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[Year] Feb 1998 [Description] Oxford, Bristol: It was discovered that hospitals were being issued with different bags of blood bearing the same six-figure bar code identification numbers, suggesting the same contents. The problem could be easily solved by upgrading hospital computer systems, but hospitals lack sufficient funds. The National Blood Service has long recognised the issue and, following Government funding to install a new computer system, it has switched to an internationally used 15-figure system. However, as hospitals have no provision in their budget to upgrade systems to read the new longer bar codes, the blood bags are currently being identified through the old six digit codes placed alongside the newer coding. [References] Computing Feb 11, 1998 [Name] 
Errors in blood bar coding
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