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UK NEQAS Clinical Chemistry comprises five centres which are members of the UK NEQAS Charitable consortium (Charity Number: 1044013) and which provide External Quality Assessment (EQA) / Proficiency Testing services. EQA service provision is both regulatory and educational. The primary purpose is to ensure participants are reporting diagnostic test results appropriate for use in patient […]

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The Innovation Agency (Academic Health Science Network for the North West Coast):Support available to implement updated NICE Diagnostics Guidance DG40: High Sensitivity troponin tests for the early rule out of NSTEMI

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The Innovation Agency (Academic Health Science Network for the North West Coast) For Attention of UK Labs Only Support available to implement updated NICE Diagnostics Guidance DG40: High Sensitivity troponin tests for the early rule out of NSTEMI. As the national (NHS England) working group leading the programme to boost the NICE-recommended use of high-sensitivity […]

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UK NEQAS Pan-disciplinary Educational Webinars 2020

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Throughout October and November 2020, UK NEQAS will be hosting a weekly series of pan-disciplinary educational webinars, focusing on reducing pre-analytical errors in laboratory medicine. Each session will be led by a subject expert and the format of the webinars will be a short talk followed by a 15 minute Q&A session to round things […]

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NT-proBNP Commentary (Distribution 264)

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As Abbott (calibrator product recall) and Siemens (method realignment) have or are making changes to their NT-proBNP methods I thought a short commentary on this analyte may be useful. This can be found at the end of your report for distribution 264.  Alan Reid (Scheme Organizer)