Events on 17 March 2022

Chair: Tonya Bacon
9.00 Cryoprotein analysis – A UK NEQAS update Dina Patel, UK
NEQAS Immunology, Sheffield
9.30 Investigating cryoproteins – are we offering the best service possible?
Dr Rachel Wheeler, South West London Pathology
10.30 Assay trouble shooting – case study
Penny Feather, Scunthorpe General Hospital
11.00 Goodpastures case study
Faye Sims, Peterborough City Hospital
11.30 Breaking news in Immunology
Dr Graeme Wild, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Chair: Phillipa Burns 14.00 Importance of
oral microbiology Dr Riina Richardson, University of Manchester
14.30 Challenges in diagnosis and management of a case of COVID- associated pulmonary
Aspergillosis (CAPA) on an intensive care unit Jennifer Ratner,
The Mid-Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust
15.00 Improving training in parasitology Jemma Mangan-
Casbon, Nottingham Trent University

Chair: Mark Cioni 9.00 Anaerobes – update and important developments Trefor Morris, Public Health Wales
9.30 The great and recurrent
questions regarding Clostridioides dif?cile Michael Perry, Public Health Wales
10.30 Impact of HG3 organisms not
being suspected from clinical resulting in processing at CL2 Michelle Peters, Public Health Wales
11.00 Microbiome- associated metabolites and the gut–brain axis
Prof. Lesley Hoyles, Nottingham Trent University
11.30 Whole-genome sequencing in Microbiology
Prof. Thomas Connor, Cardiff University

Chair: Nicky
Hollowood
14.00 Molecular advances in POCT testing
14.30 CEP in
POCT – value of the qualification
Lee Peters, Swansea Bay University Health Board
15.00 Teaching and training of POCT for non-laboratory staff Michelle Payne, University of Sunderland

Chair: Dr Sarah Glover
9.00 POCT in pathology networks
Lisa Vipond, Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust
9.30 How COVID-19 has accelerated the POCT landscape David Ryder, University
Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust
10.30 POCT: Benefit to users and practical outcomes for patients
11.00 POCT in the anticoagulant service Leanne Cross and Beverley Straker- Bennett, Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
11.30 Implementing and managing quality control in a multi- professional POCT team Liz Berry, North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS
Foundation Trust

14.00 Ensuring quality in an emergency situation Jessica Dixon, Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
14.30 Remote auditing
David Wilson, IBMS Specialist Advisor, Immunology 15.00 Patient results – are they as accurate as they can be?
Clare Morris, National Institute for Biological Standards and Controls

9.00 ISO 15189 it’s all about the patient: What to expect from the new version
Dr David Ricketts Health Services Laboratories LLP
9.30 Quality for the patient, not just for the sake of it Shauna McAulay, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust
10.30 Learning from excellence - recognising when things go right
Dr Adrian Plunkett, Learning from Excellence, Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust
11.00 Investigation of serious incidents
– what to do when things go wrong Nigel Coles, Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust
11.30 Maintaining quality while working from home
Gary Collins, University Hospital Crosshouse

Chair: Katherine Philpott
14.00 Use of thromboelastography in guiding blood component/product requirements Daniella Winterburn, South Tees Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 14.30 Patient Blood Management – what does this mean? Lisa McKain, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
15.00 British Society for Haematology information technology guidelines update Julie Staves, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Chair: Anne Lockhart 9.00 Network development – staffing issues
Rashmi Rook, formerly of Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
9.30 The challenges of multi-disciplinary staff competencies on a spoke site
Catherine Lorenzen, East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust
10.30 Major haemorrhage protocols
Dr Ric Procter, South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
11.00 Major incident plans
Karen Madgwick, North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust
11.30 Laboratory errors in Transfusion Dr Shruthi Narayan, Serious Hazards of Transfusion (SHOT)
12.45 Antibody workshop
Jill Caulfield, NHSBT and Martin Maley, University of Sunderland

Chair: Peter Hitchcock Virus vaccines
14.00 Vaccine hesitancy – causes and effects Dr Rajeka Lazarus, University Hospital Bristol & Weston
14.30 Vaccine development and production
Tony Hitchcock, Cobra Biologics
15.00 Virus Vaccines
- SARS-CoV-2
vaccines – a regional perspective Dr Eleanor Powers, NHS England and Improvement, East of
England