National Blood Authority
AUSTRALIAN HAEMOVIGILANCE REPORT
A report by the National Blood Authority Haemovigilance Advisory Committee
Dr Alison Street Department of Health and Ageing
Dr Chris Hogan Australian Red Cross Blood Service
Mr Neville Board Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care
Dr Simon Brown Pathology Queensland
Ms Maria Burgess Transfusion Nurse, ACT Health
Ms Kim Stewart Proxy for NSW Health Department
Dr David De Leacy QML Pathology
Ms Linley Bielby Manager, VIC Blood Matters Program
Dr Audrey Koay WA Health
Ms Jenny Hargreaves Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Dr Anne Haughton Australian Association of Pathology Practices
Dr Bevan Hokin Australian Private Hospitals Association
Ms Susan McGregor Transfusion Nurse, Western Health
Professor John McNeil Epidemiologist, Monash University School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine
Dr Jan Fizzell NSW Health Department
Associate Professor Erica Wood Australian and New Zealand Society for Blood Transfusion
Mr Leigh McJames Chief Executive Officer and General Manager
Ms Sandra Cochrane Acting Deputy General Manager
Dr Paul Hyland Acting Director, Data and Information Analysis
Ms Suzie Cong Senior Data Analyst, Data and Information Analysis
Therapeutic Goods Administration
New South Wales Clinical Excellence Commission
New South Wales Health Blood Watch
Victorian Blood Matters, Better Safer Transfusion program and Blood Matters Advisory Committee
Queensland Health
Queensland Blood Management Program
South Australian Department of Health BloodSafe program
Western Australian Department of Health
Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania
ACT Health
Northern Territory Department of Health
This report was prepared on behalf of the National Blood Authority and the Haemovigilance Advisory Committee by:
Ms Suzie Cong
Dr Paul Hyland
Dr Morteza Mohajeri
Ms Christine Akers
Mr Scott McArdle
PART 03 donor vigilance was contributed by the Australian Red Cross Blood Service.