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9.00 ISO 15189 it’s all about the patient: What to expect from the new version
Dr David Ricketts Health Services Laboratories LLP
9.30 Quality for the patient, not just for the sake of it Shauna McAulay, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust
10.30 Learning from excellence - recognising when things go right
Dr Adrian Plunkett, Learning from Excellence, Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust
11.00 Investigation of serious incidents
– what to do when things go wrong Nigel Coles, Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust
11.30 Maintaining quality while working from home
Gary Collins, University Hospital Crosshouse

10.30 New ISO risk and safety standards
David Ricketts, Head of Laboratory Process Improvement, Health Services Laboratories LLP

11.30 Rethinking transfusion safety Nicola Swarbrick, Laboratory Incident Specialist, Serious Hazards of Transfusion (SHOT)

11.00 Covid-19: the safety considerations associated with diagnostic testing and the vaccine response
Vin Poran, Health and Safety Executive

09.30 The importance of a thorough complaints investigation
Sarah May, Deputy Chief Executive, IBMS

09.00 The risk of not having a meaningful risk register
Nigel Coles, Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust

Chair: Katherine Philpott
14.00 Use of thromboelastography in guiding blood component/product requirements Daniella Winterburn, South Tees Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 14.30 Patient Blood Management – what does this mean? Lisa McKain, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
15.00 British Society for Haematology information technology guidelines update Julie Staves, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Chair: Anne Lockhart 9.00 Network development – staffing issues
Rashmi Rook, formerly of Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
9.30 The challenges of multi-disciplinary staff competencies on a spoke site
Catherine Lorenzen, East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust
10.30 Major haemorrhage protocols
Dr Ric Procter, South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
11.00 Major incident plans
Karen Madgwick, North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust
11.30 Laboratory errors in Transfusion Dr Shruthi Narayan, Serious Hazards of Transfusion (SHOT)
12.45 Antibody workshop
Jill Caulfield, NHSBT and Martin Maley, University of Sunderland

Chair: Catherine Lorenzen
14.00 Column agglutination technology Kerry Dowling,
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust
14.30 Technology – solid phase Samantha Reynolds, University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust
15.00 Microarray technology
Dr Janine Robb, Quotient, Edinburgh
16.00 Regular transfusion –- the patient experience Dipika Shah, UKNEQAS Haematology and Blood Transfusion
16.30 The Cambridge Cellular Therapy Laboratory
Sarah Albon, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Chair: Peter Hitchcock Virus vaccines
14.00 Vaccine hesitancy – causes and effects Dr Rajeka Lazarus, University Hospital Bristol & Weston
14.30 Vaccine development and production
Tony Hitchcock, Cobra Biologics
15.00 Virus Vaccines
- SARS-CoV-2
vaccines – a regional perspective Dr Eleanor Powers, NHS England and Improvement, East of
England