Experience of Myeloproliferative Neoplasms Guidelines in the United Kingdom: Perspective and International Context

The UK hematology community has an established process for identifying the need for a guideline, producing and disseminating it. TheBritish Committee for standards in Haematology (BCSH) was formed in 1964with the first published guideline in 1984. . The resultant library of documents includes aspects of laboratory practice in areas such as blood transfusion to highly complex clinical management guidelines. These are published in peer review journals but are also available via a web based platform with free access (http://www.bcshguidelines.com). In this article we discuss the process and history of the production of these guidelines with particular reference to those for myeloproliferative neoplasms.