A recommendation in the Haemovigiliance Reporting(Opens in a new tab/window) was to “Conduct a scoping exercise for a national haemovigilance system”. In response to the recommendation, the NBA developed an options paper for consideration by the Haemovigilance Advisory Committee (HAC) and the Jurisdictional Blood Committee (JBC). The outcome from that consultation is the Strategic Framework for the National Haemovigilance Program (Strategic Framework), endorsed by the JBC in September 2014.
The Strategic Framework redefines the scope of national haemovigilance arrangements to emphasise activities that contribute to national standardisation, but suspends further work to develop a national IT system solution at this time. Although the NBA will not host a National Haemovigilance reporting IT system, the NBA will continue to collect, analyse and report haemovigilance data received from state and territories at the level defined in the Australian Haemovigilance Minimum Data Set.
The Strategic Framework is currently under review by HAC. Once it is reviewed it will be provided to JBC for endorsement.
Last updated: 27 Mar 2024