Pathology is the study of disease.
Over 70% of diagnoses in the NHS involve pathology, so it really is a central part of health care, both in hospitals and in your GP’s surgery.
Pathology is not just a single specialty, it is made up of 19 different specialties, including histopathology, medical microbiology, clinical chemistry, virology, medical genetics, clinical embryology, haematology and toxicology. To find out more about what these specialties involves, see the glossary.
