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Press and Communications Manager: Samantha Jayaram
Tel: 020 7451 6752
Fax: 020 7451 6701
Email: samantha.jayaram@rcpath.org
 Press pack
27 July 2010
Abolition of the Human Tissue Authority - Press Release
12 July 2010
Reconfiguration of NHS Pathology Services - Press Release
23 June 2010
Allergy Services: Still not meeting the unmet need - Press release
Allergy Services: Still not meeting the unmet need: Report
21 June 2010
Quilts as the College 2 - An exhibition
19 April 2010
14 Drawings - an exhibition by the artist Toni Davey
31 March 2010
6 April 2010
The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges - Venous Thromboembolism
31 March 2010
Statement on National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA), Delayed Diagnosis of Cancer Thematic Review - Response of the Royal College of Pathologists (RCPath)
24 March 2010
Statement on Royal College of Physicians Report Tobacco Advisory Group report: Passive Smoking and Children
4 February 2010
Report of a meeting on the pathology of traumatic head injury in children
What is Quality in Pathology? Report of a meeting to discuss the development of laboratory accreditation in the UK
10 December 2009 - Press Release
College Vice-President Wins Healthcare Scientist of the Year Award 2009
5 November 2009 - Press Release- National Pathology Week 2009
Hearts at High Altitudes at the Royal Geographical Society
2 November 2009 - Press Release- Come and meet a pathologist during National Pathology Week 2009
National Pathology Week 2009
25 September 2009 - Press Statement - Government Announcement.
Two week Cancer Tests
June 29 - Clinical Service Accreditation
Report of a meeting to plan the future development and coordination of clinical service accreditation systems
June 3 - Women In Medicine
Press statment - Women in Medicine
March 12 - World Kidney Day
Press Release - World Kidney Day
Clinical Pathology Accreditation (CPA) and the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS)
Clinical Pathology Accreditation (CPA) and the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS)
College response to Carter Report: 23 January 2009
The Royal College of Pathologists' response to the Report of the Second Phase of the Independent Review of NHS Pathology Services in England
Press release: 18 December 2008
Royal College of Pathologists Supports Carter Report’s Main Findings
Report of the Second Phase of the Review of NHS Pathology Services in England
The Department of Health’s Response to the Report of the Second Phase of the Independent Review of NHS Pathology Services in England
 Further information on the Independent Review of NHS Pathology Services is available on the Department of Health website.
Press release: 8 December 2008
Healthcare Scientist of the Year
News: Changes to Diplomate membership, 1 December 2008
Diplomate membership of the College
Press release: 19 November 2008
New College President and Vice-Presidents
Press release: 10 November 2008
Essay Prize Winner: National Pathology Week 10 November
Press release: 7 November 2008
National Pathology Week 7 November
Press release: 6 November 2008
National Pathology Week 6 November
Press release: November 2008
Sudden Cardiac Death pathology database
Press release: October 2008
National Pathology Week 3–9 November
Press release: September 2008
Baxter & Royal College of Pathologists Fellowship Award announced
Baxter & RCPath Fellowship Award
Press release: 30 June 2008
Sixty years of the NHS
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Press release: 20 May 2008
Pathologists win Gold medal at Chelsea Flower Show
The Royal College of Pathologists and the Health Protection Agency have won a highly prestigious Gold Medal at this year's Chelsea Flower Show. The joint exhibition explores the possibility that climate change may increase the risk of malaria returning to the UK.
Click here for the press release.
Undergraduate medical student essay prize 2008
The Royal College of Pathologists is launching its first annual undergraduate essay prize for medical students
Download full instructions
 Originality certificate - All applicants must complete this form
News: 11 March 2008
Report calls for better evaluation of new diagnostic tests to benefit patients
Laboratory tests are used routinely to diagnose patients and to predict the risk that someone who is currently well will develop a disease in the future. New tests are appearing rapidly, largely because of the Human Genome Project. But for most tests there is no independent evaluation mechanism to ensure that a test actually benefits the patient.
A joint report from the RCPath and PhG Foundation
Making sense of testing
Diagnostic Summit Final Report
News: 4 March 2008
The elimination of pathology and laboratory medicine from the curriculum in many medical schools and the consequent lack of knowledge of basic science among junior doctors is jeopardising patient safety, says a report in the Annals of Clinical Biochemistry.
Junior doctors ‘don't understand lab tests'
Is the medical undergraduate curriculum ‘fit for purpose’?
News: 24 January 2008
Primary Care Order Communications project - early adopter sites announced
Two early adopters have been selected as part of the Primary Care Order Communications project, which is developing the electronic ordering of pathology tests and the reporting of test results, in primary care.
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Press statement: 16 January 2008
Misreporting of diagnostic tests at Histopathology Department at Wrexham Maelor Hospital
A small number of mistakes have been identified within a limited number of diagnostic test reports issued by the Histopathology Department at the Wrexham Maelor Hospital. These relate to tissue samples reported on by one particular pathologist during the period April 2006 to September 2007.
Read the full statement here.
News: Wednesday 2 January 2008
National Pathology Week
The first National Pathology Week will be held from 3-9 November 2008.
Read the press release here.
News: Wednesday 2 January 2008
Visual Identity Project
We want to appeal to a more diverse, younger range of audiences and therefore need to review our current visual identity to ensure we make this happen. The College’s strategic priorities of furthering public education in the field of pathology with the opening of the Education Centre and launch of National Pathology Week next year also mean that we need to get started on this project as soon as possible.
Click here for the full story
If you are looking for a press release or news story prior to 2008, please see our archive.
For further press information please contact Samantha Jayaram
Tel: 0207 451 6752 E-mail: Samantha.Jayaram@rcpath.org
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