Transcript Pathology Programme News Edition 1

Pathology Programme News
1st February 2011
No. 20
National Pathology Programme Board (NPPB)
All Wales Training Events
The NPPB meets next on 30th March 2011 and
the other All Wales groups will be meeting during
the period February / March as follows:
In order to reduce duplication of effort and maximise
access to local expertise within Pathology
departments in Wales, a number of All Wales training
events are being planned to take place during 2011.
Please speak to your service manager if you would
like to attend any of the training events.
Dates secured so far are as follows:
4th February
11th March
15th March
16th March
30th March
POCT Coordinators’ Group
HTA Designated Individuals Group
Quality Managers’ Group
Laboratory Managers’ Group
National Pathology Programme
Board
Colleagues from all Health Boards and national
services are welcome to participate in programme
activities and attend the various meetings,
workshops and training events which take place
regularly. Your representatives on the NPPB and
other All Wales groups, including those involved in
discipline standardisation for the LIMS, will provide
feedback at your local department meetings.
Please get in touch if you have any queries. The
level of service engagement in National Pathology
Programme activities is excellent with opportunities
to collaborate with colleagues and save duplicating
effort being one of the major benefits participants
derive from their involvement.
Laboratory Information Management System
Configuration of the All Wales LIMS is currently
underway with NWIS, Intersystems and Pathology
colleagues working in partnership. Please look out
for and make every effort to attend the workshops
which will be held to demonstrate and obtain feedback on
the build at key points. Further information on the LIMS
and related IT projects is available on the NWIS website
www.wales.nhs.uk/nwis
The LIMS Implementation Board meets next on
Thursday 3rd February. LIMS implementation
project leads from All Health Boards and national
services form the core membership of the LIMS
Implementation Board and will provide feedback at
your local Pathology service meetings. The flexible
nature of the new LIMS provides exciting
opportunities to integrate services and do things in
new ways. Please take every opportunity to
participate in your local LIMS readiness project and
help shape the future service in your organisation.
18th March
25th March
5th April
Anatomical Pathology Technician
training day
Adult Post Mortem Consent training
APT training day (repeat of 18/03)
Training in carrying out audit for those with
responsibility for Quality Management within their
organisation is also being arranged. Details of this
will be circulated via the Quality Managers’ Group.
All Wales User Survey
An All Wales survey of internal secondary care users
of Pathology services is currently underway. The
questionnaire has been developed by the Pathology
Quality Managers’ Group and is available online at
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/RN3Q9FM. The
link has been distributed through Quality Managers.
Please encourage colleagues who request tests to
complete the survey as User Satisfaction is a vital
indicator of service quality and survey results will be
valuable to you and your colleagues both to inform
future service planning and delivery and to help
identify where there are communication and
education needs amongst your service users. Survey
responses will enable an index of satisfaction to be
calculated for individual sites, Health Boards and on
an All Wales level.
“Do Once and Share”
Please visit www.nliah.com/portal to access the
Pathology Community website, where you’ll find
Resources, case studies and other material
contributed by colleagues to reduce duplication of
effort and help stimulate ideas for further sharing,
learning and collaboration.
Margie Fielden, Pathology Programme Manager,
02920 207615 or [email protected]