Frontiers in Laboratory Medicine
Programme from 2012 Meeting
Austin Court, Birmingham

2012 Full Programme Brochure (PDF)

DAY ONE - Tuesday, 31st January

0900 Introduction and Welcome
Michael Thomas, President ACB and
Robert Michel, The Dark Report, Inc., USA

STRATEGY FOR PATHOLOGY

0910 Strategic direction of UK Pathology
Ian Barnes, National Clinical Director of Pathology, Department of Health, UK

0945 Quality assurance through GP commissioning
Paul Zollinger-Reid, Chief Executive, NHS Cambridgeshire, UK

1020 Question time – how do we deliver a joined up service for patients?

Chair: Mike Thomas, ACB President, UK

Ian Barnes, National Clinical Director of Pathology,
Department of Health, UK

Julian Barth, Leeds General Infirmary, UK

Paul Zollinger-Reid, Chief Executive, NHS

Cambridgeshire, UK

Archie Prentice, President-elect, Royal College of Pathologists, UK

1100 Morning coffee/tea break

1120 What influences the successfulness of transformational change?
Helen Bevan, Director of Service Transformation at the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement, UK

1230 Lunch

PRIMARY CARE AND PATHOLOGY

1330 Primary care integration and the affect on pathology
James Crawford, Chair of Pathology & Lab

1400 Influencing primary care clinical practice
Stuart Smellie, Consultant Chemical Pathologist in the County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust and Head of the South Durham Laboratories, UK

Hemal Desai, linical Adviser to the Strategic Projects Team, NHS Midlands and East, UK

1500 Panel discussion – is pathology ready to deliver what primary care needs?

1530 Afternoon Coffee/Tea Break

PATIENT CENTRED PATHOLOGY

1550 Integrated diabetes care
Speaker to be confirmed

1620 The perfect patient service centre
Leo Serrano, Director of Laboratory Services, Avera McKennan Hospital and University Health Centre, Sioux Falls, USA

1700 Close

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DAY TWO - Wednesday, 1st February

BREAKFAST WORKSHOPS

0730-0830 (breakfast will be provided)

1. Multidisciplinary working in a multi-site DGH
Shirley Spoors, Consultant Clinical Scientist,
Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospital NHS Trust, UK

2. Successes and failures in reorganisation
Neil Anderson, Director of Coventry and
Warwickshire Pathology Services, UK

3. Development of care pathways
Nigel Lawson, Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation
Trust, UK
Chair: Robert Michel, The Dark Report, USA

WORKFORCE

0900 Pathology staffing into the future
Sue Hill, Chief Scientific Officer, Department of
Health, UK

0940 US model of pathology staffing
Elissa Passiment, Executive Vice President,
American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science, USA

1010 Seven day microbiology services – the impact on
service delivery
Simon Rattenbury, Laboratory Manager, Royal Free
Hampstead NHS Trust, UK

1040 Panel discussion

1100 Morning coffee/tea break

PARTNERSHIP WORKING

1120 The opportunities and challenges facing HPA through pathology rationalisation
Eric Bolton, Professor in Public Health Microbiology,
Acting Director HPA Central Office, UK

1155 Modernising hospital transfusion services
Michael Murphy, Professor of Blood Transfusion Medicine, University of Oxford, UK

1230 Integrating molecular pathology into patient pathways
Ian Cree, Professor of Histopathology, Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Portsmouth, UK

1305 Lunch

EMBEDDING THE CULTURE OF IMPROVEMENT

1345 Training specialist registrars in improvement methodology
Saimah Arif, National Clinical Lead – Pathology Service Improvement, UK

1415 Work cell – automation is not always the answer
Mick Chomyn, Assistant General Manager, Path Links, UK

1445 Breakout sessions 1

Delegates will be able to choose from a number of presentations
in the breakout rooms.

Refreshments will be served during the breakout sessions.

A: Making lean a way of life
David Clark, Rob Hughes, Path Links, UK

B: Blood transfusion – improving safety in day case surgery
Peter Gray / Matthew Barnett – Advanced practitioner for transfusion services, Taunton, UK

C: A never ending story – continuous improvement – six years on
Dave Hamer, National Clinical Lead – Blood Sciences, Bolton NHS Foundation Trust, UK

1525 Breakout sessions 2 (repeated sessions)

UK PATHOLOGY SERVICES - MAKING IT MORE THAN THE SUM OF ITS PARTS

1600 Act now …. or else
Robert Michel, Editor-in-Chief, The Dark Report

1700 Close of FILM 2012

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Frontiers in Laboratory Medicine is co-produced by the
Association for Clinical Biochemistry (ACB) and THE DARK REPORT. Each organization is widely-recognized for leadership in the field of laboratory medicine. Working together, ACB and THE DARK REPORT assemble the UK lab event of the year.