About our Guidelines | British Society for Haematology

UPDATE: Guidelines on the use of irradiated blood components

Please note: to those who have either viewed or downloaded this guideline that it has been published with a number of errors. It is in the process of undergoing finial revisions. The guideline will be taken down from BJHaem and BSH Guidelines pages. An updated final version will be published shortly. Please check the guidelines and news webpages for updates.

Commentary: Preventing transfusion-associated graft-versus-host disease with blood component irradiation: indispensable guidance for a deadly disorder.

Please note: As of Friday, August 28th this commentary is no longer available to view until the final version of the guideline is published.

To those who have either viewed or downloaded this commentary for the Guidelines on the use of irradiated blood components; that this commentary has been updated however, the previous version had included the recommendations which are now removed from the final guideline.

Written by expert consultants and clinical scientists currently practising in the UK, the BSH Guidelines provide up-to-date evidence-based guidance on the diagnosis and treatment of haematological diseases.

For those with slower machines or internet connections, please see our plain text version of the Guidelines listing.

You will find three styles of guideline:

BSH Guideline (previously known as BCSH Guidelines)
Evidence-based guideline developed following a professional literature search and a review of the evidence by the writing group.

BSH Good Practice Paper
Used to recommend good practice in areas where there is a less robust evidence base but for which a degree of consensus or uniformity is likely to be beneficial to patient care.

BSH Position Paper
The adoption and adaptation of a non-UK evidence-based guideline for use in the UK.

Join BSH to get advance previews and to input into Guidelines via our "sounding board".

See the list of archived BSH Guidelines or modify your communications preferences to receive up-to-date news and information on BSH Guidelines.

The copyright for the guidelines and the material in the guidelines (which includes the text, tables, photographs, images and figures) is owned by Wiley. For the avoidance of doubt, you must not reproduce any part of the guidelines without prior permission from Wiley. You may request permission to use the copyright materials in these guidelines by emailing permissions@wiley.com

Please note that we cannot provide clinical advice on the guidelines to members of the public.

If you have any suggestions for new guidelines or have any guideline enquiries please contact Rita Gupta (Guidelines Programme Manager) by email bshguidelines@b-s-h.org.uk

Guidelines Session ASM Videos available for viewing

To access the Guidelines Session presentations from the 2019 Annual Scientific Meeting in Glasgow please follow the link below.

https://b-s-h.org.uk/education/lectures-and-videos/annual-scientific-meeting-2019/guidelines-session/

You will need to log in as a BSH member to view them.

Join as a BSH member

The following presentations given during the Guidelines Session with link to the BSH Guideline are below:

Use of viscoelastic haemostatic assays in the management of major bleeding - Dr Nikki Curry

Diagnosis and therapy of genetic haemochromatosis - Dr Edward Fitzsimons

Use of hydroxycarbamide in children and adults with sickle cell disease - Dr Amrana Quereshi