NHSBT/HPA Epidemiology Unit Annual Reviews

2010 Review

Safe supplies: focusing on epidemiology includes the annual review, the supplementary tables, and a summary of data sources and methods that accompany the text.

 Archive of Annual Reports 2004-2009

NHSBT/HPA Epidemiology Unit Six-Monthly Reports (Blood Donation)

Please note that from January 2009 onwards, six-monthly infection surveillance reports for blood donation are no longer available. Please see our blood donor page, our Annual Reports, or contact us if you require specific information. Please see our archive for previously published six-monthly reports to the end of 2008

Other NHSBT/HPA Epidemiology Unit Reports

HPR: Surveillance of markers of infection detected in antenatal samples tested by NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT): England 2009 

HPR: Surveillance of viral infections in donated blood: England and Wales 2009 

HPR: Transfusion transmitted infections reported to the NHSBT/HPA Epidemiology unit, 2009 

Archive of other NHSBT/HPA Epidemiology Unit Reports

General blood transfusion

Barbara J. Why 'safer than ever' might not be quite safe enough. Transfusion Medicine and Hemotherapy 2004; 31 (suppl 1): 2-10.

Infections in blood donors

Davison KL, Dow B, Barbara JA, Hewitt PE, Eglin R. 2009. The introduction of anti-HTLV testing of blood donations and the risk of transfusion transmitted HTLV, UK:2002-2006. Transfusion Medicine. 2009; 19: 24-34.

Brant LJ, Bukasa A, Davison KL, Newham J, Barbara JA. Increase in recently acquired syphilis infections in English, Welsh and Northern Irish blood donors. Vox Sang. 2007; 93:19-26.

Risk estimates

Brant LJ, Davison KL. 2008. Infections detected in English surgical bone and deceased donors (2001-2006) and estimated risk of undetected hepatitis B and hepatitis C Virus. Vox Sanguinis 2008; 95, 272-279

Soldan K, Barbara JA, Ramsay ME, Hall AJ. 2003. Estimation of the risk of hepatitis B virus, hepatitis C virus and human immunodeficiency virus infectious donations entering the blood supply in England, 1993-2001. Vox Sanguinis 2003;, 84: 274-286.

Soldan K, Sinka K. Evaluation of the de-selection of men who have had sex with men from blood donation in England. Vox Sanguinis 2003; 84: 265-273.

Soldan K, Davison K, Dow BC. Estimates of the frequency of HBV, HCV, and HIV infectious donations entering the blood supply in the United Kingdom, 1996 to 2003. Eurosurveillance 2005; 10: 9-10.

For more papers on blood safety and risk estimates in Europe see Eurosurveillance Surveillance Monthly release, February 2005, volume 10, issue 2.

Transfusion transmitted infections

Llewelyn CA, Hewitt PE, Knight RS, Amar K, Cousens S, Mackenzie J, Will RG. Possible transmission of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease by blood transfusion. Lancet 2004; 363: 417-21.

Soldan K, Barbara JA, Dow BC. Transfusion-transmitted hepatitis B virus infection in the UK: a small and moving target. Vox Sanguinis 2002; 83(4): 305-308.

Peden AH, Head MW, Ritchie DL, Bell JE, Ironside JW. Preclinical vCJD after blood transfusion in a PRNP codon 129 heterozygous patient. Lancet 2004; 364:527-9.

Serious Hazards of Transfusion scheme

SHOT Reports & Summaries

Stainsby, D., Jones, H., Asher, D., Atterbury, C., Boncinelli, A., Brant, L., Chapman, C. E., Davison, K., Gerrard, R., Gray, A., Knowles, S., Love, E. M., Milkins, C., McClelland, D. B., Norfolk, D. R., Soldan, K., Taylor, C., Revill, J., Williamson, L. M., and Cohen, H. Serious Hazards of Transfusion: a Decade of Hemovigilance in the UK. Transfus.Med Rev. 2006;20(4):273-82.

Williamson L, Cohen H, Love E, Jones H, Todd A, Soldan K. The Serious Hazards of Transfusion (SHOT) initiative: the UK approach to haemovigilance. Vox Sanguinis 2000; 78:(suppl 2) 291-95.

Williamson LM, Lowe S, Love E, Cohen H, Soldan K, McClelland DB, Skacel P, Barbara JA. Serious hazards of transfusion (SHOT) initiative: analysis of the first two annual reports. British Medical Journal 1999; 319; 16-19.

Tissue donation

Zou S, Dodd RY, Stramer SL, Strong DM. Probability of viremia with HBV, HCV, HIV, and HTLV among tissue donors in the United States. New England Journal of Medicine 2004; 351(8); 751-759.

Anon. Rabies in patients who received organ transplants in Germany. CDR Weekly, Volume 15, Number 9 (3 March 2005).

Click to access the UK Blood Transfusion Services Donor Selection Guidelines for blood and tissue donors.

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