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Chair: Mike Palmer
9.00 Major Haemorrhage – a
laboratory perspective Newcastle Hospitals
NHS Foundation Trust
9.20 How electronic requesting systems for blood products like ICE could be utilised to reduce incidences of TACO
Natalie Hennessy, Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
09.40 HDFN caused by Anti-K
Gemma Harte, Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
10.30 Blood group – Kidd
Martin Maley, University of Sunderland
11.00 Blood Group – MNSs
Dr Tom Bullock, Red Cell
Immunohaematology - NHSBT
11.30 International Blood Group Reference Laboratory (IBGRL)
– finding new blood group antigens Shane Grimsley, International Blood Group Reference Laboratory - NHSBT
12.45 Antibody workshop
Jill Caulfield, NHSBT and Martin Maley, University of Sunderland

09.00 Pathology GIRFT: Next steps and implementing the recommendations
Dr Martin Myers, Dr Marion Wood and Tom Lewis, NHS England & Improvement
09.30 Pathology Quality Assurance Dashboard: The early years Jane Mills and Bruce Daniel, NHS England & Improvement
10.30 UKAS Update: The current challenges and opportunities
Lorraine Turner, UKAS
11.00 Accreditation to support the pandemic response- Private providers of covid 19 sampling and testing
Alyson Bryant, UKAS
11.30 Optimising UKAS Assessments
John Ringrow, UKAS

Chair: Dr Alistair Gammie 9.00 New Strategies or new diseases – capacity building Laura Ryall, UK Health Security Agency
9.30 New strategies for new diseases – crowdsourcing to resolve problems Prof. Jo Martin, NHS England and NHS Improvement
10.30 Pandemic response – from zero to 1 million tests
a day. Innovation, lessons learned and legacy
Melanie Smith, National Infection Service, UK Health Security Agency
11.00 Pandemic response – impact on vaccination programme and virus resurgence
Dr Kevin Brown, UK Health Security Agency
11.30 Pandemic response and impact
– economic impact on research and scientific development
Dr Bethan Hussey, Wellcome Sanger Institute

Chair: Jonathan Evans 9.00 Caring for the UKs first COVID-19 patients
Dr Richard Capstick, South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust
9.20 The June Almeida COVID-19 laboratory set up: lessons learnt Bamidele Farinre, Viapath Analytics, An NHS partnership with SYNLAB
9.40 Hepatitis C - West Midlands Test & Treat Roadshow Philippe Bonnet, Hepatitis C Trust
Outbreak control
10.30 Tattoo and Piercing Infection Cases
Deborah Fenelon, UK Health Security Agency
11.00 COVID-19 - local outbreak control Owen Seddon, Public Health Wales
11.30 Outbreak control: Value of epidemiology & whole-genome sequencing Derren Ready, UK
Health Security Agency

13.00 Introduction
Chantel Hodgson, UK NEQAS Cellular Pathology Technique
13.30 Upper and lower GI Christopher Irving, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
14.15 Gynaecological case studies Kirstie Rice, Black Country Pathology Services, The Royal Wolverhampton Hospital Trust and Gary Player, University Hospital of North Durham
15.45 Skin case studies
Dr Guy Orchard, Viapath Analytics, An NHS Partnership with SYNLAB
16.15 Fluid, Respiratory, Urology case studies
Dr Behdad Shambayati, Berkshire and Surrey Pathology Services
16.45 Breast case studies
Patrick Kumah, University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust

Chair: Poonam Singh
9.00 Silver stains
– shining throughout the years
Al-Amara Rafique, UK NEQAS Cellular Pathology Technique
9.30 Disease models and quantitative pathology in liver research
Dr Tim Kendall, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
10.30 Case studies
– lung carcinoma & cholangitis
Maria Cunningham
11.00 Case studies – LLETZ and gallbladder Jemma Morris, Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
11.30 Best practice
– andrology David Sanders, United Kingdom
Accreditation Service

The hidden dangers in the Victorian home
16.00 Dr Suzy Lishman CBE, Consultant Histopathologist and Lead Medical Examiner, North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust
It is a well-known fact that despite our safety-conscious high-tech lives, most accidents still happen in the home. However, take a moment to think back to our Victorian forefathers and the average home became a horror story of hazards and dangers. From the toxic chemicals used in cleaning and even in home remedies to the contents of paint to
the flammability of construction materials and furnishings; there is no doubt the Victorian home was an absolute death trap.
Dr Suzy Lishman CBE is our guest speaker for the Closing Plenary and will be delivering a presentation on ‘The hidden dangers in the
Victorian home’, which was also the subject of a TV documentary. This is an absolutely fascinating talk that will make sharp knives and boiling chip pans look like child’s play in comparison with what our forebears faced once behind their front doors.

Cervical Screening Programme
Chair: Alison Malkin
9.00 HPV Screening – Four Nations Update:
Wales: Louise Dunk, Public Health Wales
Scotland: Gillian Collins, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde, Queen Elizabeth Univeristy Hospital
Northern Ireland: Jackie Jamieson, Northern Health and Social Care Trust
England: Dr Karin Denton, Severn Pathology, North Bristol NHS Trust
10.30 Molecular Markers for Cervical Screening
Dr Cara Martin, Molecular Pathology Research Group, Trinity College Dublin
11.15 Laboratory Clinical Professional Group
Dr Karin Denton, Severn Pathology, North Bristol NHS Trust
12.45 Cervical Cytology interactive case presentations Peter Heptinstall, North of England Pathology & Screening Education Centre (NEPSEC)

Chair: Andrew Usher
13.00 Degree laboratory placement, the success of the symbiotic relationship
Dr Sue Jones and Dr Claire Wright, York St. John University
13.30 Supporting learning using a virtual environment
Dr Andrew Pember, Carina Consulting Ltd
14.00 Recognising and supporting the role of the laboratory trainers
Dr Mike Carter, Formerly Public Health England
14.30 Too busy to train?
Victoria Moyse, HCA Healthcare
15.45 Spotting qualification fraud
Adam Crosbie, Jisc
16.15 Qualification choices: HSD v MSc Chris Ward, Institute of Biomedical Science
16.45 Opening HSST to biomedical scientists
Dr Jane Needham, IBMS Council

Chair: Andrew Usher
9.00 New HCPC Standards of Proficiency: Changes, emphasis and impact Alan Wainwright, Executive Head of Education, IBMS
9.30 CPD – what can we learn from other professions?
Gary Strong, College of Paramedics
10.30 Band 6 – finding, keeping, developing Penny Feather,
Path Links Pathology
11.00 Challenges of delivering training with a limited scope service Dr Mairiead MacLennan, Victoria Hospital, Kirkcaldy
11.30 Embedding leadership – training people to lead?