PATIENTS will benefit from new pathology services.
In the past year the Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Trust has appointed a consultant microbiologist and specialist nurse to expand the infection control team.
Funding is in place for a fourth consultant histopathologist.
A laboratory quality assurance manager is to be appointed to audit the service.
A new mortuary is being built in Wigan, due to be completed in October
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