National Health Circulars

England
In November 2007, the Chief Medical Officer for NHS England published a new Health Circular for 'Better Blood Transfusion, Appropriate use of blood' replacing and building upon the previous two circulars published in 1998 (HSC 1998/224) and 2002 (HSC 2002/009).
The new circular is available here: HSC 2007/001

Scotland
To date NHSS has not replaced the circular issued in 2003. Should they issue a new circular on 'Better Blood Transfusion' we will update the download available from this site.
Meanwhile, the latest Scottish circular can be downloaded here: NHSS BBT HDL2003

Wales
To date the Welsh Assembly Government have not replaced the circular issued in 2002. Should they issue a new circular on 'Better Blood Transfusion' we will update the download available from this site.Meanwhile, the latest Welsh Health circular can be downloaded here: WHC (2002) 137