[9][3] TP activities aim to increase awareness and knowledge to improve clinical decision making and enhance practice.
Transfusion practice require a multidisciplinary approach and TPs are seen as the link between different health professionals and departments, such as clinical and laboratory colleagues, as well as patients.
These committees ideally include multidisciplinary membership, and provide support, guidance, and endorsement of the TP activities.
[5][11] Activities of the TP may include: Haemovigilance is the set of surveillance procedures that monitors, reports, investigates, and analyses adverse events related to transfusion.
By conducting process reviews and communicating directly with the relevant colleagues and patients, the TP can provide essential details that are needed to complete investigations.
Education can be targeted for the appropriate clinical groups (nursing, medical and allied health professionals) highlighting and promoting evidence-based practice change or national and international recommendations.
Education topics include, but are not limited to: TPs collaborate with department heads and senior management to facilitate mandatory and non-mandatory staff education/training consistent with regulatory requirements/recommendations.
Surveillance is often achieved through audits which helps to identify gaps in practice, compliance to standards and guidelines and staff knowledge deficits.
The TP liaison role between departments and clinical specialties helps them to facilitate and manage improvements/change involving and engaging appropriate stakeholders.