Education

Pathology action learning sets
The Department of Health has published a document detailing all the pathology action learning sets which are currently in operation. Among the subjects covered are:
o Anti-coagulant clinics in the community
o Costing and commissioning
o Demand management
o Harmonisation of reference intervals
o HPA dyspepsia clinics
o Immunology shared service
o Informatics
o Lab to lab communications
o LEAN/6 Sigma
o Mortuary services
o Order communications
o Out of hours reporting
o Phlebotomy
o Point of care testing
o Reporting of results
o Service improvement
o Service reconfiguration
o Transport
o Using action learning to work with management teams
o Workforce reprofiling

The document is available to download from the Department of Health web-site.