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Applications for both CRG chairs and members are invited from clinicians with a medical, nursing or allied health professional background working in one of the CRG services areas

For Healthcare Science Week, the Institute of Biomedical Science (IBMS) has made three videos detailing what happens to samples given at GP surgeries

Danny Gaskin (@danieltgaskin) and Ola Yahaya (@molayahaya) discuss the formation of clots in EDTA ‘lavender top' blood samples and how to avoid them

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IBMS History Committee member Stephen Clarke FIBMS tracks the history of hCG as a pregnancy indicator and tumour marker. Before his retirement, he worked in clinical chemistry at Southmead Hospital.

David Petts, chairman of the IBMS History Committee and the Medical Sciences Historical Society, speaking in 2007 about his experiences of laboratory based pregnancy testing

Peter Hodges remembers the mid-50s, when he was doing pregnancy testing in the laboratory

Biomedical scientists face an annual fee increase to their Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) registration from 1st October 2019

Danny and Ola discuss the pre-analytical challenges associated with short volume sodium citrate 'blue top' anti-coagulated blood samples and why these must be rejected

IBMS Registration Portfolio verifier, Caoimhe Quigley, took to Twitter this weekend to explain what she's looking for on her verification visits