Web Page updated on the 09th November 2010

CPA TRUST FUNDING

The CPA Trust, a registered charity, was set up in 2004 to support the development of improvements in the quality of medical laboratory services. 

CPA TRUST FUNDING

The CPA Trust supported the following bids for the financial year 2009/2010.

 EQA Pilot Funding

•       Interferon Gamma
  Dr William Egner, Sheffield
  £6,000
   

•       Tryptase
  Dr William Egner, Sheffield
  £5,000
   

•       UK NEQAS for Clinical Cytogenetics
  Dr Ros Hastings, Oxford
  £3,000
   

•       Thiopurine S-methyltransferase (TPMT)
  Dr Jonathan Berg, Birmingham
  £4,500
   

•       D-Dimer by Point of Care Testing
  Mr Tim Woods / Professor I D Walker
  £5,750
   

•       UK NEQAS for Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate (ESR)
  Professor Keith Hyde, Watford
  £6,000
   

•       UK NEQAS for Nucleated RBC Counting
  Professor Keith Hyde, Watford
  £5,000

·       Bursaries

•       To develop a universal fetal DNA marker for free fetal DNA (ffDNA) assays, and to use this marker to improve the quality of diagnostic ffDNA testing in the laboratory
  Dr Stephanie Allen, Birmingham
  £2,204
   

•        An evaluation of massively parallel sequencing within a diagnostic laboratory
  Dr Fiona Macdonald, Birmingham
  £5,700
   

Other Funding

This year the CPA Trust has also provided funding of £3,450 towards the restoration and support of the Pathological Museum collection at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry.

In addition, funding of £13,000 has been granted towards the educational meeting “What is Quality in Pathology?” held on 12 and 13 October 2009.