Coronavirus: COVID-19 resources hub
This page contains information available on COVID-19 relevant to the practice of pathology. Many of the resources were developed during the earlier stages of the pandemic before the roll out of the vaccine programme and when little was known about the impact of infection from SARS-CoV-2. As the COVID pandemic moves into a different phase and with restrictions and infection rates varying across the UK, the guidance should be amended and applied as necessary in response to local rates and risk from COVID-19 infection.. The clinical risk of departing from any guidance should be assessed and documented.
We have also setup a page for trainees, which contains College guidance and advice about COVID-19 relevant to trainees.
Health Education England e-Learning for Healthcare (HEE e-LfH) has created a freely accessible COVID-19-related e-learning programme for the UK health and care workforce. The training is free to all and does not require registration or login.
If you notice any out-of-date information, or are aware of guidance and advice that would be relevant to the membership that we do not currently list here, please contact us at [email protected].
Public Health England and the Department of Health and Social Care provide the latest information on COVID-19 for health professionals, including guidance on the assessment and management of suspected UK cases.
Updates from the UKHSA about the latest COVID variant and guidance can be found under 'Operational guidance and advice'.
Documents and resources are available by clicking on the drop-down arrow under each heading.
Clinical guidance and advice
General guidance
#TestingMethods2020
The College, in partnership with the Department of Health and Social Care, the UK Bioindustry Association, British In Vitro Diagnostics Association, has setup a sourcing platform to seek new and novel solutions to help deliver 100,000 coronavirus tests a day by the end of April.
You can register to contribute in seconds, either with your email address or by signing in with your social media account (Twitter, Facebook, Google or LinkedIn). If you would prefer to put your idea forward confidentially to the closed part of this website, you can do that too.
Please do tell other people who might be able to contribute. You can tweet about the platform using the hashtag #TestingMethods2020.
Infection prevention and control
This webinar shared the latest validation and evaluation data of LAMP and LFDs by the experts who performed the studies and analysis.
Histopathology specimens, sections and slides
Care of the deceased
Specialty specific guidance
Placental changes of chronic histiocytic intervillositis & COVID-19
Recent cases have been reported which suggest a possible association between maternal COVID-19 infection and placental changes of chronic histiocytic intervillositis, sometimes with overlap with massive perivillous fibrin deposition. If placental examination reveals such pathology immunohistochemical staining to detect SARS-CoV-2 may be indicated.
MBRRACE-UK and our own perinatal leads within the College together with other stakeholders are monitoring the situation.
Operational guidance and advice
Devolved nations information
International resources
Letters and statements
College conferences
