About Ontario Regional Blood Coordinating Network

Mandate

The Ontario Regional Blood Coordinating Network initiative will take a comprehensive and integrated approach to blood management including:

1. Reviewing and investigating blood and blood product utilization on a provincial scale with the intent to address variances in practice;
2. Implementing a communication strategy with hospitals and other stakeholders that use blood and blood products in order to disseminate educational tools, promote best practices, develop a mechanism for hospital feedback and foster and maintain timely two-way communication on blood related matters;
3. Being a resource to hospitals and other organizations that use blood and blood products; and
4. Assisting the BPCO; by providing support on provincial projects, information on regional activities and concerns on blood related matters.

The development of the Ontario Regional Blood Coordinating Network is not intended to replace or duplicate existing structures, but to support and enhance the planning, coordination and integration already being undertaken within the province with respect to blood transfusion service delivery.

ORBCoN’s Mission

Inspiring and facilitating best transfusion practices in Ontario.

ORBCoN’s Vision

We will be an innovative and valuable resource for promoting appropriate, standardized and safe transfusion practices.

ORBCoN’s Values

• Patient Safety
  We promote optimal transfusion practices for the best patient care

• Accountability
  We share accountability with CBS and our hospital partners to ensure safe and appropriate transfusion practices

• Collaboration
  We cultivate partnerships throughout the blood system

• Stakeholders
  We proactively respond to the diverse needs of our stakeholders

• Knowledge Transfer
  We disseminate educational initiatives to encourage excellence in transfusion practice
  

Conclusions

We welcome your queries and comments, and we are looking forward to working with existing provincial colleagues and fellow Transfusionists from across Canada.

For more detailed information on ORBCoN and projects underway, if you are a health care professional working in Transfusion Medicine, please register to access the members section of this website for more details.