Committees and Administration

There are a number of committees within the CMGS which are responsible for the running of the Society, monitoring and setting standards of services and training staff members of service laboratories. 

The committees are listed on the left, please follow the links for information on their remits, membership and further information.

**New**

Newborn Screening Laboratory Quality Group want a CMGS Representative

Any expressions of interest to Graham Taylor please by the end of June.

Following a review of laboratory quality for the UK Newborn Screening
Programmes (dried blood spot screening), the UK Newborn Screening
Programme Centre and NHS Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia Programme, with
support from the National Screening Committee Director of Programmes,
Anne Mackie, wish to establish a Quality Group.

The group will be newborn screening focussed and bring together all
laboratory quality matters relevant to blood spot screening in the UK.
There will be joint engagement with the bodies responsible for current
QA schemes.

I am writing to invite you to nominate a representative from CMGS,
with an interest and involvement in the Cystic Fibrosis and MCADD
newborn screening programmes, to this group.

The Chairman is Rowena Clayton, Consultant in Public Health, West
Midlands.

The first meeting will take place on Wednesday 10th September 2008 in
the Ground Floor Room B,
Government Office for the West Midlands
5 St Philip's Place
Birmingham
B3 2PW

The second meeting is scheduled for November 18th 2008, venue TBA.