The office of the chief scientific
officer sent their update today. You can read it by
clicking here. Someone has clearly gone to a lot of time and effort to come
up with something which looks very impressive… to the layman.
Take for example the article on genotyping
testing for people who have sickle cell disorder, thalassaemia and rare
inherited transfusion-dependant rare anaemias in England. This isn’t new. This has
been going on for ages. It sounds really impressive and it is a very good idea
to provide blood which is as close a match to the recipient as possible.
However this initiative does nothing to address the shortage of donors. It is
all very well knowing the Kell, Duffy, Kidd, MNSs, Rh, Dombrock, Auberger and
McCoy groups of the recipient. But knowing them does nothing to provide identical
blood.
I really don’t want to appear negative but more and more my CPD is an ongoing tirade about how little use various people’s
efforts are to me. Very self-centred of me, I know…
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