Human errors in blood supplies ‘cause for concern’
There were 144 cases of adverse reactions relating to the transfusion of blood and blood components last year, according to the 2001 annual report of the National Haemovigilance Office (NHO). Almost 50% of these related to the incorrect blood component or product being transfused.
The errors documented by the report for these 69 people include the product being misnamed in medical notes or a patient getting a blood product prescribed for someone else.
