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Welcome to the North West School of Pathology

 

Health Education England North West (HEE NW) School of Pathology aims to provide the best training and support to all our trainees.

Dr Lipsita Patnaik is the current Head of School for the School of Pathology and Dr Mumtaz Patel is Associate Dean. 

Opportunities exist within the Deanery for subspecialty training in all of the pathology disciplines.

The School actively encourages trainees to be involved in school activity and have trainee representatives on the school board and executive.

The School oversees the training in Chemical Pathology & Metabolic Medicine, Medical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (inc Tropical Medicine), Virology and Histopathology (including the subspecialties of Paediatric Pathology, Forensic Pathology and Neuropathology). The aim is to provide specialist training to ensure new consultants are appointed with the knowledge and skills required for professional practice.

   

 
Head of the North West School of Pathology

 

 

 
Associate Postgraduate Dean for Pathology

  

 

 

Associate Head of School 

 

  

 

 

School of Pathology Key Contacts

 

Specialty	North Western	Mersey
Chemical Pathology	Dr Denise Darby Email:denise.darby@nca.nhs.uk
Infectious Diseases	Dr Alec Bonington Email: alec.bonington@pat.nhs.uk	Dr Sylviane Defres Email: Sylviane.Defres@liverpoolft.nhs.uk
Medical Microbiology and Virology	Dr Andrew Dodgson Email: andrew.dodgson@mft.nhs.uk	Dr Jonathan Folb Email: Jonathan.Folb@liverpoolft.nhs.uk
Histopathology	Dr Edmund Cheesman Email: edmund.cheesman@mft.nhs.uk	Dr Carol Ross Email: carol.ross@sthk.nhs.uk

 

Role	Name	Email
School of Pathology Careers Lead	Bianca Da Gama-Rose Bianca.DaGama-Rose@lthtr.nhs.uk
Academic Representative	Richard Byers r.byers@manchester.ac.uk
LTFT lead	Vinita Mishra vinita.mishra@liverpoolft.nhs.uk

 

 

HEE North West School of Pathology Training Programme Management Team

 

The HEE North West School of Pathology Training Programme Management Team are based at HEE's Liverpool Office.

Role	Name	Email Address	Telephone Number
Programme Support Manager for Pathology	Natalie Dawson	natalie.dawson@hee.nhs.uk	0151 479 2615
Programme Support Co-ordinator for Pathology	Lindsey Robinson	lindsey.robinson@hee.nhs.uk	0151 479 2505
Programme Support Administrator for Pathology	Sally Rylands	pathology.nw@hee.nhs.uk	0151 479 2568

 General enquiries from Trainees should be emailed to the School of Pathology Programme Support Team on the following email address: pathology.nw@hee.nhs.uk

 

HEE North West Lead Employer

 

From 1 October 2018 St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is the Lead Employer for the whole of the North West region.

St Helens & Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Website	www.sharedservices.sthk.nhs.uk
General Queries	Email: lead.employer@sthk.nhs.uk	Tel: 0151 426 1600
Payroll	Email: leademployerpayroll@sthk.nhs.uk	Tel: 0151 290 4658

 Links for Support

 

If you are a trainee experiencing difficulties, please follow this link: https://www.nwpgmd.nhs.uk/tres for further support. 

There is an updated NW SuppoRTT Guidance document available here: https://www.nwpgmd.nhs.uk/supportt-process 

For information on Return to Training: https://www.nwpgmd.nhs.uk/supported-return-to-training 

 

Important Dates

 

 

 

 

 

Useful Links

 The Royal College of Pathology

 Careers Advice

Policies & Procedures

SuppoRTT pre/post absence support - www.nwpgmd.nhs.uk/supportt-process

 

College Registration & ePortfolios

 

Infectious Diseases, Tropical Medicine and General Internal Medicine (GIM) must register with JRCPTB and access the ePortfolio through the College on registration to list all placements, supervisors and WPBAs. All guidance and help will be through the college: https://www.jrcptb.org.uk/eportfolio-information 

Trainees who are joint Medical Microbiology, Medical Virology with Infectious Diseases will need to register as a joint trainee with RCPath: https://www.rcpath.org/trainees/training/register-as-a-trainee/online-registration-form-joint-trainees.html - trainees will access JRCPTB to record training competencies.

Histopathology specialities and Chemical Pathology (incl Metabolic Medicine) must register with Royal College of Pathologists (RCPath) and register to access the LEPT eportfolio system to list all placements, supervisors and WPBAs. All guidance and help will be through the College: https://www.rcpath.org/trainees/assessment/learning-environment-for-pathology-trainees-lept.html 

 

Page Last Updated 28 January 2021