Conjunctival scraping – bacteriological culture and referral for acanthamoeba

In line with the national think kidneys acute kidney injury programme, led by NHS England, the Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) alert system is being rolled out to cover patients in the community.

At this year’s IBMS Congress, members of the SWLP Training Team won the poster competition in the education and training category.

A new digital platform called Scopio by Beckman Coulter has been introduced at Croydon Hospital for blood film morphology. The new platform can do a full field scan, which means that it is scanning the entire blood film, including feathery edge of the blood film, which is why it is able to look at almost all, if not all, cell types present on that particular film.

Find out about a day in the life of our Reception Supervisor at Croydon Hospital Denise Eck.