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About the Scheme

The National Pathology Benchmarking Service, established in 1994, has been developed in consultation with clinicians in each pathology discipline who are nominated by their respective professional bodies, and built around feedback from participants.

It is a non-competitive programme designed 'by the users, for the users', and is an essential management tool for helping improve and reconfigure Pathology services, particularly in this world of modernisation and increasing financial pressure.

The National Pathology Benchmarking reports are the only reports of their type in the UK to offer comparison by cluster, showing how your department compares to similar departments throughout the UK. They include analysis of data in sections which include quality, workload (including individual tests), staffing, productivity, finance and cost per test/request.  Keele workload definitions have been refined and peer reviewed by discipline specific experts over the past 18 years, offering the most comparable standard available.

Separate reports are issued electronically for Clinical Biochemistry, Haematology, Histopathology and/or Cytology, Microbiology (including Virology), Immunology and Blood Sciences. The questionnaires are issued electronically, and full guidance is available from the Keele helpdesk during the completion process. The National Pathology Benchmarking Service is a non-profit making organisation, therefore subscription costs are set accordingly.

The National Pathology Benchmarking Service is peer reviewed by Fellows of The Royal College of Pathologists, and also backed by The Association of Clinical Scientists (ACS) and the Institute of Biomedical Science (IBMS).

For all enquiries please contact Andy Brooks either by phone - 01782 733627 or by email - a.brooks1@keele.ac.uk