Advances in Transfusion Medicine Symposium 2026 (RCPath & SHOT)

The Advances in Transfusion Medicine Symposium is run jointly by the Royal College of Pathologists and SHOT, the UK's independent haemovigilance scheme. The 2026 edition runs as two half-day Zoom sessions on Wednesday 25 and Thursday 26 November 2026, 09:30-13:00 each day. Attendance is free, but pre-registration is mandatory and each day must be registered for separately.

SHOT's reporting is the evidence base for what actually goes wrong in transfusion practice in the UK, including errors in the storage and handling of cold-stored components. For anyone working on blood cold chain, the value is understanding failure modes as clinicians and haemovigilance staff see them, and where handling and traceability requirements are heading. Free and virtual makes it a low-cost way to track that.

Transfusion practitioners, haematologists, biomedical scientists, blood-bank and laboratory staff, and haemovigilance and quality professionals, predominantly UK-based.