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Our blood transfusion service is critical to the operation of emergency and in-patient care across NSW.

About our Transfusion Pathology service

Our Transfusion teams manage the safe supply, storage and release of donor blood and blood products from our hospital laboratory blood banks.

We manage transfusions to replace or supplement missing or malfunctioning elements of the blood and immune systems. This may be due to cancer, surgery, pregnancy and childbirth, anaemia, bleeding disorders, accident or trauma and more.

Service overview 

Our teams provide critical support by advising clinicians on the appropriate blood to give patients depending on their blood type.

We supply donor blood products to:

  • rural hospital networks
  • NSW Ambulance
  • rescue helicopters
  • various other services.

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.

Email: [email protected]

Find out more

For more infor­ma­tion on trans­fu­sions and blood banks, vis­it Aus­tralian Red Cross Lifeblood:

Visit Australian Red Cross Lifeblood

For more infor­ma­tion on pathol­o­gy tests, vis­it Pathol­o­gy Tests Explained, which offers edu­ca­tion and unbi­ased infor­ma­tion on Aus­tralian pathol­o­gy tests.

Visit Pathology Tests Explained

To learn more about pathol­o­gy, vis­it the Know Pathol­o­gy, Know Health­care website.

Visit Know Pathology, Know Healthcare
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A/Prof Mark Dean
A/Prof Mark Dean

Chair, NSWHP Transfusion Clinical Stream Senior Staff Specialist, Haematology NSWHP-North Gosford.

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