Workforce planning and strategy
Workforce planning helps to get the right people with the right skills in the right place, at the right time and at the right costs.
Workforce and engagement
The Workforce and Engagement team supports and shapes the pathology workforce across the UK, ensuring it is equipped to meet current and future challenges.
Pathology is at the heart of healthcare, yet the profession faces a growing workforce crisis, with persistent challenges in recruitment, retention and rising demand.
To address these pressures, we coordinate workforce data and intelligence, shape strategy, support recruitment through job descriptions and advisory appointment committees (AACs), and respond to workforce-related policy and calls for evidence – helping to secure a sustainable workforce that can deliver the highest standards of patient care.
Our vision is clear: a pathology workforce that has the right resources and are given the right support required to deliver the highest quality of care for patients.
What we do
Employing pathologists
We work to maintain standards in pathology by reviewing and approving consultant and SAS level job descriptions, both medical and scientific.
Our advisory review and invited review service
The Royal College of Pathologists has a role in assisting healthcare organisations to evaluate a service or an individual's practice, where concerns have been raised, discover whether problems do exist, and if so, in which areas, and support healthcare organisations in implementing standards.
