SHOT: Transfusion Safety Standards

Summary

The SHOT Transfusion Safety Standards have been produced to promote and ensure safe, effective transfusions by identifying risks, implementing strategies that create a safer environment for everyone involved, contributing to better patient outcomes, staff wellbeing and overall system safety.

SHOT is the UK’s independent, professionally-led haemovigilance scheme analysing transfusion errors and reactions submitted annually since 1996 to identify areas for improvement to optimise safety. Haemovigilance reporting and learning from reports submitted contribute to improving patient safety. These reports provide a mechanism to identify risks so that all healthcare organisations can implement interventions to reduce these.