Locum Consultant in Cellular Pathology/Histopathology

Accepting applications until: 25-Feb-2026 23:59

Location: Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel Rd. Town London, E1 1FR

Contract type & working pattern: 12 months (Fixed term) Full time - 10 sessions per week

Specialty: Cellular Pathology

Job Overview

Clinical Pathology

Consultant Cellular Pathologist /Histopathologist
Full Time 10 PA Locum post x 1 in lymphoreticular pathology and non gynaecological cytology

Applications are invited for a 12 month locum cover Consultant Cellular Pathologist / Histopathologist post in the Department of Cellular Pathology at Barts Health NHS Trust. The appointment is to provide Histopathology reporting within lymphoreticular pathology and non gynaecological cytology for Barts Health and the other hospitals for which we undertake service provision. Barts Health is one of the UK’s leading healthcare providers and the largest Trust in the NHS. Together, our hospitals - Newham University Hospital, St Bartholomew’s, The Royal London and Whipps Cross - deliver high quality clinical care to the people of East London and further afield.  The hospitals offer a full portfolio of services to the local community and are home to some of the UK’s leading specialist centres. The upheaval of COVID-19 has provided our consultant team with the opportunity to implement flexible working, both geographic and temporal, enabling us to deliver an efficient service in spite of the restrictions of lockdown. Going forward, we hope to retain and capitalise upon these changes which we feel  allow us  to maintain a healthy  work-life balance whilst continuing to  provide an excellent service for our users, both of which are major priorities for our Department. 

BLPG Autumn Meeting 2025

We invite you to join your BLPG colleagues in Cambridge or Virtually for the BLPG Autumn Meeting 2025 which is being held as a Hybrid Meeting at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge and virtually as a Zoom Webinar.

The Meeting is being recorded with delegate access being for three months. Following delegate access period, the recordings will be moved to the ‘Members Only’ section of the website (Coming Soon)

Autumn Meeting Recordings

Delegates can access until the end of February 2026 individual recordings of each presentation from the BLPG Autumn Meeting via the link below. This page is password protected, passwords are distributed together with your Certificates of Participation.

BLPG Summer Meeting 2025

Friday 13 June 2025, click on image above to jump straight to the report.

Ming-Qing Du, MB, PhD, FRCPath

A Memorable Milestone in Lymphoma Pathology

We were delighted to welcome a record-breaking 90+ members to the BLPG Summer Meeting 2025—an inspiring reflection of our community’s continued growth and engagement.

Ghent Pathology 2025 Highlights

Our report from Ghent Pathology 2025 is available on our Past Meetings section, click on image above to jump straight to the report.

Spring Meeting – RSM April 2025

Friday 25 April 2025 | The Royal Society of Medicine, London, click on image above to jump straight to the report.

BLPG Collaborative Research Activities

The BLPG would like to promote research collaboration among members. If you have a research idea and need specific help, such as additional molecular studies not available in routine histopathology, or case contributions etc, BLPG would like to facilitate such collaborative research activities. Please complete the online form, linked below, and we will advertise them among BLPG members.

Prof. Ming-Qing Du - Professor of Oncological Pathology - University of Cambridge
Research Officer - BLPG

BLPG Annual Research Grant

In addition, we are offering an annual research grant to support these projects. For this year, a £5,000 grant will be awarded to a selected project. Full details of the application process and scoring criteria will be provided soon.

This is a fantastic opportunity to collaborate, innovate, and advance our field. We look forward to hearing from you and supporting your research

BLPG Meetings

We shall shortly be adding details of upcoming and recent BLPG Meetings and Webinars.

Additionally, we will provide a useful calendar of BLPG and related meetings.

BLPG Membership

We are renewing our membership database

Please use the link below to register your most updated details and set up your direct debit (select Direct Bank Transfer as payment method), if you have not done so previously.

Any UK based consultant who has completed training in pathology and is reporting or has interest in haematopathology, or trainee who is enrolled in a UK-based pathology training program or allied health professional can join as member.

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Membership benefits include:

Members have access to reduced fees on our biannual meetings, will receive exclusive access to webinars delivered by haematopathology experts and their recordings

Members are eligible to post on the recently renewed society website, where they can advertise events and job posts for free, and will be able to access an exclusive haematopathology job board and event calendar.

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