JPAC Joint United Kingdom (UK) Blood Transfusion and Tissue Transplantation Services Professional Advisory Committee

Updates to the Red Book

2025

28 February CN 04-2025 4.2: Staffing and training principles for donation sessions
4.3: Clinical leadership at donor sessions
4.7: Equipment and consumables
4.9: References
24 January CN 02-2025 7.5.7: Human Plasma for Fractionation, Cryoprecipitate Depleted, Leucocyte Depleted

2024

07 October CN 28-2024 5.10: Staffing and training principles for donation sessions
5.13: Clinical leadership at donor sessions
Chapter 5, Appendix I - Serious Adverse Events of Donation (removed)
17 May CN 29-2024 7.5.6: Human Plasma for Fractionation, Leucocyte Depleted
18 April CN 05-2024 Chapter 7: Requirements for the timing of testing for Hematopoietic Progenitor Cells (HPCs)
Chapter 21: Tissue banking: tissue retrieval and processing
13 March CN 03-2024 Chapter 2: Quality in blood and tissue establishments and hospital blood banks
Chapter 6: Evaluation and manufacture of blood components
Chapter 7: Specifications for blood components
Annexe 3: Provisional Components
Annexe 4: Redundant Components
Annexe 5: Blood Components for Contingency Use

2023

11 December CN 40-2023 7.31: Irradiated components
9.2: Microbiology screening
9.3: Specific screening targets
9.4: Reinstatement of blood donors
9.7: Recommended standards for environmental monitoring (EM) of processing facilities
02 November CN 39-2023 Annexe 7: Requirements for the timing of testing for HPCs
04 September CN 16-2023 Chapter 4: Premises and quality assurance at blood donor sessions
Chapter 5: Collection of a blood or component donation
Chapter 11: Reagent manufacture
Chapter 12: Donation testing (red cell immunohaematology)
Chapter 13: Patient testing (red cell immunohaematology)
Chapter 14: Guidelines for the use of DNA/PCR techniques in Blood Establishments
Chapter 15: Molecular typing for red cell antigens
Chapter 16: HLA typing and HLA serology
Chapter 17: Granulocyte immunology
Chapter 18: Platelet immunology
Chapter 22: Haemopoietic progenitor cells
Annexe 7: Requirements for the timing of testing for HPCs
12 April CN 22-2023 Annexe 3.5: Red Cells and Plasma, Leucocyte Depleted
13 February CN 06-2023 Chapter 9: Microbiology tests for donors and donations: general specifications for laboratory test procedures
Chapter 10: Investigation of suspected transfusion-transmitted infection
Chapter 19: Tissue Banking: general principles
Chapter 20: Tissue Banking: selection of donors
Chapter 21: Tissue Banking: tissue retrieval and processing
Annexe 6: Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products (ATMPs)

2022

22 June CN 33-2022 Chapter 8: Evaluation of novel blood components, production processes and blood packs: generic protocols
22 March CN 09-2022 7.5.6: Human Plasma for Fractionation, Leucocyte Depleted
02 March CN 10-2022 Annexe 4: Redundant Components - Convalescent Plasma
02 March CN 11-2022 Annexe 3: Provisional Components - Whole blood, leucocyte depleted, for clinical studies
02 March CN 12-2022 Annexe 3: Provisional Components - Cryoprecipitate pooled, leucocyte depleted, extended shelf life post-thaw
11 January CN 44-2021 Annexe 5: Blood Components for Contingency Use

2021

22 June CN 18-2021 Chapter 3: - Care and selection of whole blood and component donors (including donors of pre-deposit autologous blood)
12 January CN 03-2021 Chapter 21: Tissue banking: tissue retrieval and processing

2020

17 November CN 66-2020 Annexe 3: Provisional Component - Convalescent Plasma (COVID-19), FFP, Leucocyte Depleted
17 November CN 67-2020 Annexe 3: Provisional Component - Convalescent Plasma (COVID-19), FFP, for Neonates and Infants, Leucocyte Depleted
26 October CN 35-2020 Annexe 3: Provisional Component - Whole Blood, Leucocyte Depleted for Clinical Studies
16 September CN 47-2020 Annexe 5: Platelets, Apheresis, Leucocyte Depleted, at Reduced Dose as a Contingency
08 June CN 32-2020 Annexe 3: Provisional Component - Red Cells and Plasma, Leucocyte Depleted
06 May CN 23-2020 Chapter 7: Fresh Frozen Plasma for Neonates and Infants, Leucocyte Depleted
06 May CN 24-2020 Chapter 7: Cryoprecipitate for Neonates and Infants, Leucocyte Depleted
06 May CN 25-2020 Chapter 7: Fresh Frozen Plasma, Leucocyte Depleted
07 May CN 27-2020 3.15: Blood Tests
21 April CN 19-2020 Annexe 4: Redundant Components
21 April CN 20-2020 Annexe 4: Redundant Components - Granulocytes, Apheresis
21 April CN 21-2020 Annexe 5: Blood Components for Contingency Use
21 April CN 22-2020 Annexe 5.1: Red Cells in Additive Solution, Leucocyte Depleted, Extended Shelf Life

2019

26 November CN 34-2020 Chapter 7: Platelets in Plasma and Additive Solution for Neonatal Use, Leucocyte Depleted

2017

06 April CN 10-2017 Chapter 7: Use of plasma from first time donors
27 January CN 01-2017 Chapter 11: General guidelines for reagent red cell manufacture
27 January CN 02-2017 Chapter 17 and 18 - Additional guidance re HNA and HPA antibody detection methods

2016

15 August CN 32-2016 Chapter 7: Red Cells, Thawed and Washed, Leucocyte Depleted
15 August CN 33-2016 Chapter 7: Removal of red cells from a controlled temperature environment
15 August CN 34-2016 Chapter 7: Removal of upper limit of pH from Platelet Components
21 June CN 31-2016 Annexe 3: Trial Components
11 May CN 23-2016 Chapter 21: Tissue banking: Tissue retrieval and processing
01 April CN 16-2016 Chapter 7: Fresh Frozen Plasma, Leucocyte Depleted
17 March CN 12-2016 Chapter 9: Microbiology tests for donors and donations: general specifications for laboratory test procedures

2015

14 December CN 30-2015 Chapter 7: Red Cells, Washed, Leucocyte Depleted
07 December CN 18-2015 Chapter 7: Interruptions to agitation and testing of Platelets, Pooled, Buffy Coat Derived, Leucocyte Depleted and Platelets, Apheresis, Leucocyte Depleted
07 December CN 19-2015 Chapter 7: Platelets in Additive Solution and Plasma, Leucocyte Depleted
07 December CN 20-2015 Chapter 6: Specific gravity of blood components
07 December CN 21-2015 Chapter 7: Leucocyte depletion of blood components - Concessionary release
07 December CN 22-2015 Chapter 7: Concessionary Release Limits for Selected Components
07 December CN 23-2015 Chapter 9: Removal of Chapter 9.4.2. and Figure 9.6
07 December CN 29-2015 25.6: Table 25.5: Protocol 000001 – blood component dispatch information
21 January CN 01-2015 25.6: Tables 25.4 and 25.5: Protocol 000001 – blood component dispatch information

2014

09 May CN 25-2014 Chapter 5, Appendix I: Points of care

2013

31 December CN 15-2013 Chapter 3, Appendix I: Extra-corporeal volume tables
31 December CN 16-2013 7.9.1: Platelets, Pooled, Buffy Coat Derived, Leucocyte Depleted
7.11.1: Platelets in Additive Solution and Plasma, Leucocyte Depleted
7.12.1: Platelets in Additive Solution, Leucocyte Depleted
9.5.3.1: Single-test system
12.11.2: Blood and blood components from group O donors with high titres of anti-A, anti-B and/or anti-A,B
31 December CN 17-2013 7.15: Fresh Frozen Plasma, Leucocyte Depleted
7.16: Fresh Frozen Plasma, Methylene Blue Treated and Removed, Leucocyte Depleted
7.17: Cryoprecipitate, Leucocyte Depleted
7.18: Cryoprecipitate Pooled, Leucocyte Depleted
7.20: Plasma, Cryoprecipitate Depleted, Leucocyte Depleted
7.27: Fresh Frozen Plasma, Neonatal Use, Methylene Blue Treated and Removed, Leucocyte Depleted
7.28: Cryoprecipitate, Methylene Blue Treated and Removed, Leucocyte Depleted
7.33: Cryoprecipitate, Pooled, Methylene Blue Treated and Removed, Leucocyte Depleted
26 June CN 11-2013 7.33: Cryoprecipitate, Pooled, Methylene Blue Treated and Removed, Leucocyte Depleted
26 June CN 12-2013 Annexe 3: Platelets in Additive Solution and Plasma, Leucocyte Depleted, Pathogen-reduced

 

Last updated 07/04/2025