In addition to managing three departments (Pathology, Haemophilia and Infection Control) I am intimately involved with a couple of significant projects. The project I am sharing with you now is examining how to modernise Pathology services to enable the department to respond effectively to the pressures being experienced by the sector on a regional and national basis to ensure its survival and prosperity". Pathology on a national level is expected to centralise it services in response
to The Carter Report (2008) whereby we will see the demise of smaller hospital laboratories in the wake of larger regional ones. My role is to manage the modernisation and potentially the expansion of our current services, both in terms of laboratory capacity and seeking new customers, to ensure we are able to compete as the laboratory of choice in our region. This involves challenging established mind sets as to the way we do our business, identifying ways to improve our business by making
it more effective and efficient as well as gaining buy-in from the Executive Board.