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Our 2010/11 Achievements
- We maintained strong blood stock levels through our
dedicated collection teams and everyone who supports
them, plus well-planned marketing activity.
- We collected nearly 2 million blood donations from nearly
1.4 million donors from teams operating across England
and North Wales.
- Blood collection productivity
increased again this year and has grown by 22% over the
past three years.
- We carried out 3,740 transplants in the UK - the sixth year on year growth in
the number of transplants. And the number of deceased
organ donors increase to over 1,000 - a new record.
Consent rates for organ donation following brain death
also continued to rise from 61% of families approached
about donation in 2009/10 to 65% in 2010/11.
- We delivered £30m in savings to the NHS to reinvest in
frontline patient care through a successful three-year
change programme. This saw us consolidate some of our
manufacturing and testing departments to reduce the cost
of a unit of blood from £140 in 2008/09 to just under
£125 by 2010/11.
- We improved security of blood
supply, reducing the number of days where stock levels
have fallen below acceptable levels from 87 in 2007/8 to
only two in 2010/11.
- We have increased
productivity in testing by 35% and in processing by 50%
since April 2008. This means we are on track to achieve
European top quartile performance levels in both areas
by the end of 2011/12.
- We improved blood safety
by introducing bacterial screening and improving the way
we assess new tests.
- We reduced incidences of
fainting and rebleeding which improved blood donor
safety and satisfaction.
- We also reduced the
number of non-compliances from regulatory inspections.
- We delivered the first UK-wide 10 year stem cell
transplant strategy to all four governments. And we have
already started implementing findings through high
resolution stem cell testing to deliver better patient
outcomes.
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