OUR MISSION STATEMENT:
Optimizing Medical and Surgical Outcomes through Comprehensive Patient Blood Management

OUR PHILOSOPHY:
The haemopoietic system and its circulatory products are pivotal for the healthy function of the human organism.

The Medical Society for Patient Blood Management is committed to ensuring that this unique and vital human resource is appropriately managed and maintained in health and disease. To this end the Society promotes scientifically based medical and surgical blood management techniques aimed at conserving a patient’s own blood and minimizing or avoiding the need for the transfusion of allogeneic blood components.

The Society acknowledges that altruistically donated allogeneic blood, given in trust, is a valuable community resource. However, it is a costly resource with significant potential for adverse clinical outcomes. Accordingly, it should only be used as therapy with patient consent when there is evidence for potential benefit, there are no alternatives, and the risks are appropriately considered and balanced against the benefits.

In this context the Society, as a multidisciplinary organization, is committed to aligning the best medical evidence with ethical and economic considerations that ensure that blood management related therapies are appropriately assessed for cost effectiveness, with patients’ choices and blood donors’ trust being respected.