Donor Preference Survey

• Research type

  Research Study

• Full title

  Economic evaluation of alternative strategies for maintaining the supply of blood to the NHS – Survey of blood donors previously enrolled in the INTERVAL trial

• IRAS ID

  209183

• Contact name

  Richard Grieve

• Sponsor organisation

  NHS Blood and Transplant

• Duration of Study in the UK

  0 years, 5 months, 30 days

• Research summary

  The purpose is to identify the value for money of alternative strategies for maintaining the supply of blood.

  Blood transfusions are an important aspect of NHS care and the National Blood and Transplant service (NHSBT) supplies more products each year than any other NHS organisation. In the future there may be insufficient blood, and research into alternative strategies for collecting blood is a high NHSBT priority. NHSBT has funded the INTERVAL trial to find out whether reducing the minimum interval between donations is safe and effective.

  The NIHR has funded this study to:

  1. Estimate the cost-effectiveness of reducing the interval between donations.
  2. Investigate the frequency with which donors are willing to donate blood according to alternative future changes to the blood collection service
  3. Estimate the cost-effectiveness of alternative strategies for maintaining the supply of blood to the NHS.

  This proposal relates to an online survey of current whole-blood donors who were previously enrolled in the INTERVAL trial to investigate their willingness to donate blood under possible future changes to the blood service e.g. extending donation venues’ opening times. A similar survey has previously been undertaken with donors who did not participate in the INTERVAL trial.

  Information from the anonymised results of the survey will be used in conjunction with anonymised data from both NHSBT’s register of existing blood donors and the INTERVAL trial, to predict the volume of whole-blood that will be donated under future changes to the blood service.

  A cost-effectiveness analysis will predict the costs and cost-effectiveness of alternative blood collection strategies over a five year time horizon.

• REC name

  Yorkshire & The Humber - Bradford Leeds Research Ethics Committee

• REC reference

  16/YH/0439

• Date of REC Opinion

  4 Oct 2016

• REC opinion

  Favourable Opinion