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IBMS President at opening of new South West London Pathology labs
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5 May 2016
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IBMS President Ian Sturdgess attended the launch of the
South West London Pathology’s (SWLP) new state of the
art pathology labs at St George’s Hospital NHS
Foundation Trust on 4 May.
The President was invited along with guests from SWLP staff;
the hospital trusts; NHS England; the Medical Director for
London Region; key local GPs and CCG colleagues and
representatives from the main suppliers Roche, BD Kiestra,
Becton Dickinson.
Ian said:
"I was delighted and honoured to open the new labs at South
West London Pathology. It will provide a high-quality and
advanced service to London and is an example of how our
profession transforms and delivers on NHS modernisation and
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2. IBMS President Ian Sturdgess at
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innovation. I was very impressed by the facilities and all the
staff involved."
Three NHS Trusts (Croydon Health Services NHS Trust,
Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, and St George's
University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust) collaborated to
deliver a single, integrated, NHS-led pathology service called
South West London Pathology (SWLP). The service covers
3.5m people across South West London via 3 hospitals, 200
GP practices and 30 healthcare centres.
SWLP is a successful result of the NHS London, ‘Modernising
Pathology Programme’ led by Dr Andy Mitchell in which
London trusts were arranged into five clusters and asked to
develop business cases for partnership working for pathology
services.
SWLP has been one of the UK’s fastest ever pathology service
redesigns, with the integrated solution having only started in
January 2014 and going live in December 2015. Using a best-
practice ‘hub and spoke’ delivery model, the integrated
system maximises the efficiency, safety, quality and cost of
pathology services.
The new hub and spoke system saw the pathology lab at St
George's University Hospital refurbished and expanded to
become the central hub for the majority of tests, with Croydon
and Kingston retaining hot labs onsite for emergency tests.
SWLP have shared the knowledge and experience learnt from
the new operations to healthcare providers from the UK
(including NHS hospitals), Europe, China and Australia.
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