A company launched in 2005 to provide a rapid diagnostic reporting service for histopathology and cytology is seeing its workload grow month on month. Backlogs online reporting service is being used increasingly by hospital pathology departments as a cost-effective alternative to locum recruitment, short-term holiday cover or longer-term support.
Dr Robin Moseley, a consultant pathologist from Cambridge and one of the founders of Backlogs, has direct experience of the challenges involved in managing laboratory workloads. He explained how the Backlogs system works: “Using our service takes only a telephone call.
We then arrange for our medical couriers to collect the samples, which are assigned immediately to appropriate specialists within our UK network of consultant pathologists. They then report cases directly online, making information available immediately to clients via our secure web-based system.”
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