Events during March 2022

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

14.30 Diploma of expert Practice in Histological Dissection
Chris Ward, Head of Examinations, IBMS

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

10.30 The National Genomics Test Directory and its implications for cellular pathology laboratories Siobhan Taylor, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Keeley Thwaites, Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust

Chair: Dr Bashir Lwaleed
Haemostasis
9.00 British Society for Haematology Guidelines – platelet function testing
Dr Keith Gomez, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
9.30 British Society for Haematology Guidelines – laboratory assays Peter Baker, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Case studies
10.30 Chimeric Antigen Receptor Therapy (CAR-T) for treatment of haematological malignancies
Dr Carlos Gonzalez Arias, Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
11.00
Immunophenotyping Dr Fiona Clark, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
11.30 P. knowlesi Carly Batson, University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS 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: Professor Sally Culter
9.00 Water quality and public health
- tracking human viruses in the aquatic environment Dr Kata Farkas, Bangor University, Wales 9.30 Update to enterovirus infections Dr Heli Harvala, NHS Blood and Transplant, Colindale
Transplantation
10.30 Transfusion and Transplantation
– Update on testing strategies
Vicki Maddox, NHS Blood & Transplant
11.00
Microbiological safety of organs for transplantation
– assessing the risk– benefit balance,
Dr Ines Ishiro-Lumb, NHS Blood & Transplant
11.30
Transplantation – virology clinical case studies
Dr Stephen Pettit, Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Andrology
Chair: Gary Collins
14.00 Is that allowed? Breaking the stereotypes of a Healthcare Scientist Stuart Long, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
14.30 After the diagnosis – patient options after an unfavourable result Stephanie Brooks, The Hewitt Fertility Centre, Liverpool Women’s Hospital
15.00 Bringing about changes to reduce the number of failed vasectomies
Lesley Walsh, Wrightington, Wigan & Leigh NHS Foundation Trust

HORIBA UK organises a webinar series on haematology and point-of-care. The sessions will be held on 29th and 31st of March and will offer participants the opportunity to discuss how to enable better diagnosis in haematology and point of care.

Day 1 is dedicated to quality control and a number of interesting haematology cases.

On day 2, the guest speakers will discuss the use of point-of-care instruments in busy departments and in the community. They will also discuss how point-of-care can improve patients pathways in acute and secondary care, and what are the key elements for an effective point-of-care governance.