News & Announcements

ICSH Tribute to Dr Mitchell Lewis

Early in August 2018 we were saddened to hear of the passing of Dr Mitchell Lewis.
Professor Sam Machin was commissioned earlier in 2018 to pay tribute to Dr Lewis's outstanding contribution to Laboratory Haematology.

This tribute can be read on the ICSH website at the following link:
https://icsh.org/a-tribute-to-dr-s-m-lewis/

UK NEQAS Haematology 21st Annual Participants’ Meeting

UK NEQAS Haematology 21st Annual Participants’ Meeting:
Tuesday 9 October 2018 at the National Conference Centre, Birmingham.
Delegate Dinner: Monday 8 October 2018, Windmill Village Hotel
Credited for CPD by the IBMS and the RCPath


Programme: click here
Poster Session Entry Form: click here

Joint UK NEQAS (BTLP) and BBTS SIG Annual Meeting

Joint UK NEQAS (BTLP) and BBTS SIG Annual Meeting:
Tuesday 20 November 2018 at the National Conference Centre, Birmingham.
Delegate Dinner: Monday 19 November 2018, Windmill Village Hotel
Credited for CPD by the IBMS and the RCPath

Programme: click here

The BTLP 2016-17 Biennial Report to Participants is available

The Biennial Report to Participants can be downloaded in the "Documents" section of this website or by clicking here.

Registration is now open for the Microbiology Division Scientific Meeting - Rapid Diagnoses matter to us!

UK NEQAS Microbiology will be organising its Scientific Meeting day on Friday 30 November 2018. The topic this year is: Rapid Diagnoses Matter to us! To see more information and registration details please click here

New version of the Haematology Participants’ Manual Issued July 2018 available

The new version of the Haematology Participants’ Manual can be downloaded in the "Documents" section of this website.

New version of the BTLP Participants’ Manual Issued July 2018 available

The new version of the BTLP Participants’ Manual can be downloaded in the "Documents" section of this website.

Schedules

UK NEQAS Schedules for 2018/19

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

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 shcemes. 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.

2018 Re-Registration

UK NEQAS Haematology and Transfusion:

The re-registration for the Haematology and BTLP schemes for the financial year 2018-19 is now closed. You can still login and access the quote page if you need to view your quote or provide a PO number. If you require further changes to your registration details please email us

Suppliers of G6PD assay reagents 06/07/2017 UPDATE

A field notice is available on the UK NEQAS Haematology website giving information on possible alternative suppliers of G6PD assay reagents. This document can be accessed here.

Please note that the supply of G6PD screening kits is not affected and these remain available from Trinity Biotech.

An updated version of the information on alternative G6PD assay kit suppliers is available (uploaded on 07/07/2017), with additional companies.

Password update

We have recently increased our security and because we will now allow you to set your own passwords, we have hashed the passwords in our database which means they are no longer visible to us. Current passwords are now case sensitive and must match exactly to the password originally provided. If you have forgotten your password or now you are unable to log in please use the “Reset my password” facility which is explained in further detail here.