LabMeds new strategy for 2025-2029

At this year’s AGM, LabMed UK unveiled its new five-year strategy (2025-2029), introduced by our president, Kath Hayden. Building on our strong foundation and growing inclusive membership, this new strategy sets out an ambitious agenda to advance laboratory medicine in a rapidly changing healthcare landscape.

Guided by our vision to advance health and wellbeing in the UK through excellence in laboratory science and innovation the strategy identifies four key areas where LabMed will drive change:

1. Digital readiness – supporting members to harness AI, machine learning and digital systems to enhance patient care and innovation.
2. Standards and guidance – ensuring best practices is consistently applied through better access to, and involvement in, national guideline development.
3. Visibility and leadership – raising the profile of clinical scientists and empowering members to influence policy, research, and public understanding of diagnostics.
4. Workforce development – championing career pathways, training, and fair recognition to support a thriving and sustainable laboratory workforce.

This strategy was co-developed with members and stakeholders through a collaborative Theory of Change process that reflected on the profession’s key challenges, from digital transformation to workforce pressures and imagined what success should look like in 2029.

You can read the full strategy here

LabMed Strategy 2025-2029