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Walk into the Clinical Blood Sciences lab at Croydon University Hospital and you can’t miss them: a pillar covered in laminated wall charts, each one a grid of red and green marker strokes climbing towards a 95% goal line. They track urgent turnaround times for tests like troponin, U&Es and CRP, day by day, month by month. They’re simple. They’re visible. And according to the team behind them, they’re changing how the lab works.

There is a moment in every meaningful career when the role you have been preparing for finally meets the person you have become.. As Sarah prepares to step down from her role as Network Clinical Lead for Biochemistry at South West London Pathology, Sarah reflects on her forty-two year career that began with a serendipitous laboratory placement and evolved into a legacy of connection and collaboration.

For Diana, every day presents a unique challenge. it all depends on which bench she’s working. Some days she’s on a one-person bench, giving her the freedom to plan her own time. Other days she’s in the 6800, SWLP’s busy molecular suite housing three Cobas analysers, working alongside an Associate Practitioner and one or two Band Support Workers.

Our managing director, Simon Brewer, led a team from the South West London to Bordeaux, France to visit one of Europe’s most advanced diagnostic laboratories, a trip that is now directly shaping plans for SWLP’s own GP hub.

After 27 years of dedicated service to the NHS, Kim Brown, Technical Lead in Biochemistry, has finally received the recognition she richly deserves through the gesh Long Service Awards.

Just three weeks into her new role as Blood Transfusion (BT) Network Lead for SWLP, Sewa Joacquim-Hearne is already on the move. Based at St George’s Hospital but with a presence planned across all five sites, including Epsom, St Helier, Kingston, and Croydon, she is taking on a role that is as much about connection as it is about clinical expertise.

Shanthiya Akeesan, a Specialist Biomedical Scientist at Epsom and St Helier delivered a highly successful booth presentation on latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) screening at ESCMID Global 2026 in Munich, Germany. The presentation, titled ‘Evaluation of a fully automated second-generation interferon-gamma release assay for latent tuberculosis infection: diagnostic performance and clinical implications’, showcased Shanthiya’s research into […]