Issues
arising from the Royal College of Pathologists Council meeting
held on the 22nd June 2006
The following summary of
the meeting has been submitted by Mr Stephen Halloran, member
of the South East Regional Council. If any ACB members have issues
or views that they would like aired at the next South East Regional
Council meeting please contact Stephen on telephone number: 01483
464121 or email: s.halloran@nhs.net
Education
Centre - > 50% of funds raised, now able to apply for other
grants.
College
awarded Silver-Guilt at Chelsea flower show, the presentation
used is available as a teaching resource as a PDF file on website.
Life
Sciences task force to establish the roles of Advanced Practitioners.
IBMS wants to develop qualification with the college.
Named
lecture for Haematology to be established “Professor John Dacey
Annual Lecture for BSH”
Clinical
excellence Awards – College trying to start the process earlier
this year, Member to be encouraged to apply.
Academy
of Medical Royal Colleges – some trusts not recognising wider
NHS work.
Regional
councils:
National
appraisal website not suitable for pathology
Out
of hours reporting of results to GPs. President to have meeting
with President of RCGP
Professional
Standards Unit:
Developing
feedback tool for Consultants
Training
Many
applications awaiting assessment by PMETB
MMC
– students to be banded for allocation to postgraduate posts.
Concern that SHO posts will be lost to save money.
National
Pathology Week – idea proposed by Kevin West to try to raise the
profile of pathology. Plan to have one next year.
Examinations
Remark
was made regarding the high pass rate for Part 1 MRCPath (histo)
An
explanation was given as to why the same examination was used
for both the fist sitting and resit Year 1 Examination. The reason
was because the standard setting method used ‘Borderline Standard
Setting' could not be used for a resit paper with few candidates.
Therefore the same paper used. This will not be the case in future
years a different method will be used.
Concern
regarding lack of knowledge of clinical trainees of lab sciences
was raised.
Select
group to look at reference ranges and units.
Short-life
PR group to look at 3 work streams
•
Pathologists in history
•
Modern day pathologists – role models
•
Famous people who have had and survived pathology
Two
new types of articles to be published in Bulletin:
•
Good practice/lab management
•
Multi discliniplinary case reports
International
committee: 62 applications for international advisor
Payment
by results – document suggests all Colleges were involved no one
aware of pathology involvement. The range of specific tests listed
was bad.
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