Transfusion Medicine Services for Health Professionals

Transfusion Update 2010 

Presentations from this year's conference are now available via the link above.

If you would like to give us feedback on this year's Transfusion Update, or let us know what you would like to see next year, please fill out the survey at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/TU10

Message Board

Nucleic acid testing for HBV

The Australian Red Cross Blood Service currently performs infectious disease screening using a combination of serological methods for HIV, HBV, HCV, HTLV and syphilis, and nucleic acid testing (NAT) for HIV and HCV.

In 2010, the Blood Service is replacing the current semi-automated NAT system and duplex assay (Procleix HIV-1/HCV Assay) with a fully automated testing system (Procleix Tigris) and a new triplex assay for the simultaneous detection of HIV-1 RNA, HCV RNA and HBV DNA (Procleix Ultrio Assay).

2009 ARCBS customer feedback survey results

We are pleased to be able to share the national results of our 2009 Customer Satisfaction Survey with you.

Our annual survey is one of the tools we use to help us focus our efforts on the areas of our service which are most important to you, our customer. State based reports are now available.