Is your patient suitable to be included in the Australian Haemochromatosis Register? Please review using this link. Register - Haemochromatosis Australia
Please note that the App was updated on 25/8/2025 and some questions have been modified. It is now a requirement for patients with polycythaemia vera or porphyria cutanea tarda to have an initial and then annual specialist referrals provided.
Patients with iron overload due to causes other than the HFE variants C282Y homozygosity and C282Y/H63D compound heterozygosity will need to have evidence of iron overload provided to be accepted by Lifeblood. (Hepatic iron concentration measured by MRI or liver biopsy)
For assistance please contact the Helpdesk: therapeutichelpdesk@redcrossblood.org.au or 1300 669 054
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The personal information that you enter on this electronic application allows your patient to be registered and enrolled as a Lifeblood therapeutic or normal volunteer blood donor, and for the person to be registered to provide blood for clinical use when donor selection guidelines are met. No personal information will be stored on the therapeutic application. Lifeblood will handle all information received in the strictest confidence in accordance with the Federal Privacy Law.