§ Dr. LadymanTo ask the Secretary of State for Health on what date the Council for Professions Supplementary to Medicine refused training recognition to the Kent and Canterbury Hospitals NHS Trust Pathology Service; and what progress has been made by the Kent and Canterbury Hospitals NHS Trust to address the concerns of the Council for Professions Supplementary to Medicine expressed at the time they refused the Pathology Service training recognition. [17789]
§ Mr. MilburnThe Boards of the Council are the statutory bodies responsible for training recognition. The Medical Laboratory Technicians (MLT) Board withheld training recognition for the Histopathology/Cytology Department on 15 September 1992. This decision did not affect the clinical chemistry, haematology and hospital transfusion science or microbiology, which all received approval.
Subsequent inspection has shown that some improvements have been made; however, the MLT Board decided on 14 January 1997 to withhold approval for training in cellular pathology (histopathology) until the Board's requirements have been met.