Since the merger of the Burton Pathology Laboratory with Derby, the pathology reporting system PathoSys® now covers the entire Derby-Burton Cancer Network area.

Two additional Consultant Histopathologists have been added to the current user base at Derby City General Hospital with more on the way.

AES Medical is pleased to welcome the new users of the PathoSys® system.

Also, we are grateful for the confidence shown in PathoSys® by the Derby Hospitals NHS Trust and the Burton Hospitals NHS Trust with this expansion of usage in terms of users and throughput.

Following the implementation of the pathology reporting system PathoSys® at the St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. AES Medical has been invited to exhibit at the North West Cancer Intelligence Service (NWCIS) Workshop.

The event is being held at the Reebok Stadium in Bolton and is expected to attract over 100 delegates from the North West of England.

Following an invite AES Medical will be presenting the Lymphoma module for PathoSys® at the Autum Meeting of the British Lymphoma Pathology Group.

The meeting on Thursday the 6th of November is being held at St Thomas Hospital, London. St Thomas Hospital was founded in the 12th century and today is part of Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust.

The PathoSys® user group was kindly invited to the the £18 million ‘super-lab’ at the Royal Oldham Hospital. The lab which is one of the biggest in the country runs centralised pathology services across Oldham, Rochdale, Heywood and Middleton, Bury and North Manchester.

The user group meetings are increasingly well attended and offer users a chance to share best practice and see how other Trusts have implemented and used the PathoSys system. Also as part of the day a tour was given around the impressive new laboratory.

AES Medical would like to thank the staff at the Royal Oldham Hospital laboratory for hosting the event and our guest speaker from PathLinks.

The PathoSys® User Group website has been upgraded.

The user group website now has a refreshed look and more information has been added to the forum.In particular information regarding our proposed audit service has been added.

AES Medical has improved the downloads section which now contains categories of downloads to ease navigation and increased content.

Newsletter

All users registered with the PathoSys® User Group can now subscribe to our optional email newsletter which provides information on:

• Developments to PathoSys®
• Tips for using PathoSys®

This newsletter is emailed out automatically once users have subscribed and users have the option to unsubscribe at any time from this service.

The User Group

The PathoSys® user group is dedicated to informing and educating PathoSys® users about AES Medical products, services and any recent developments.

The user group aims to enable its members to:

• Share experiences in using the PathoSys® product and associated services with other user group members and learn from their experiences.
• Influence direction and improve PathoSys® through communication and cooperation with AES Medical.
• Provide a forum for sharing pathology knowledge, best practice and news from all sources with other AES Medical user group members.

The AES Medical team has met with the Somerset Cancer Register system team to discuss the linking of PathoSys® and the Somerset Cancer Register System.

The result of this meeting is an agreement in principle that AES Medical will develop (together with the SCR team) an interface that will allow the electronic transfer of data between the two systems.

This will initially be made available to both Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust.

The SCR System

The Somerset Cancer Register is a single database application developed by Somerset Health Informatics (SHI).

The system has the capability to collect clinical cancer data for each cancer site along the patient pathway.

Resulting in the collection of clinical cancer data across the network being improved and standardised whilst providing a single source for interrogation of information about a patients cancer care.

The pathology reporting system PathoSys® has been in use since November 2006 at the Pathology laboratory at the new Derby City General Hospital. This £334 million hospital has 1159 beds and following the final phase of development is due to be completed in spring 2009.

Together with the Derby Medical School, run in partnership with the University of Nottingham, the new hospital will become one of the largest teaching hospitals in the UK.

PathoSys® has been running live at Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust linked to the iSoft CILMS system.

This is due to be replaced during 2008 with the iSoft iLab laboratory system.

PathoSys® will continue in use after the upgrade linked to iLab. As part of the upgrade process, the interface between the PathoSys® and iLab systems has been installed.

Interface installation

The iLab interface was installed on-site by an iSoft engineer. This was done in co-operation with AES Medical allowing the testing of the interface functionality during the installation.

Building on experience gained by both parties from previous installations this was achieved in a single morning.

Formed in 1990 St Helens & Knowsley Hospitals Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust employs over 4,000 staff who provide a full range of acute service and emergency services to the local Communities of St Helens, Knowsley, and parts of Halton and Liverpool.

New Hospitals

The Trust is spread across two main sites. Whiston Hospital provides all acute services and has 724 beds, St Helens Hospital provides elective surgical services’, care of the elderly, with 232 beds plus an out-patient department.

These are both currently undergoing a £338million development over the next three years to provide state of the art, modern healthcare facilities for the local communities.

PathoSys® at St Helens & Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

PathoSys® will be interfaced to the iSoft iLab TP (formerly TelePath) system thereby extending the functionality of the iLab TP system to include the Royal College of Pathologists Dataset Reporting.

The PathoSys® reports generated at St Helens will be available across the North Mersey Pathology cluster via the GP Requesting and reporting system.

AES will be exhibiting PathoSys® at the ACP Spring meeting held at the University Hospital Of North Durham.

The meeting is being held on Friday the 28th of March under the title ’What is new in Pathology in the North-East’.

Any Pathologists or Laboratory staff attending the conference are invited to drop by our stand and learn more about AES Medical and our products.

AES Medical has upgraded the East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust PathoSys® server to Windows 2003 R2.

This now brings all PathoSys® servers onto the same platform and provides the Users at East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust with a better user experience with local printing, hi-colour graphics and local file access.

AES Medical would like to thank the East Kent IT team for their assistance and support.