ABSTRACT: Pet Blood Bank UK (PBBUK) is a charity that provides a national canine blood bank. It was launched in 2007. Products and services are available to alt UK veterinary professionals.
Blood is collected from volunteer canine donors who meet and pass rigid screening criteria at organised collection sessions in locations throughout the UK. The blood donated at these sessions is taken to a state-of-the-art processing centre in Loughborough. Leicestershire where it is processed into red blood cells and plasma products. It is then stored in temperature-controlled environments, ready for supply to veterinary practices across the UK 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Author
Jenny Walton BVM&S MRCVS
Jenny qualified from R(D)SVS in 1998. She worked in mixed practice for four years before moving into the field of small animal emergency and critical care with Vets Now, where she worked for 12 years. Through Vets Now, she ran the practical trial researching canine blood banking in 2005-2006.
Jenny is the veterinary supervisor for PBBUK since its launch in 2007. Her role includes advising practitioners daily on the appropriate use of PBB blood products, overseeing the practical and VMD legislative veterinary aspects of blood collection at PBBUK and leading research on future development opportunities. Alongside this role she works part time in general practice.
Keywords: Features, Pet, Bank
To cite this article: Veterinary Nursing Journal • VOL 29 (05) • May 2014 • pp175-177
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