Formed in 2022, The British Society for Haematology (BSH) Laboratory Special Interest Group (SIG) incorporates both benign and malignant laboratory haematology. The SIG is comprised of BSH members and non-members who are a mix of medics and scientists.
The group will focus on general laboratory haematology, haematological malignancy diagnostics and the investigation of constitutional haematological disorders in the UK. These will continue to be a growth area over the next few decades, particularly with the advent of genomic and personalised medicine. Within the SIG, we will have separate sub-speciality workstreams to allow professionals to coalesce around areas of their particular interest, such as HMDS or red cell haematology.
These workstreams will operate and report through the SIG organising committee.
Officers of the Laboratory SIG
Tom Butler (Chair)
Robert Baker
Rachel Brown
Emma Das-Gupta
Timothy Farren
Fergus Jack (Trustee link)
Shireen Kassam
Nagumantry Kumar
Andrew McGregor
Melanie Percy
Noemi Roy
April Sellors
Andrew Wilson
Laboratory SIG: Updated diagnostic classifications in haematological oncology
For some time, we have been anticipating the publication of two new haematological malignancy diagnostic classifications: the World Heath Organisation (WHO) 5th edition and the International Consensus Calssification (ICC), the outlines of which have recently been published in Leukemia and Blood, respectively.
While for the most part, they agree the overlap with each other, the two classifications do differ in some areas. The British Society for Haeamtology (BSH) and British Lymphoma Pathology Group (BLPG) have been asked to help with the issue. We want to provid some interim guidance for members, whilst planning formal definitive guidance, more information can be found here.
Join the Laboratory Special Interest Group. The SIG welcomes both members and non-members of the BSH who have a special interest in Laboratory Haematology and is free to join.
Please note you will need to log in or create a website account to join a SIG.
For more information, email [email protected] or call 020 7713 0990.
The BSH would like to survey UK members and their colleagues about SIHMDS laboratories: how they function, what services they provide and ask about any issues.
We are interested in the views of scientific and clinical colleagues who work in an SIHMDS laboratory, as well as service users. We recognise that this includes a wide range of staff with varying knowledge of SIHMDS services but we would like to encourage responses from anyone who has an interest in this field, regardless of post or experience.
The survey is easy to complete and can be finished in 10 minutes, although there are comment boxes available if you wish to provide more feedback on certain topics.
Additionally, there are “don’t know” options for the majority of questions so even if you have a limited experience of SIHMDS, you can still complete the survey and we would encourage you to do so.
We would also like individual responses, rather than answers collated by teams of people, as we want to generate a complete picture of opinions towards SIHMDS laboratories, informed by all members of staff who feed into them.
The purpose of this survey is to use the results to help the BSH and other national bodies recommend improvements for patients, so please take part and use this as an opportunity to highlight both good practice and areas for development.
Take the survey.
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