Registration for UK NEQAS Haematology 25th Annual Participants’ meeting

Registration is open from Monday 29 July.  Click here to register.

Poster submission forms are available here,  click here to download the form.

ICSH Guidance on IQC for Blood Cell Counters

The ICSH has published guidance on IQC policy for blood cell counters.  The guidance is free to access from the International Journal of Laboratory Haematology:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ijlh.14212

http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ijlh.14220

Pathology in Practice

UK NEQAS Feature in May Edition of Pathology in Practice

We’re proud to announce that we feature in the May edition of Pathology in Practice. This prominent appearance highlights the exceptional work UK NEQAS undertakes and is introduced with a striking blue front cover.

Readers can find UK NEQAS throughout the publication on pages 3, 7, 11, 15, 16, and 17. The main article, entitled “UK NEQAS: Delivering Far More Than External Quality Assessment,” begins on page 15. In this piece, Liam Whitby, President of UK NEQAS, elaborates on why UK NEQAS is considered a global leader in External Quality Assessment (EQA).

UK NEQAS Pan-disciplinary POCT event

UK NEQAS Schedules for 2024/25

PDF copies of exercise schedules have been uploaded and can be accessed in our documents section. You can also use our online schedules list by clicking here.

The online schedules page allows you to view all the exercises along with the opening, closing and reporting dates. You will also be able to filter down and view schedules for individual schemes. Further to this you can view an individualised schedule for your own PRN from that same page as long as you are logged in. To do this click the Login button, login with your PRN, Identity and Password and click the Distribution schedules option from the drop down menu with your initials.

All schedules allow you to export them as PDFs or Excel sheets so you can download and / or print them.

UK NEQAS IVDR UPDATE

The European Union In Vitro Diagnostics Regulation [Regulation (EU) 2017/746 (EU IVDR)] was implemented on the 26th of May 2022.  A statement of the application of the IVDR to external quality assessment (EQA) services can be found here.