EuroNet-TMS, the European network of transfusion medicine

societies, covers the 25 countries in the Union and

has three objectives:

- to allow the emergence of a medical and scientific

Europe in matters of blood transfusion;

- to coordinate the activities of professionals in the

European Union so as to improve practices and decision-making;

- to develop programmes to promote interactive

exchanges of information between all participants.

The first task undertaken by EuroNet-TMS was to draw up

a non-exhaustive appraisal of the state of blood transfusion

in the countries of the European Union, which lead to

this White Book, a preliminary assessment which will serve

to build for the future on a medical and scientific basis. Its

19 chapters deal with the institutional background, existing

European structures and the prospects for blood

transfusion over the next ten years.