Do Private Hospitals use NHS Blood Donations?
Dear NHS Blood and Transplant,
Please can you advise whether or not private hospitals in England currently use NHS-supplied blood donations for the purpose of transfusion during planned surgery and whether this was the case in 1986.
Yours faithfully,
Thomas Galanis
Our ref: MOC/ 364856
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Our ref: MOC/ 364856
Dear Mr Galanis
Re: Information request
Thank you for your request dated 22 January 2019 for information from NHS
Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) regarding blood supplied to private
hospitals.
Please find attached our response.
I hope this is helpful in addressing your questions. Please quote the
reference number above in any future communications.
Yours sincerely
Wayne Lawley
Head of Corporate Communications
E-mail: [email address]
If you are unhappy with the service you have received in relation to your
request and wish to make a complaint or request a review of our decision,
you should write to: Customer Services Operations Manager, NHS Blood and
Transplant, Charcot Road, Colindale, NW9 5BG (Email:
[email address]).
If you are not content with the outcome of your complaint, you may apply
directly to the Information Commissioner for a decision. Generally, the
ICO cannot make a decision unless you have exhausted the complaints
procedure provided by NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT). The Information
Commissioner can be contacted at: The Information Commissioner’s Office,
Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF.
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NHS Blood and Transplant
Do something amazing today - Give Blood.
Organ donation. The gift of life.
You can visit us at [1]www.nhsbt.nhs.uk
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The views expressed in this e-mail are those of the sender, and not
necessarily those of NHS Blood and Transplant.
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swept for the presence of computer viruses by NHS Blood and Transplant,
however we cannot guarantee that they are virus free.
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be archived, and their contents monitored.
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