March 2017

Resources

How to…monitor a clinical service using audit

Following the completion of a high-quality audit, the team at Manchester Royal Infirmary’s cytology department offer guidance on monitoring a clinical service.

Cytopathology

News

Malaria: Concern as treatment fails

A key malaria treatment has failed for the first time in patients being treated in the UK.

Haematology & Transfusion Science, Immunology

News

Promoting the profession

Biomedical scientists and IBMS members have been promoting and discussing the profession at debates and talks over recent weeks.

Resources

My lab: Veterinary Disease Surveillance

Dawn Alderson gives a guided tour of her veterinary disease surveillance lab, which is “similar to a hospital pathology laboratory”, but with more species to consider.

Microbiology & Virology

Resources

Here to help: Providing advice and guidance

In the third of our Here to Help series of articles, Jocelyn Pryce, IBMS Head of Registration, discusses the evolving role of CPD Officers.

Resources

Journal-based learning exercises March 2017

Journal-based learning (JBL) exercises are a regular feature of CPD coverage in The Biomedical Scientist. You may complete as many JBL exercises as you wish and you are not restricted by specialty.

News

Obituary: Jayantilal Bhundia

It is with sadness that we report the passing of a colleague and a friend, Jayantilal (Jay) Bhundia, following a short battle with pancreatic cancer.

Science

THE BIG QUESTION: Does pathology workforce reprofiling threaten or liberate the scientists?

Does pathology workforce reprofiling threaten or liberate the scientists?

News

Trust appoints CliniSys

CliniSys has been selected as Luton and Dunstable University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust’s pathology IT partner.

Technology

“Milestone for tele-medicine tech”

Scientists have created a DNA-analysing smartphone attachment, which costs a fraction of lab-based kit.

News

East Sussex labs overhaul

New pathology laboratories with the latest advanced diagnostic equipment have opened at Conquest Hospital and Eastbourne DGH.