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Bone marrow transplant service

The Bone Marrow Transplant Service is an adult service for the treatment and care of patients undergoing blood and marrow transplantation based at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital

Transplantations in the Royal Hallamshire Hospital started in 1985 and activity has been steadily growing. Training and research are an integral part of the culture and the programme has built national and international reputation in transplantation for autoimmune disorders including multiple sclerosis.

The Programme serves a population of about 2 million. The clinical facility located within the Royal Hallamshire Hospital receives patients from other parts of the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and from following hospital trusts: Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust. The referral pathways and communications with referring hospitals are well established within the South Yorkshire Region Haemato-Oncology Network.

The clinical facilities include two in-patient units:

• Wards P3/P4, with a total of 30 beds, including 10 in-patient HEPA filtered isolation rooms, 2 other en-suite rooms.
• Urgent cases can be assessed in a HEPA filtered receiving room.
• Ward O1 include 17 single rooms, 3 of these HEPA filtered, 1 with dialysis facilities.

The Day Case Unit is located on O floor. Four single rooms are available there for isolation of patients. Facilities for teenagers and young adults are also available.

There is a stem cell collection (apheresis) unit and bone marrow harvesting service at STH providing cells for both STH patients, and on behalf of the Anthony Nolan Trust for patients at other centres in the UK.

There are also 2 flats on Beech Hill Road that are used for ambulatory patients.

Radiotherapy is performed nearby at Weston Park Hospital. Patients can attend daily while hospitalised at Royal Hallamshire Hospital or they can be admitted there.

The transplant programme achieved JACIE accreditation in 2009 and has maintained re-accreditation standards since.
The programme also holds an HTA licence for bone marrow harvest procurement. Since 2012 the clinical programme has, alongside NHSBT Apheresis service, participated in donor Registry collections.

There is a dedicated transplant team of Physicians, Nurses & AHP’s to support patients through their transplant pathway and beyond.

Patients from the South Yorkshire Region who are being considered for BMT will be referred to our service by a haematology consultant, and invited to see a transplant consultant in one of our outpatient clinics.

All patients being considered for BMT are discussed at weekly multidisciplinary team (MDT) meetings in order to plan appropriate, timely, patient-centred treatment.

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