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In this presentation, we will explore the dynamic landscape of Northwest London Pathology (NWLP) and its pivotal role in shaping the future of diagnostic excellence and leadership in healthcare. With a focus on innovation, collaboration, and patient-centred care, NWLP has emerged as a driving force in advancing pathology services in the region.

Join us as we delve into the key initiatives, strategies, and achievements of NWLP, highlighting its impact on diagnostic accuracy, efficiency, and quality improvement. Through insightful case studies and real-world examples, we will showcase how NWLP's forward-thinking approach is revolutionising the field of pathology and setting new standards for leadership in healthcare.

As president of the IBMS, a world leading member organisation representing 21,000 biomedical scientists, Debra will address the innovative ways in which the biomedical science sector could provide much needed relief to UK healthcare.

The future of diagnostic services will be much more proactive, supported by analysis of healthcare data harvested from a much wider population, enabled by machine learning & AI technology. 

This new diagnostic paradigm will deliver improved clinical outcomes and health economy savings through earlier identification of disease and more services based in primary care or at the point of need.

The potential opportunities she will explore include the role of advance practice biomedical scientists who could act as consultant level equivalents to help reduce diagnostic backlogs, improvements and innovations within pathology practice to increase efficiencies and the use of home testing kits to improve earlier diagnosis and expedite patients to the correct point of care.

Q&A

Morning Break

Chair Morning Reflection

Case Study - Salutare

Digital Phlebotomy- Anywhere, Anytime, Every patient

Kevin Moore 
Chief Medical Officer

Professor of Hepatology

Case Study - Exponential-e

Imaging and AI Platform as a Service

Speaker : Simon Staveley, Cloud Specialist 

The world’s population is increasing at a dramatic rate. Since the turn of the millennium the world population has increased by 33%. This growth is set to continue for the next 80 years. Moreso, the growth is in the over 65 years population with little change predicted to birth rates. By 2100 the life expectancy in the UK is predicted to increase to over 90 years of age.

The healthcare needs of the UK population are already increasing with an increasing percentage of over sixty-fives, whilst the percentage of the population at an employable age is reducing.

Chris will look at the attitudes of the Generation Z and Generation Alpha and ask what we need to be aware of and what we need to do now to ensure we can create a workforce for the future with the skills, incentives, capacity and capability of sustaining and providing high quality services to an increasing population.

Case Study - Aiforia

Create and Clinical Suite with a live demonstration with Aiforia

Q&A Panel

Networking

Chair Afternoon Address

Outsourcing is now a fact of life for NHS pathology departments, with increasing numbers and complexity of cases being sent out to a growing number of third-party organisations that are rapidly expanding their capacity for both Dry and Wet cases.

Unfortunately, the initial export and consequential reimportation of cases, from and to a Trust’s LIMS can involve a significant amount of manual processing that absorbs large amounts of time, causes processing delays and is inherently error prone.

In this day and age, is it economic or clinically safe to have administrative staff manually cutting and pasting clinical text and data between systems?

My presentation outlines the TalkingPoint solution for automated case transfer, as used by a growing number of Trusts who are supported by a choice of outsourcing companies.

Organisations in all sectors have had to face and cope with massive change, both externally and internally for many years. This often brings turbulence to our different environments, including our work environments. None of us would have predicted the scale and pace of change through the pandemic, and emerging from this time we feel the effect of this huge turbulence, which has altered irrevocably the psychological contract between our organisations and our employees. For possibly the first time, in some cases, we have had to think about what we can do for our staff as well what they can do for us. In this context, leadership as well as management effectiveness is crucial and we must learn to understand what it means to experience true system change. Individuals are organisations are being called upon to awaken to a new knowing, an integrity and courage to do what you say and love what you know.

This presentation will create awareness of the depth of that change as we now consider how does a system change?

Sharing experiences and lessons learned from implementing an Enterprise LIMS in 2 different pathology networks. 

Kent and Medway Pathology Network sharing their collaborative approach in the training, development and support of their current and future workforce.

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Q&A Panel

Drinks Reception, Networking and End of Day