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Not really clinical chemistry but an issue which may affect a significant number of members of the ACB who are Clinical Cytologists. Our laboratory manager recently attended a meeting at Keele university where professor Dyson was commenting on the current shortfall of histologists and the projected nightmare scenario of 300 unfilled vacancies in 5 years time. He (apparently) made the comment that some clinical cytologists were moving into Grade C Clinical Scientists posts effectively running cytology departments and that this may help with the staffing problems in the future. Is this not a fantastic opportunity for clinical cytologists to exploit?. It maybe that clinical cytologists could be eligible to study for and take an MRCPath in cytology. I would be interested to know what the groundswell of opinion is on this topic. Contraversially yours John O'Connor ACB Webmaster %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%