MDT Schedule

Regional HCC MDT – 3rd Wednesday of the month, 1-2pm over Teams

A monthly regional haemoglobinopathy MDT is held on the 3rd Wednesday between 1-2pm. This MDT is cross covering adult and paediatric services. All centres in our region are funded to attend this meeting.

Each meeting includes a short educational session of 15 minutes of broad topics requested by local centres and adapted to the staff attending the meeting.

Indications for patient discussion at MDT meetings

• Patients on transition care pathway
• Regional patients needing specialist haemoglobinopathy input
• Discuss regional haemoglobinopathy cases where treatment requires a Blueteq form
• Cases for haematopoietic transplant discussion
• All cases that might need a National Haemoglobinopathy panel discussion
• All regional cases that are felt to be of learning for regional MDT (shared learning)
• All morbidity and mortality haemoglobinopathy cases (shared learning)

National Haemoglobinopathy Panel (national MDT) – alternating Mondays and Wednesdays towards the end of the month, 4-6pm 

You can find out more about the NHP MDT here.

Other HCC meetings

HCC business meeting – 6 monthly

These meetings are held to govern clinical guidelines and memorandum of agreements, plus discuss incidents, audits and feedback from our regional centres.  

HCC audit meeting – 6 monthly

The Haemoglobinopathy Specialist Service participates in all national haemoglobinopathy audits. We undertake regional and local audits that constitute key performance measures in haemoglobinopathy at regular intervals. Regional audit results and actions are discussed during our bi-annual HCC business meetings. We also hold regular (at least 6 monthly) audit meetings. These are joint by both adult and paediatric team.  

Service review – annual

Our UHBW Haemoglobinopathy Service holds annual service reviews. In this meeting we aim to review our quality standards and assess governance. We will review guidelines, operational policy, staffing, care pathways, new referrals, deaths and complications. In addition, further service developments, audits and data on clinic attendances, hospital admissions, length of stay, transfusions, and other clinical celebrations or challenges will be reviewed. This meeting is combined between paediatric and adult haemoglobinopathy team and includes the clinical and management teams from the respective divisions.