External Quality Assurance
The term external quality assessment (EQA) is used to describe a method that allows for comparison of the laboratory’s testing to a source outside the laboratory. This performance comparison can be made to the performance of a peer group of laboratories or to the performance of a reference laboratory.
The laboratory performance is not subject to any poor performance issues with any of the following schemes.
Laboratory tests/profiles covered by schemes
Biochemistry External Quality Assurance 2020
Haematology and Blood Transfusion External Quality Assurance 2022
Cellular Pathology External Quality Assurance 2017
Immunology External Quality Assurance 2022
Microbiology External Quality Assurance 2023
Point of Care Testing External Quality Assurance 2022
South of Tyne & Wear Pathology Centre
