In the effort to provide improved patient care and outcomes, hematology wards often require a high volume of samples to be turned around quickly, whilst still ensuring confidence in the results. In this video, Gary Tye, senior biomedical scientist at Blackpool Victoria Hospital, highlights the integral role of reliable slide staining and centrifugation technology in enabling the production of blood films, bone marrows, and cytospins in a standardized fashion, quicker than previous manual methods.