Dr Anne Tarn, consultant pathologist, has had a recent publication in Pulse magazine on managing hyperkalaemia (high blood potassium levels). Pulse is the UK’s leading medical monthly publication for GPs and other primary care professionals.
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May 16, 2022
Point of Care Testing (POCT) at St George’s gets first UKAS accreditation
Last month, the SWLP POCT team received the exciting news that after two years of hard work, the blood gas and glucose meter service at St George’s was given full UKAS accreditation. It is the largest and most complex POCT service in the country to receive full accreditation, which proved challenging for both the POCT […]
May 4, 2022
SWLP Point of Care Testing Team runs first community diagnostic outreach clinic
South West London CCG ran their first diagnostic outreach clinic in the community supported by our Point of Care Testing (POCT) team testing at-risk groups for diabetes. The clinic was run at a Shree Ghanapathy Temple in Wandsworth where 34 members of the community were tested. Of that 34, 32 had abnormal results and two […]
April 5, 2022
Reducing blood product wastage at Croydon Hospital
The team in Blood Transfusion at Croydon Hospital have been working hard to reduce wastage of blood products. They have been doing this by reassessing the holding stock levels, rotation of stock and usage of short-dated units. Procedural changes were put in place in December 2020 and there has already been a significant reduction in […]
March 23, 2022
Pledia FIT testing system goes live in Microbiology
The Pledia Faecal Immunochemical Testing (FIT) system has now gone live in Microbiology. The new analyser can process 320 samples in an hour and 200 samples can be loaded at one time.