Documentation and Guidance

General

Report of the Review of NHS Pathology Services in England Chaired by Lord Carter of Coles 
https://www.networks.nhs.uk/nhs-networks/peninsula-pathology-network/documents/CarterReviewPathologyReport.pdf

Best Practice Guidelines – Clinical responsibility for cytology services (August 2019) 
https://www.rcpath.org/uploads/assets/81dcaa1f-23db-48af-ae6f1f00b4727adf/BPR-Clinical-responsibility-for-cytology-services.pdf

Guidance notes for medico-legal review of cytology material: points for consideration (February 2023)

Cervical cytology

BAC Code of Practice

BAC Code of Practice (2022) https://www.britishcytology.org.uk/resources/BAC_CoP_May_2022_30.5.22.pdfHPV

Call & Recall

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cervical-screening-call-and-recall-administration-best-practice

Primary care

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cervical-screening-cervical-sample-taker-training

Cervical Screening Laboratory

Primary Screening Implementation https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cervical-screening-primary-hpv-screening-implementation

Sample Acceptance Policy https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cervical-screening-accepting-samples-in-laboratories

HPV Testing https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cervical-screening-laboratory-testing-for-human-papillomavirus

Failsafe guidance https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cervical-screening-cytology-reporting-failsafe

Histology Laboratory Reporting Guidance

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cervical-screening-histopathology-reporting-handbook

Colposcopy Guidance

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cervical-screening-programme-and-colposcopy-management

CSPL/Cancer Audit/Disclosure Guidance

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cervical-screening-role-of-the-cervical-screening-provider-lead

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cervical-screening-auditing-procedures

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cervical-screening-disclosure-of-audit-results-toolkit

Diagnostic cytology

The role of biomedical scientists within the provision of a diagnostic cytopathology service 2023

Tissue Pathways for Diagnostic Cytopathology (October 2019)

Royal College of Pathologist November 2022 Guidance on reporting of thyroid cytology specimens

Covid section

RCPath advice on histopathology frozen sections and cytology FNA during infectious disease outbreaks

RCPath article - cytology and the pandemic (July 2020)

RCPath advice on the opening of fresh or unfixed histopathological specimens during infectious disease outbreaks

COVID-19 - recommendations for laboratory work (IBMS, RCPath, ACP and ACB 29th March 2020)

The COVID-19 pandemic: Implications for the cytology laboratory The Journal of American Society for Cytopathology

Coronavirus disinfection in histopathology

PHE COVID-19: safe handling and processing for samples in laboratories

Guidance on infection prevention and control for COVID-19

NHS Guidance on Coronavirus