Good partnership working

Wednesday, 18 September, 2013

Twenty years after the Audit Commission called for pathology services to be reformed and nearly ten years after Lord Carter of Coles review of NHS pathology, the Health Services Journal (HSJ) looks at the impact of pathology reorganisation, citing our organisation as an example. 

CEO Richard Jones discusses the joint investment from GSTS, King's College Hospital and Guy's and St Thomas’ Trusts in upgrading the Bedford laboratory, to enable it to become the network’s hub, as an example of good partnership working.

“The lab currently handles three million samples. Under the network plans this could be increased to about 15 million from GPs across a much larger geography. We will have an automated blood sciences track and the option of an automated microbiology facility"

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