Case Study
Improving Workflow Processes in Staining and Coverslipping
Thermo Scientific Gemini and ClearVue Improving Workflow Processes in Staining and Coverslipping Cheltenham General Hospital with limitations on budgets and headcount imposed by the trusts in the current economic climate. Mark Anniss is the Deputy Pathology Laboratory Manager at Cheltenham General Hospital, who faces such challenges on a daily basis. Mark supervises the busy laboratory, where in 2014 they dealt with over 42,000 new cases, an average of over 800 per week. Despite having a team of only eight to ten full-time- equivalent, registered BMS staff and four MLA’s, in 2015 that case load meant almost 143,000 Hematoxylin & Eosin (H&E) stains being carried out in the laboratory. A service area covering over 100 GP surgeries as well as referral cases fr