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Consultant Haematologist

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The appointee will join an enthusiastic and friendly department which is an integral part of the Division of Medicine at the QEH.

Haematology laboratory services at King’s Lynn are part of the Eastern Pathology Alliance (EPA) group consisting of the QEH, the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital and The James Paget Hospital. EPA is a UKAS accredited service. In the QEH we have an integrated Haemochemistry Department, which is located on the ground floor of the Pathology Laboratory. Haemochemistry integration with multi-skilling of BMS staff allows for improved efficiency and shared working. Histopathology services are located at Addenbrookes Hospital along with the haemato-oncology diagnostic service.

The QEH is part of the clinical haemato-oncology MDT in Addenbrookes Hospital.

The appointed consultant would be expected to contribute to the on-going service improvement programme developing:

• Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT)
• Cost Improvement programme (CIP)
• Implementing evidence based new ways of working when necessary
• To provide a continuing responsibility for patients in their charge and in partnership with colleagues working for the proper function of the department.
• Each Consultant will be responsible for seeing patients attending their new and follow up outpatient clinics and for managing their inpatients, outpatients and chemotherapy/day unit attenders
• When on call, to offer advice and clinical help requested by health care professionals in the hospital or the community, and this will include opinions on laboratory results, blood product administration, blood films, bone marrows and the management of bleeding and clotting disorders.
• To also offer clinical advice over the telephone to first line doctors working in the Hospital. Much of the haematology clinical work is covered by regularly updated protocols. The post holder may be required to undertake other duties appropriate for a consultant haematologist not otherwise specified

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