All our POCT gas machines and co-ox are registered for EQA, 8 at the last
count, the unit with the machine pays the registration cost - it took time
but is accepted practice across all 3 hospital sites now.
Caroline Jagger
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fiona Bethell [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 14 May 2002 10:58
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: procurement guides
>
> I've actually found the procurement guide for glucose meters, provided by
> the NHS purchasing and supplies agency on the intranet (nww.pasa.nhs.uk)
> to
> be quite useful if a bit long at 95 pages. You need to register to get
> full
> access.
>
> You may also remember I posted a message to the main Clin Chem list
> regarding an iStat type instrument marketed by Phillips. Its the IRMA and
> Wendy Bennitt from the MDA tells me they haven't yet evaluated it. WEQAS
> know of 1 registered user but there are several sites with multiple units
> that aren't registered. It is possible Agilent technologies who were
> marketing this equipment might have negotiated a reduced EQA cost. This
> brings me to my next question. What are the approaches to QC for gas
> analysers. It is obviously costly to register all analysers in a scheme
> for
> gases and co-ox. Is it sufficient to use IQC comparisons or perhaps
> patient
> samples?
>
> Dr Fiona Ivison
> Dept. of Clinical Chemistry
> Royal Liverpool University Hospital
> Mount Vernon St
> Liverpool
> L7 8XP
>
> 0151 706 4287
>
>
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