Guidelines for the UK Blood and Tissue Services

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The following guidelines are for healthcare professionals working in the UK Blood and Tissue Services.

For the assessment of travel-related risks

For red cells, platelets, plasma or granulocytes

For donations of tissue from deceased donors

For donations of tissue from living donors

For donations of unrelated allogeneic stem cells

For donations of cord blood stem cells from placentae

Guidelines for the Blood Transfusion and Tissue Transplantation Services in the UK

Change number	Title	Updated	Guidelines affected
09-2026	Changes to be introduced on the new JPAC website (PDF only, 864KB)	1 May 2026	Geographical indexWhole bloodTissue (deceased)Tissue (live)Bone marrowCord blood
10-2026	Changes to entries in the GDRI and DSGs (PDF only, 418KB)	1 May 2026	Geographical indexWhole bloodTissue (deceased)Tissue (live)Bone marrowCord blood
08-2026	VHF risk in Ethiopia (PDF only, 194KB)	23 March 2026	Geographical index
02-2026	Removal of vCJD risk from blood component labels (PDF only, 183KB)	17 February 2026	Red book
03-2026	Red Book Chapter 23 (PDF only, 869KB)	17 February 2026	Red book

Title	Updated
Collection of plasma for fractionation from donors who are anti-HBc positive (PDF only, 98KB)	20 April 2026
Estimated residual risk for HBV, HCV and HIV (PDF only, 229KB)	20 April 2026
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) (PDF only, 100KB)	20 April 2026
Surveillance: preparedness for emerging infectious agents (PDF only, 255KB)	17 March 2026
Blood donation and genetic haemochromatosis (PDF only, 90KB)	17 February 2026