Wales
Aneurin Bevan UHB
Betsi Cadwaladr UHB
Cardiff & Vale UHB
Cwm Taf Morganwwg UHB
Hywel Dda UHB
Swansea Bay UHB

 

 

Session 1: BHP Strategic Aim 1 – Support individuals to manage their blood health and wellbeing, avoiding unnecessary intervention:  Chair Dr Brian Tehan
How is it for you? Genetic Hamochromatosis donor story – Hywel Lloyd
Genetic Haemochromatosis – supporting the blood supply – Elisabeth Davies WBS & Neil McClements Haemochromatosis UK
Consent – are the patients sufficiently informed? Dr Shubha Allard NHSBT
Session 2: BHP Strategic Aim 2 – Use evidence and data to inform planning, improves practice and reduce inappropriate use of blood components:  Chair Dr Indu Thakur
Diversity in the donor panel – are we doing enough? Mr John James OBE, Chief Executive of Sickle Cell Society
Dashboards: Driving clinical practice with data Keith Howkins & Rebecca Capel, Digital Healthcare Wales
Session 3: BHP Strategic Aim 3 – Place safety and quality at the core of care, reducing variability and supporting innovation and development:  Chair Dr Caroline Evans
Partnering with patients to enhance transfusion safety Dr Shruthi Narayan, SHOT
How did you manage the Amber Alert? Dr Fateha Chowdhury, NHSBT
Anaemia Team Update Anaemia Management Team
Value Based Health Care Funding – Examples from across Wales of its use in optimisation of patients with pre-operative anaemia
Aneurin Bevan UHB      Betsi Cadwaladr UHB     Cwm Taf Morgannwg UHB                                                                   
Cardiff & Vale UHB       Hywel Dda UHB                 Swansea Bay UHB
                
Poster Presentation

Click on the poster images for the presentations

Winner: Improving the IV Iron pathway: Debra Evans & Tracey Williams Jones – Swansea Bay UHB

 

Introduction of an IV Iron service in the Orthopaedic Pre-operative assessment clinic in UHL, Cardiff:  Dr Nicola Ball, Sophia Jones & Fiona Northfield – Cardiff &Vale UHB

Introducing PCC into the Emergency Department: Aneurin Bevan UHB Transfusion Team

One at a time:  Hywel Dda UHB Transfusion Team

Pre-operative anaemia optimisation:  Yasmina Hamdaoui, Anwen Creegan & Dr Chris Bailey –  Ysbyty Gwynedd Hospital

Transfusion reactions in IgA deficient patients: Elisabeth Davies & Welsh Blood Service Clinical Services team

 

 

Maintaining Safety & Increasing Occupancy in the Haematology Day Unit: Natalie Poore & Dr Rajesh Gamare –  Aneurin Bevan UHB