Cases may be referred off site for a number of reasons:
- Where the consultant reporting a case feels that it is sufficiently rare, difficult or unusual to warrant an external expert opinion
- Where there is a network requirement for review of a cancer diagnosis
- Where the patient is discussed by a specialist or network multi-disciplinary team (MDT) as part of agreed network practice
- Where the patient is referred between locality and specialist teams in the network for treatment (or diagnostic) purposes and review of existing pathological material is requested or forms part of agreed network practice
- Where the requested test is not included in the department repertoire (e.g. HER2 testing)
- Diagnostic reporting to maintain turnaround times
Referral sites and associated consultant pathologists
Ceders-Sinai Medical Centre, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Dr J Sirintropin – Urology
Centre for Molecular Pathology, The Royal Marsden, Cotswold Road, Sutton, Surrey, SM2 5NG
- Molecular Diagnostics – BRAF
Indiana University School of Medicine, Pathology Laboratory, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
- Professor Thomas M. Ulbright – Gynaecologic, gastroenterologic and urologic pathology bladder cancer diagnostic service as well as expert opinions
Royal Victoria Infirmary, Queen Victoria Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4LP
- Dr Christopher Bacon – Lymphoma
- Dr Philip Sloane – Head and neck and maxillofacial
- Dr Katrina Wood – Lymphoma
- Dr Petra Didley – Soft tissue
- Electron Microscopy Department – Electron microscopy
University Hospital North Tees, Hardwick Road, Stockton-on-Tees, TS19 8PE
- Dr Shonali Natu – Thyroid
- Histology department – HER2 testing (Breast)
Cheltenham General Hospital, Sandford Road, Cheltenham, GL53 7AN
- Professor Neil Shepherd – Gastrointestinal
Department of Pathology, Royal Group of Hospitals Trust, Belfast
- Professor Glenn McCluggage – Gynaecology
Royal Brompton Hospital, Sydney Street, London, SW3 6NP
- Professor Andrew Nicholson – Lung
- Dr M Sheppard – Heart
Royal Free Hospital, Pond Street, London, NW3 2QG
- National Amyloidosis Centre – Amyloid
Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Glossop Road, Sheffield, S10 2JF
- Dr Hardeep Singh Mudhar – Skin
- Dr David Slater – Skin
Royal Marsden Hospital, Fulham Road, London, SW3 6JJ
- Professor Cyril Fisher – Soft tissue and tumour pathology
Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, Mytton Oak Road, Shrewsbury, SY3 8XQ
- Professor Archie Malcolm – Soft tissue
- Dr Nick Green – Soft tissue
Department of Pathology, Rockefeller Building, University Street, London, WC1E 6JJ
- Immunocytochemistry Department – Antibodies not part of the departments repertoire
Division of Neuropathology, Box 126, UCL Institue of Neurology, The National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London, WC1N 3BG
- Professor Sebastian Brandner – Neurodegenerative diseases
Evelyn House, 142-144 New Cavendish Street, London, W1W 6YF
- Unilabs – Diagnostic reporting service
Gloucestershire Royal Hospital, Great Western Road, Gloucester, GL1 3NN
- Dr Neil Shepherd – GI
Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Dr Jason L. Hornick – Anatomical, gastrointestinal, soft tissue and surgical pathology
Haematological Malignancy Diagnostic Service (HMDS), St James’s Hospital, Leeds, LS9 7TF
- Dr Andrew Jack – Lymphomas
Institute of Human Genetics, Central Parkway, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 3BZ
- Dr N Brown – Genetics and ALK
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Professor Johnathan Epstein – Urology
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Dr Esther Oliva – Gynaecological and genitourinary pathology
Molecular Neurosciences, Institute of Neurology, Faculty of Brain Sciences, UCL, London, WC1N 3BG
- Dr Shu An – Molecular studies
Molecular Pathology, Southampton General Hospital, SO16 6YD
- Dr Elizabeth Hodges – Clonality studies
National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance Unit, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, EH4 2XU
- Professor James Ironside – CJD cases
Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Papworth Everard, Cambridge, CB23 3RE
- Dr Martin Goddard – Cardiothoracic pathology
Source Bioscience UK Ltd, 1 Orchard Place, Nottingham Business Park, Nottingham, NG8 6PX
- Source Bioscience – Gastric HER2 testing
St James’s University Hospital, Leeds, LS9 7TF
- Professor Mary Sheppard – Cardiovascular pathology
St Johns Institute of Dermatology, St Thomas Hospital, London, SE1 7EH
- Dr Will Merchant – Dermatopathology
Surgical Pathology, Brigham & Womens Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Professor Chris Fletcher – Soft tissue
Royal Liverpool Hospital, Prescot Street, Liverpool, L7 8XP
- Dr Tim Helliwell – Head and neck