And Health Canada has agreed to quietly request the Canadian blood services (CBS) to change the blood donor screening form after a two-year pilot project, CBC News.
The new model, approved by the Ministry of health in Canada on November 6, you will see "multi-skilled staff clinic" perform all the functions of the clinic from entering – a needle in the vein of donor screening – instead of a registered nurse.
What began as a pilot project in 2009, form an associate donor care, "aims to edit registered nurses, who are in short supply, to do other work.
According to CBS, this model is in use by other operators in the United States and the United Kingdom.
Debbie said Rempel, Director of donor services clinic in "Canadian blood services", CBC News did not change blood donor screening criteria.
"We have changed how we screen a blood donor, all we really have changed that," Rempel said.
But he said Vicki McKenna, Vice President of the Association of nurses in Ontario, "CBC News the new model raises safety concerns.
Anyone "health history did not clearly define the questionnaire. Often the donor assessment perhaps keyword or phrase they use, which will cause the nurse to engage more in their history, "McKenna said.
Canadian blood services is a non profit foundation, charity, whose mission is to manage the blood and blood products supply for Canadians outside Quebec.
Network CBS after the scandal of contaminated blood in the 1980s where thousands of innocent Canadians contracted HIV and hepatitis c through transfusions of infected blood.
Douglas Elliott, representing the Canadian AIDS society, from 1993 to 1997, before the "kriver" investigation on the blood system in Canada paid for blood supply safer and better.
Today, Elliott is concerned about the motives behind these changes.
"I don't see how replace nurses [recorded] improves safety. It can reduce costs, "said Elliott, now a founding partner with litigation from Roy Elliott Kim O'Connor (llp) based in Toronto.
"There's nothing wrong with the blood system is efficient and cost-effective, but you have to make sure that you don't put the cost savings before safety," said Elliott.
Analysis of the pilot project, which included more than 20,000 donors "don't compromise safety through examination of donors with trained personnel other than registered nurses," according to a press release issued by CBS.
But the results of this analysis did not become General and the Ministry of health in Canada and has not made an official announcement about the donor screening changes.
"We have the safest blood supply system in place," Health Minister Leona aglokak CBC News in Iqaluit last Friday.
Aglokak said the new system "expands the scope of practice of other professionals who are only able to [registered nurses] and frees nurses in other areas".
The new model is expected to roll out across the country in the coming months.
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