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Vision statement, programme overview and FAQs

 
At the LINC Conference: The Future of Pathology, held on 7 October 2019, we asked participants to consider their vision for the service.
Their views were used to define our vision statement below: 

The pathology services across Wales work in unison to provide a patient-focused and clinically-led service, with managerial support, enabling the best care, pathways and outcomes for patients.  A resilient, motivated and valued workforce achieve operational excellence though training and engagement of staff at all levels.

The pathology service is standardised, sustainable and prudent.  People, process and technology are integrated to provide secure, stable and lean services at health board, regional or national levels. With patient safety and quality at its core, accreditation and validation are readily achieved.

The pathology service is supported by end-to-end systems and processes including electronic test requesting, laboratory information management system (LIMS) services, results reporting, alerts and notifications, underpinned by an open technical platform and integration services.  

Demand management ensures test requesting is clinically justified. Results are securely available across Wales to all clinicians at any location.

A single, national, standardised and validated LIMS service for all disciplines provides a highly resilient, safe and easy to use system that seamlessly underpins all Wales standardised, operational services.

Business intelligence provides comparable data to manage and performance monitor the service as a basis for continuous improvement.

The Pathology service is future proofed, able to evolve and respond to future developments in work patterns and practices, new technology and innovation.

LINC FAQs

A collection of questions sourced from our interactive sessions with the pathology service and wider stakeholders.