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effectiveness to serve people. However, rather than looking at the mere turnaround time of the tests in the laboratory, we are looking at improving the whole process.”
Conclusions
Little will be achieved in reforming and improving pathology services unless laboratory management and policymakers work hand in hand. Pathology has to embrace new technologies, process management and automation to achieve greater throughput without loss of quality. Policymakers need to urgently and intelligently address the question of pathology funding, which common sense suggests should be reviewed upwards given the strategic trend towards a health system where we try harder to prevent people needing healthcare, rather than struggle against the inexorably rising tide of demand for healthcare.
The discussion summarised in this short
article underlines the fact that key improvements to laboratory processes can have a lasting impact on a patient’s acute care journey. Resorting to laboratory mergers should be the last, not the first, strategy – and only once initiatives to improve process and technology have been fully explored.CSJ
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