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Every day, our NSW Health Pathology colleagues take part in innovative research to improve public health and safety.
NSW Health Pathology offers a wide range of career opportunities and fosters a work culture that puts people first.
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Our Transfusion teams manage the safe supply, storage and release of donor blood and blood products from our hospital laboratory blood banks.
We help patients needing blood transfusions due to cancer, surgery, pregnancy and childbirth, anaemia, bleeding disorders, accident or trauma and more.
Our teams advise clinicians on which type of blood to give patients depending on their blood type.
We supply donor blood products to:
We work with the Ambulance Aeromedical Control Centre (ACC) to ensure retrieval teams can carry blood to save patients with critical bleeding from car accidents to shark attacks, on the ground or in the air.
We review our blood stocks daily to minimise wastage and ensure safe, timely supply of products for patients.
For more information on transfusions and blood banks, visit Australian Red Cross Lifeblood:
Visit Australian Red Cross LifebloodChair, NSWHP Transfusion Clinical Stream Senior Staff Specialist, Haematology NSWHP-North Gosford.
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NSW Health Pathology acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the land across NSW whose cultures and customs have nurtured and continue to nurture this land. We would like to pay our respects to the Elders past, present and emerging, for they hold the memories, the traditions, the culture and hopes of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples across the state.
NSW Health Pathology acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the land across NSW whose cultures and customs have nurtured and continue to nurture this land. We would like to pay our respects to the Elders past, present and emerging, for they hold the memories, the traditions, the culture and hopes of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples across the state.