Training

In the first year of training, there are attachments in surgicals, post mortems, neuropathology, paediatric pathology and cytology.  Click here for more details on the histopathology training in Wales.

Hospitals

The University Hospital of Wales is the largest hospital in the Cardiff and the Vale NHS Trust.  It is a 968 bed teaching hospital in the city of Cardiff, providing comprehensive clinical services to a population of 500,000.  It also provides regional and sub-regional specialist services in cardiothoracic surgery, neurosurgery, renal dialysis and transplantation, bone marrow transplantation, infectious diseases and medical genetics, and acts as a tertiary referral centre for South East Wales and beyond, a population of up to 1.5 million.  There are very close links with the Cardiff University, which is based on the same site.

The Pathology Department is an integrated academic and NHS department that provides comprehensive consultant-led clinical histopathology and cytology and autopsy service to the Trust, undergraduate teaching to 295 medical and 55 dental students (per annum), postgraduate teaching, and undertakes clinical and basic science research.  The clinical department serves the University Hospital of Wales, local General Practitioners and the South East Wales Cancer Centre at Velindre.  It also provides specialist neuropathology, paediatric pathology and molecular dianostic services to most of Wales and houses the Wales Institute of Forensic Medicine.  All of the consultants have a specialist field of interest, within which they undertake research and provide specialist second opinions to pathologists in Wales and beyond.  Click here for the current annual clinical workload of the Department.

There are 15 consultant pathologists (including clinical academics with consultant status), including two paediatric pathologists, two neuropathologists, and three forensic pathologists. 

LLandough Hospital

Llandough Hospital has approximately 500 beds and servies the west of Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan, a population of approximately 200,000.  In addition to comprehensive DGH services to the local popluation, it provides specialist services in respiratory medicine, paediatric oncology and toxicology.  There is a close link with Cardiff University, with four clinical academic departments being based on site.

The Histopathology and Cytopathology Departments provide diagnostic services to the who9le of the Trust and deal with all of the gynaecological cytology for the city of Cardiff and beyond.  The histopathology department receives a large number of thoracic, breast, lymphoreticular and gastrintestinal specimens, and undertakes clinical research in pulmonary pathology, notably industrial lung disease.  Numerous outside referral cases in thoracic and lymphoreticular pathology are also received.  Click here for the current annual clinical workload of the Department.

There are four consultant patholoigst, including one full-time cytopathologist. 

Royal Glamorgan Hospital

The Royal Glamorgan Hospital is a recently opened busy District General Hospital near Llantrisant, 10 miles to the North of Cardiff.  It is one of two hospitls that together serve a population of over 320,000 int he northern parts of Bro Taf Health Authority.  All major specialties are represented within the hospital with the exception of cardiothoracic surgery and neurosurgery.  The Histopathology Department is well equipped to provide a comprehensive histopathology, cytopathology and autopsy service.  Click here for the current annual clinical workload of the Department. 

There are three consultant pathologists.

Swansea NHS Trust

Two main hospitals, Singleton and Morriston, make up the Swansea NHS Trust and the South West Wales Cancer Centre.  The hospitals also host the newly opened Swansea Clinical School in collaboration with University College, Swansea and Cardiff University, with a graduate entry MB BCh programme of 70 students per annum.  There are Cellular Pathology laboratories at each hospital but these are managed jointly in a single Directorate of Pathology.  Click here for the current annual clinical workload of the Department.    

There are currently eight consultant pathologists.