• name
• date of birth
• address as well as this information you’ll need to fill in a questionnaire when you go to give a donation this questionnaire …show more content…
will ask questions about any relevant recent interactions with others that could lead to getting an infectious disease such as aids that could be passed through your donated blood to the persons receiving the donation . This information can be accessed by you as it is stored on the blood donor register this can be accessed at the site my.blood.co.uk using this website you can access your personal details as well you are a registered blood donor this site is used by the NHSBT to access your information so that they can contact you if there any issues with your donation such as if you have be proven to have HIV. This information is taken as it will be used to support your direct care and this information may need to be shared with other NHS organisations or professionals that are involved on your care however sometimes your data may be used by staff outside of clinical, but this is usually only used to audit and improve services or maybe be used to investigate any complaints or incidents. Pseudonymised and anonymised data are used for research this data doesn’t identify and instead gives a number than a name. your identifiable data will not be used for research without your consent. The processing of your data is necessary under unit 6 e and 9 h of the GDPR unit 6 e states that: ‘processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller’(direct quote from https://gdpr-info.eu/art-6-gdpr/) and 9 h this states that: ‘processing is necessary for the purposes of preventive or occupational medicine for the assessment of the working capacity of the employee, medical diagnosis, the provision of health or social care systems and service on the basis of union or member’ (direct quote from https://gdpr-info.eu/art-9-gdpr/) you are only registered to the organ donor register if you give your consent and if you remove your consent at any time you’ll be removed form the register if you remove consent.
The NHSBT also has more obligations under the blood safety and quality regulations of 2005 tissue and cell quality and safety regulations 2007 and organ quality and safety regulations 2012 this is to ensure that all of the organ transplants and blood donations are traceable from the donor to recipient this is a requirement to deliver safe clinical care as well as giving a time range for the length of time to keep the by-products form the blood transfusion. The NHSBT needs to obtain accurate and complete information from everyone who use their services this is done to make sure the delivery is safe healthcare and ensure their services are equitable they also use the data they receive to improve the quality of there service and advance there
scientific and clinical understanding and study through audit research and inspections. If you are a blood donor you’ll be asked to provide additional contact details such as an email address and phone number this is so that the NHSBT can provide timely communication to inform the donor when donor appointments are available preparing your donation and informing you your donation was issued. Whenever you use a health or care service for instance if you where to attend accident & emergency or using community care services important information about you is collected this is to ensure you’ll get the best possible care and treatment. This information that is collected can also be provided to other approved organisations where there is a legal basis to help with planning services improving care provided research into developing new treatments and care for you your family and future generations confidential personal information about your health and care, but your information would only be used in ways allowed by the law and never be used for insurance or marketing purposes without your consent. When you donate blood, your donation is given a unique reference number. All of your personal data are removed such as your name and address and this is done before it is sent to the hospital. The NHSBT will only share your data outside the organisation if there is legal reasoning behind it and in most cases, you’d be informed of this happening. The NHSBT works with third parties to provide services to support their work for instance telecommunications ICT support and communications all companies that have access to the NHSBT’s collected data go through a strict series of data protection and regulation. The donors can request what organisations your data has been shared with by emailing mailto:customer.services@nhsbt.nhs.uk. The NHSBT can only retain the records for a period of 30 years these include the identification of each single blood donation and each single blood unit and its components.
The blood you donate is broken down into different components these are the red blood cells the white blood cells platelets and plasma these are all used for different reasons:
Red blood cells:
These are used to treat different kinds of anaemia (this is when people have a low haemoglobin count) including it forming as a result rheumatoid arthritis or cancer or it is forming when the red blood cells in a new-born are broken down and the formation of anaemia could also be caused by sickle cell diseases. Red blood cells can also be used to replace the heavy blood loss that can occur in an accident during surgery or in childbirth.
White blood cells:
Due to the fact that white blood cells make up part of the bodies immune system there to patients suffering from an infection that has the possibility of being fatal as well as their normal defence mechanism don’t seem to be responding to any medication.
Platelets:
Platelets are a crucial part in helping blood clot this is done by them clumping together to stop bleeding after an injury these are used to treat cases of bone marrow failure or following a transplant or chemotherapy treatments and to treat leukaemia.
Plasma:
Plasma is a fluid that carries all blood cell components plasma has a high amount of proteins in it as well as substances that are important ingredients in medical procedures in plasma there is : albumin this is a protein useful for treating kidney and liver disease. Clotting factors these are used to treat types of haemophilia and diseases where blood doesn’t clot properly immunoglobins these anti bodies help protect against infections. In the health care part of the scientific industry there is large amounts of data being collected managed and used every day it is required that there is an accurate and fast flow of information as good patient care depends on this. There is a job that entails the obtaining useful information from this large amount of data these are called health informatics professional they are an important part of the health care team as you need to be an expert on patient information and the latest technology that will others rely on to do their jobs whether the job is to provide technical support or to deliver the easily understandable ICT projects these staff are also responsible for the nonstop cycle of data that all of the members of the healthcare team including healthcare professionals managers and administrators rely on fast accurate information to deliver the best care they can using IT to achieve this means that health informatics professionals are a important part of the health care system as without them the health care team could become ineffective.