The BSH Guidelines Official Podcast

Dr Aisling Barrett discusses the guideline on Assessment of fitness for bleomycin use and management of bleomycin pulmonary toxicity in patients with classical Hodgkin lymphoma    

Professor Martin Kaiser & Dr Ceri Bygrave discuss the Advanced imaging for earlier diagnosis and morbidity prevention in multiple myeloma guideline.    

Professor Martin Kaiser and Dr Matthew Jenner discuss the BSH Good Practice Paper for the diagnosis and initial treatment of transplant-eligible high-risk myeloma patients, published in July 2024.

Dr Amma Kyei Mensah, Dr Sarah Nicolle and Dr Farrukh Shah discuss the BSH Guideline for the management of conception and pregnancy in thalassaemia syndromes, published in 2024.      

Professor Guy Pratt discusses the investigation, diagnosis and management of smouldering myeloma. This podcast is based on the British Society for Haematology’s 2024 Good Practice Paper, Diagnosis and management of smouldering myeloma. 

This guidance update from the BSH is focussed primarily on non-surgical invasive procedures, simply termed ‘procedures’ in this document, with the primary objective of giving pragmatic advice where evidence is limited. This guidance also aims to reduce unnecessary laboratory testing, inappropriate use of blood products and unnecessary delays in therapeutic procedures. 1  It should be read in conju...

Podcast by Dr Donal P. McLornan on The management of myelofibrosis.    

Since the last version of the BCSH (British Committee for Standards in Haematology) Guidelines for Specification, implementation and management of  Information Technology (IT) in hospital transfusion laboratories was published1 there has been continued development in IT applications for use in transfusion medicine. IT has made a major contribution to blood safety throughout the transfusion chain,...

A podcast recording by Dr Deepa J. Arachchillage on the guideline: Diagnosis and management of heparin-induced thrombocytopenia: Third edition.      

The objective of this podcast presented by Kim Linton and Renata Walewska is to provide healthcare professionals with clear guidance on the diagnosis and management of patients with marginal zone lymphoma (MZL).  

Guideline on the Investigation and management of a raised serum ferritin: A podcast recording of a conversation between Dr Jenny Tam and Dr Wayne Thomas.

Antenatal screening/testing of pregnant women should be carried out according to the guidelines of the National Health Service (NHS) Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia Screening Programme. Newborn screening and, when necessary, follow-up testing and referral, should be carried out according to the guidelines of the NHS Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia Screening Programme. All babies under 1 year of age arri...

The objective of this guideline is to provide healthcare professionals with clear guidance on the diagnosis and management of patients with mantle cell lymphoma.

This Good Practice Paper podcast provides recommendations for the diagnosis, risk stratification and management of the monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS). It describes the recently recognised entity of the monoclonal gammopathy of clinical significance (MGCS), and recommends how it should be managed. The potential for targeted population screening for MGUS is also discussed....

Haematological management of major haemorrhage: A podcast recording of a conversation between Prof Simon Stanworth and Dr Heidi Doughty.

A BSH Guideline on the Anticoagulant management of pregnant individuals with mechanical heart valves presented by Dr Will Lester.

Guideline session at EHA Conference 2022 on The Use of Next-generation Sequencing in the Diagnosis of Rare Inherited Anaemias: A Joint BSH/EHA Good Practice Paper

Secondary central nervous system (CNS) lymphoma (SCNSL) refers to lymphoma that has spread to the CNS concurrently with, or following treatment for, systemic lymphoma. There are three clinically distinct scenarios: Synchronous CNS and systemic lymphoma at initial presentation (treatment-naïve; TN-SCNSL), CNS relapse without recurrent systemic lymphoma (relapsed isolated CNS lymphoma; RI-SCNSL). Re...

This guideline updates and widens the scope of the previous British Society for Haematology (BSH) Clinical guidelines for testing for heritable thrombophilia 1  to include both heritable and acquired thrombophilia. The term thrombophilia is generally used to describe hereditary and/or acquired conditions associated with an increased predisposition to thrombosis. Heritable thrombophilia refers to g...

Audio commentary from Dr Mike Dennis on the good practice paper - management of older patients with frailty and acute myeloid leukaemia. 

Audio commentary by Dr George Follows.

British Society for Haematology Annual Scientific Meeting Guidelines Session 2022   Dr Suzy Morton on the Good Practice Paper Cytomegalovirus serological testing in potential allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients.   Dr Suzy Morton is a Consultant in clinical haematology and blood transfusion at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, University Hospitals Birmingham and NHS Blood and Tran...