- Pathology & Diagnostics Information Standards Collaboration Space
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- Stakeholder Engagement
Stakeholder Engagement
The National Pathology and Diagnostics team at NHS Digital are working closely alongside other key strategic partners to enable the sharing of Pathology results across all healthcare settings. To make this happen we are looking to engage with as many key stakeholders as possible to provide updates, share knowledge and potentially collaborate on the work we are undertaking.
There are a number of forums for stakeholders to engage with the Programme
Pathology Standards Governance Board (PSGB)
The purpose of the Pathology Standards Governance Board (PSGB) is to ensure a high quality UTL containing SNOMED CT concepts and processes for maintaining them to ensure they are clinically safe, accepted and effective for the user community.
The objectives are:
- Execute oversight of the pathology standard (UTL) for reporting pathology test requests and results
- Approve the UTL releases, including new test requests and results and retiring inactivated codes
- Provide recommendations to IReS on UTL related products and service developments including:
- Test request and result names and codes
- Units of Measures
- Central repositories/APIs of UTL
- Review tracking tools associated with clinical assurance of the UTL and associated products
- Recommend priorities for UTL development
- Oversee the clinical and technical assurance of the UTL releases and the associated UoM
- Oversee the clinical and technical assurance processes used to maintain the quality of UTL
- Approve and oversee the maintenance of the Editorial Principles for the UTL
- Facilitate the expansion of the UTL, as required for the pathology disciplines, in consultation with stakeholders
- Promote uptake and use within the user community
- Provide leadership in acceptance and integration of the UTL deployment in the NHS aligned with the mandatory requirements identified by NHS England and NHS Improvement’s National Pathology Optimisation and Delivery board
PSGB Membership
| SGB Member | Organisation | Organisation Role |
| Robert Simpson (Chair) | Informatics Lead | |
| Dr John Williams (Vice Chair) | Member of FCI Trustee Board | |
| Laszlo Igali | IT Lead. Professional lead for development of the National Laboratory Medicine Catalogue | |
| Histopathologist | ||
| Doris-Ann Williams MBE | Chief Executive | |
| Andy Harris | Labgnostic (Formerly NPex) | Informatics Director |
| David Gaunt | Chair of Informatics Committee | |
| Sophia Turner | Patient/ Lay representation | |
| Prof. Jonathan Kay | Chair of Council | |
| Darren Treanor | Northern Pathology Imaging Co-operative Digital Pathology Lead | |
| Ian Thomson | Clinical Lead (Primary Care) in Digital Health & Care | |
| Jim Allison | Clinical Lead | |
| Doug Robertson | Clinical Scientist | |
| Mark Sleeman | Chief Clinical Informatics Officer | |
| Michael Adeogun | Head of Life Sciences & Health |
Pathology Programme Board (PPB)
The role of the Pathology Programme Board is to own the high-level roadmap to enable the sharing of Pathology test results within the NHS and ensure the programme is operating to a central vision and common objectives.
The Pathology Programme Board is responsible for:
- Providing overall direction for the CCIO7 Pathology Programme, ensuring clear objectives and defined deliverables are set
- Committing resources to ensure the successful completion of the programme
- Prioritising deliverables and resources
- Resolving strategic and directional cross-organisational/stakeholder issues or dependencies
- Ensuring effective engagement and communications with external stakeholders across the NHS
- Informing the Senior Responsible Owners, Decision Making