Developing Quality Competence in Medical Laboratories (DQCML)
Membership
| Name |
Position |
Country |
Term |
Time in Office |
| M. Thomas |
Consultant |
UK |
2nd |
2012 01 - 2014 12 |
| J. Smith |
Member |
UK |
1st |
2012 01 - 2014 12 |
Terms of reference
This major initiative for the EMD is aimed at informing emerging
laboratory services on all aspects of quality, but concentrating
particularly on internal quality control, external quality
assessment and working towards laboratory accreditation with the
adoption of a quality system in line with the international
standard ISO 15189.
Projects
Educational modules, transferable to countries and regions
requesting assistance in these areas have been developed and pilot
projects in Vietnam (in collaboration with the Australian
Association for Clinical Biochemistry), Indonesia and Sri Lanka
have already been supported. The project has been successful
because of close working between the committees of EMD and the
generous sponsorship of Abbott Diagnostics, via the VLP initiative
and Siemens Healthcare, with whom we are working to develop
distance learning packages.
Chair's contact
Dr. Michael THOMAS
Department of Clinical Biochemistry
Royal Free Hospital
Hampstead
London NW3 2QG - UK
e-mail: michael.thomas1@nhs.net