September 25 2008

The NHSBT Board at its meeting today expressed its thanks to all of the teams involved in the successful completion of the PULSE consolidation project. The extract from the relevant Board paper reads:

...The consolidation of three regional Pulse databases onto a single national database has now been successfully completed. Since 3 August NHSBT has been operating across all aspects of blood donation and processing, testing and issue with a single national database. The minor (and non-critical) technical issues that were seen post consolidation have now been resolved and work is now focused on cleansing duplicate data. The success of this major project, a long held ambition for NHSBT and its predecessor organisations, is attributable to the hard work and professionalism of the blood service operational groups, QA, IT and our external suppliers Savant, HP and MIMER...

There was genuine appreciation for the effort that went into this project. A long standing non-executive members of the Board was particularly pleased as it was recognised that this was a long held ambition of NHSBT and the NBA before it.