Events in 2023

CONGRESS 2023 - HR and OH departments – how to work with them to achieve the best results

27/09/2023
HR and OH departments – how to work with them to achieve the best results

CONGRESS 2023 - Transient Abnormal Myelopoiesis

27/09/2023
Transient Abnormal Myelopoiesis

CONGRESS 2023 -

27/09/2023
Problems can happen when we least expect them. Loss of a key building, a cyber-attack or a system failure, interruption to a utility supply, severe weather, critical equipment failure, supply chain disruption or even a significant loss of staff. Sooner or later every organization will need to deal with issues like these and if there's no plan the outcomes could be far worse than they need to be. This is why services must maintain a critical incident response plan and a wide range of business continuity plans, having a structured approach for managing these unplanned disruptions.

Business continuity planning is just one part of a much bigger risk management process. We prepare for emergencies, not just because we're legally required to do so, but because patients, donors, and the wider NHS rely on our services being available every day.

There are four main scenarios all good business continuity plans should consider:

Loss of staff
Loss of the workplace
Loss of equipment and consumables and
Loss of ICT systems
The process should be one of a cycle of preparedness including

Risk Management or identification
Planning
Training
Exercising
Lessons identified

CONGRESS 2023 - Transforming your pathology workforce

27/09/2023
Join your network workforce leads/practice educators for a solution focused discussion around workforce challenges. Find out about current education and development opportunities with specific emphasis on support workers, advanced clinical practice and leadership. We welcome your participation in helping to shape the future of your pathology workforce.

You are invited by the speakers to complete this online form before the presentation

CONGRESS 2023 - Idiopathic Membranous Nephropathy: PLA2 and beyond

27/09/2023
Idiopathic Membranous Nephropathy: PLA2 and beyond

CONGRESS 2023 - The role of a Regional Newborn Screening laboratory

27/09/2023
Newborn screening (NBS) is an essential public health strategy aimed at identifying newborn babies that are affected by certain genetic, metabolic and infectious conditions. NBS enables the early detection and management of several congenital disorders, which if left untreated, may lead to mental retardation and/or death. Early diagnosis and instigation of treatment, along with appropriate long-term care help ensure normal growth and development of the affected individual.

The Sheffield Regional NBS Laboratory is one of the largest newborn screening laboratories in the UK testing around 65,000 newborn bloodspot samples per year and has been an integral part of routine newborn care for the region of South Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and East Midlands. Newborn screening in the United Kingdom now includes screening for 10 conditions including multiple metabolic, haemoglobinopathies and only recently severe combined immunodeficiency - all detectable though multiplex laboratory procedures.

This presentation will briefly review the implementation of newborn screening in the region, including a brief history and justification for newborn screening, laboratory detection and diagnosis of the screening condition, the referral pathway/notification to a regional consultant paediatrician for initiation of treatment of the condition/follow up testing and conclude with a case study.

CONGRESS 2023 - Effects of direct thrombin inhibitors [dabigatran/argatroban/bivalirudin] on tests of haemostasis

27/09/2023
Effects of direct thrombin inhibitors [dabigatran/argatroban/bivalirudin] on tests of haemostasis

CONGRESS 2023 - Guided relaxation session

27/09/2023
Guided relaxation session

CONGRESS 2023 - Whats new in Diagnostic Cytology (Reporting systems; biomarker testing)

27/09/2023
Whats new in Diagnostic Cytology (Reporting systems; biomarker testing)

CONGRESS 2023 - How to train your dragon . . . not to harm your workforce

27/09/2023
How to train your dragon . . . not to harm your workforce