09.00 Registration & Coffee
09.25 Welcome and Introduction - Dr Kathryn Ryan, Belfast Health & Social Care NHS Trust
Interference in Laboratory Tests
Chair: Dr Chris Chaloner, Manchester
09.30 Pitfalls in the measurement and interpretation of thyroid function tests - Dr Mark Gurnell, University of Cambridge
10.05 Interferences in routine clinical chemistry tests - Dr Phil Monaghan, Manchester
10.40 Monoclonal antibody interference in protein electrophoresis - Dr Jo Sheldon, South West London
11.15 Mid-morning refreshments
Challenges in Paediatrics
Chair: Dr Chris Chaloner, Manchester
11.40 Cortisol assays - fitness for purpose paediatrics - Mrs Lesley Tetlow, Manchester
12.10 Paediatric Endocrinology - when to panic? - Dr Les Perry
12.40 Lunch & networking
Challenging Conventions
Chair: Mrs Sarah Cleary, Lanarkshire
13.30 Is the Friedwald Equation still relevant? - Dr Dermot Neely, Newcastle
14.05 A coffee a day keeps the doctor away - Professor Peter Hayes, Edinburgh
14.45 Afternoon refreshments
15.05 Welcome from Professor Jo Martin, President, RCPath and short talk on eCPD App
Laboratory Medicine Improving Patient Care
15.15 Introduction and Overview - Demand optimisation: defining value in laboratory services - Dr Bernie Croal, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary
15.25 Relating lab testing to outcomes – delivering patient-centred laboratory medicine - Mr Mike Hallworth, Shrewsbury
15.55 Better patient outcomes by improving the laboratory-clinician interface - Dr Danielle Freedman, Luton & Dunstable Hospital
16.25 Close