Supporting pathology partners: long-term training options are now available

As a result, laboratory teams face practical challenges everyday such as the growing need to keep up to date with technological developments and acquiring the knowledge to get the most from instrumentation. These issues highlight the need for the development of long-term partnerships between suppliers and customers. It also puts emphasis on finding a way of taking training away from the hospital-based laboratory environment, where the pressure to turn around increasing volumes of work rapidly can sometimes make on-site training distracting, if not impossible.

To address these challenges, Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics recently opened its new Siemens Academy Training and Education Centre at the company’s headquarters in Frimley, Surrey. With this centre now open, Siemens can truly provide UK customers with a wide range of training options, offering a multitude of schedules, programmes, opportunities and topics for education.
Training beyond instrumentation.

As workload and efficiency pressures lead to increased demand for the automation of traditional routine laboratory functions, there is a requirement for different skills to be learned during progress up the professional career ladder. Topics such as Lean process improvement, Six Sigma and other workflow management tools have become an important part of the education of laboratory professionals.