Manitoba has a strong collaborative community supporting safe and appropriate transfusions.  This community includes:

• Shared Health – Transfusion Medicine Section

  • Is responsible for the provision of blood bank and Transfusion Medicine services and the quality of those services

• Advisory Groups

  • Provincial Transfusion Practice Advisory Committee
  • Technical Resource Group
  • Provincial Nursing Resource Group for Transfusion Practice

• Transfusion Practice Committees

• Canadian Blood Services http://www.blood.ca/

  • TRALI Patient Data Form

• College of Physicians & Surgeons Manitoba

  • Manitoba Quality Assurance Program (MANQAP) http://cpsm.mb.ca/manqap
  • The objective of MANQAP is to establish standards for diagnostic facilities, to investigate and inspect diagnostic facilities for accreditation and to monitor compliance with established standards