AQMLM News
15.10.25 Zoom 56 is open for registration
The topic is ‘Value-Based Laboratory Medicine’. Wednesday 12th November 2025.
28.09.25 Zoom 56 is added to the Zoom schedule
The topic is ‘Value-Based Laboratory Medicine’. Wednesday 12th November 2025.
28.09.25 Zoom 55 is open for registration
The topic is ‘Result Interpretation – Past, Present & Future – a Personal View’. Wednesday 15th October 2025.
08.08.25 Zoom 55 is added to the Zoom schedule
The topic is ‘Result Interpretation – Past, Present & Future – a Personal View’. Wednesday 15th October 2025.
16.07.25 Follow-up questions to Zoom meetings
Participants who attend our Zoom meetings are most welcome to ask follow-up questions or make further comments. Please email us.
16.07.25 Zoom 54 is open for registration
The topic is “Quality Management of Laboratory Developed Tests”. Tuesday 9th September 2025.
16.07.25 Reference provided at Zoom 53
“Patient risk management in laboratory medicine: an international survey to assess the severity of harm associated with erroneous reported results”. Link here.
26.06.25 Zoom 53 is open for registration
This the postponed Zoom 49 with the topic “Proactive Risk Management” on Tuesday 15th July at 11:00 UK time. If you registered previously for Zoom 49, there is no need to re-register.
19.06.25 Health Services Safety Investigations Body
19.06.25 PSIRF Preparation Guide
Discussed today at Zoom 52, here is a copy of the PSIRF Preparation Guide
28.05.25 Zoom 52 is open for registration
The topic is “Applying the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework”.
07.05.25 An important article on Value Based Laboratory Medicine
This is a very important article from Mario Plebani. Please go here. We are likely to have a Zoom on this topic!
25.04.25 Zoom 54 is added to our schedule
Zoom 54 will be on Tuesday 9th September. The topic will be ‘Quality Management of Laboratory Developed Tests’.
25.04.25 Change of topic emphasis for Zoom 52
After comments made at Zoom 50, we have decided to use Zoom 52 to discuss the application of the NHS Patient Safety Incident Reporting Framework (PSIRF) to laboratory medicine.
23.04.25 Zoom 51 is open for registration
The topic is ‘Building Sustainability into the Quality Management Syestem’.
17.04.25 Changes to AQMLM Governance
We have made changes to the roles of Directors. Nigel Coles is now Chair of AQMLM, Jonathan Middle becomes Honorary President and Mike Thomas becomes Past President. Please go to the Governance page here.
15.04.25 An interesting publication on AI
“Embedding Internal Accountability Into Health Care Institutions for Safe, Effective, and Ethical Implementation of Artificial Intelligence Into Medical Practice: A Mayo Clinic Case Study”
01.04.25 AQMLM Directorships
We are looking to recruit two Directors to help take AQMLM forward at this time of change in the NHS. If you have been a member for a number of years and have regularly supported our events, please email us on mail@aqmlm.org.uk and we will provide further details and answer any questions you might have.
21.03.25 An interesting publication on quality improvement
MK Bohn et al “Primer Part 1 – Preparing a laboratory quality improvement project”
Clin Biochem 2024 May:127-128:110764. doi: 10.1016/j.clinbiochem.2024.110764. Epub 2024 Apr 16.
14.03.25 Zoom 50 is open for registration
Zoom 50 – “Workshop on Root Cause Analysis” on Tuesday 22nd April, is open for registration.
14.03.25 Zoom 49 is postponed
It is with regret that for logistical reasons, we must postpone Zoom 49 to a later date. It will become Zoom 53 on 15th July 2025. Confirmed participants need not re-register.
10.03.25 Future Zoom topics
We would like your views on the next set of Zoom topics for the second half of 2025. Maybe look at the previous topics and suggest those that you would like us to re-visit. Please reply using the Contact form or email us.
08.03.25 Lower subscription fee
If you join AQMLM or renew your membership now, we will charge the lower fee of £38.
05.03.25 Zoom 49 is open for registration
Zoom 49 – ‘Proactive Risk Management’ on 20th March is open for registration.