TMAG’s mandate is to provide the BC Ministry of Health with ongoing and timely advice on:
•The design and implementation of cost-effective, high quality, patient focused transfusion medicine that will best serve the patients of British Columbia;
•The design and implementation of cost-effective blood utilization management initiatives;
•Responses during real or perceived crises or emergency situations;
•The development of blood program related policies and priority setting;
•The emerging scientific issues related to quality, safety of blood and blood products and the ongoing surveillance of tranfusion related adverse events;
•Training, continuing education and professional development for physicians and other professionals engaged in the practice of transfusion medicine; and
•The regulations, standards and procedures of the Canadian blood system.