Introduction

This survey is being sent to UK Clinical Directors and/or Leads for pathology and laboratory medicine services for completion by them or their designated representative.

If you do not have a Chemical Pathology / Clinical Biochemistry service, please quit the survey and email us at workforce@rcpath.org to let us know.  
 
The College needs you to participate in this survey so that we can improve our workforce data.  We will triangulate the data you provide with data from the RCPath online census to ensure we have as comprehensive a picture of the UK workforce in pathology as possible.  The College is also seeking to obtain a realistic idea of the number of vacant posts in the UK in this specialty. 

It would help you to look at the list of questions we are asking so that you can collate the answers before you start.  A list of the questions is available on the College website at: https://www.rcpath.org/profession/workforce/workforce-planning/workforce-survey-of-clinical-biochemistry.html Please prepare your data before starting the survey.

Your feedback is important and the data you provide will be used anonymously in an RCPath Workforce Report which will include aggregated statistics. 

We appreciate that some of the data we are requesting may be regarded as sensitive.  Please be assured that the information that you provide will be kept confidential and not shared with third parties.

In order to obtain 100% response rate we will be following up with telephone calls / emails to those who do not complete this survey.

Please note that the closing date for responses will be Thursday 30th November 2017.

Thank you for your help with this important survey.

T