National Audit Day 2025
The Association for Laboratory Medicine welcomes you to the National Audit Day 2025.
The presentations today will include both national and local audits carried out by clinical scientists and medical staff working in laboratory medicine, as well as information on forthcoming audits.
Remember to vote for today's poster session. Scoring will close at 2.00pm today, 28th November!
Programme
9.30am Welcome and introduction
W Wassif, National Audit Lead
9.35am National audit of the laboratory investigation of PSA for the diagnosis and monitoring of prostate cancer
Andrew Seggie and Abel Tesfai, Prostate Cancer UK
10.05am Detection, assessment, surveillance, and management of prostate cancer
Caroline Moore, University College Hospital, London
10.45am Patient perspective
Neil MacLachlan
11.00am Tea break
11.15am National audit on testosterone
Nicola Barlow, Black Country Pathology Services
11.45am Outcomes of testosterone treatment in pathological and functional male hypogonadism
Richard Quinton, Newcastle Hospitals Trust
12.25am Discussion
12.35am New oncological therapeutics: 50 ways to kill your cancer
Kathryn Hawkesford, Barts Health NHS Trust
1.15pm Lunch and poster session
2.15pm National audit on tumours markers
Louise Ward, Bedford Hospital NHS Trust and Peter West, South Thames Audit Group
2.45pm The provision of laboratory services for tumour markers
Cathie Sturgeon, Edinburgh Royal Infirmary
3.15pm Tea break
3.30pm Circulating DNA (ctDNA): A potentially transformative tumour marker
Michael Duffy, St Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin
4.00pm Personalized medicine: Clinical implications of molecular profiling of tumours, an update
Shahzad Qureshi, Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
4.30pm Regional audit presentations
Improving post-discharge iron monitoring in heart failure patients treated with intravenous iron: Closed-loop retrospective audit
Christos Charalambous
Assessing performance of LDL-C assayed by direct method compared to calculation by Friedewald and Sampson equations to improve the provision of lipid lowering therapy
Tanmin Rahman
5.00pm Discussion
5.10pm Feedback and closing remarks
W Wassif, National Audit Lead
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