Northern Ireland
- Date:
- 1996
- Reference:
- SA/HHC/P
- Part of:
- Harrison-Howell Blood Transfusion Collection
- Archives and manuscripts
About this work
Publication/Creation
1996
Physical description
1 file
Biographical note
Dr (later Sir) Thomas H Houston gained considerable experience in treatment with transfusion during World War I, and on return to Belfast set up a voluntary blood transfusion service based at the Royal Victoria Hospital. With the outbreak of World War II, the government set up an Emergency Blood Transfusion Service in the Royal Hospital. The Northern Ireland Blood Transfusion Service was established in Nov 1946. The laboratories were housed at the Royal Victoria Hospital, moving to Belfast City Hospital in 1961 and then to a refurbished centre in Durham Street, where laboratories and donor organisation were amalgamated, 1970. In 1995 the NIBTS moved to a purpose-designed transfusion centre on the campus of Belfast City Hospital, and established as an independent agency responsible to the Northern Ireland Health and Social Services Agency