Patient Blood Management and Perioperative Care (PBMPC)

Background

The World Health Organisation (WHO) and James Lind Alliance (JLA) have highlighted Patient Blood Management (PBM) as a priority for research and healthcare improvement. National reports, including the Infected Blood Inquiry (IBI), have also stressed the need for better data-sharing to improve transfusion safety.

Our Aims

The PBMPC research database will bring together real-world NHS data to help:

• Understand who receives transfusions and whether they follow best practice.
• Identify differences in transfusion care across hospitals and patient groups.
• Assess whether PBM strategies improve patient outcomes.
• Improve efficiency in blood use and reduce waste.
• Ensure equal access to high-quality care across all patient groups.

How This Will Help

By turning data into action, this research will support safer, more effective, and more sustainable blood management, benefiting both patients and the healthcare system.

Who We Are

This work has been developed by the NIHR Blood & Transplant Research Unit in Data Driven Transfusion Practice, a NIHR-funded research unit with over 40 researchers across multiple institutions and hospitals in England supported by the Regional Thames Valley and Surrey Secure Data Environment team.

Our unit brings together patients, the public, researchers, and multi-disciplinary clinicians with a shared goal: to improve transfusion care. By accelerating the use of large-scale health data, we aim to optimise blood usage in clinical practice and improve patient outcomes.