Clinical effectiveness

"Clinical effectiveness is the extent to which specific interventions, when deployed in the field for a particular patient or population, do what they are intended to do, for example, maintain and improve health and secure the greatest possible health gain from available sources." Department of Health

The Royal College of Pathologists aims to develop and deliver an enhanced range of clinical effectiveness activities in order to that establish the role of promote clinical effectiveness in pathology. These activities will include:

Clinical audit
Cancer datasets and tissue pathways
KPI (Key performance indicators)
National Laboratory Medicine Catalogue
Working with the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) on the development of guidelines, health technology appraisals and quality standards and diagnostics assessment