The Scottish Clinical Biochemistry Network brings together professionals from across Scotland to work in a coordinated manner to ensure the provision of high quality, efficient and equitable clinical biochemistry diagnostic services.
It was established to work across Health Board boundaries; acting as a conduit between the service and Scottish Government / central projects.
By facilitating and fostering cooperation between stakeholders, the SCBN aims to enable sharing of best practice, innovation and improvement . It sets out to achieve harmonisation where possible and provide a forum for the introduction and evaluation of new and developing concepts.
The SCBN Management Team
Lead Clinician
Mr Jim Allison (NHS Grampian)
Scientific Manager
Mrs Janet Hogg (NHS Ayrshire & Arran)
Programme Manager
Dr Catherine Colquhoun (NHS National Services)
Programme Support Officer
Ms Nurjan Rakymova (NHS National Services)
SCBN Annual Report
The Annual Report sets out the key achievements and challenges of the SCBN along with plans for the coming year. Copies of recent annual reports are available here.
SCBN Five Year Workplan (2016-2021)
The SCBN is committed to ensuring that there are improvements to clinical biochemistry diagnostic services both in the short and long term, and that these positively impact on patients. The Network has coproduced a succinct five-year workplan which shares this longer term vision across all of our stakeholders.
Strategies
The SCBN Steering Group have endorsed the following strategies: