Dear Colleagues, Our next event is a entitled: "*Managing the Quality of Suppliers"* to be held on *Tuesday* *19th November 2013* at *Birmingham Research Park, B15 3NY *. This event is primarily designed for *Quality Managers* and *Quality Leads*creating policies and procedures for complying with the requirements of *ISO 15189:2012*, but others in laboratory medicine and the diagnostic industry might find it useful. The meeting is CPD approved by the RCPath and IBMS (ref: MD11SN13) for five hours study. Programme topics and confirmed speakers are given below.******** - *Buying with confidence: the purpose and application of ISO 15189:2012 - Mark Smith, AQMLM* - *Assessing selection of suppliers under ISO 15189 - Ben Courtney, UKAS* - *How a diagnostic organisation's ISO Standards meets and supports pathology's ISO Standards - Roger Browne, Abbott Diagnostics * - *Traceability & Uncertainty - some key concepts - Jonathan Middle, AQMLM * - *The Quality of In-house Assays* *- Dominic Harrington, Guys & St Thomas's * - *The role of EQA as a supplier & in post-market surveillance - David Bullock, UK NEQAS* Please go *here <http://www.aqmlm.org.uk/forthcoming>* for further details of how to register for this event. Thank you! Jonathan Middle (Chair AQMLM) -- AQMLM <http://www.aqmlm.org.uk> | STEMNET <http://www.stemnet.org.uk/> ------ACB discussion List Information-------- This is an open discussion list for the academic and clinical community working in clinical biochemistry. Please note, archived messages are public and can be viewed via the internet. Views expressed are those of the individual and they are responsible for all message content. ACB Web Site http://www.acb.org.uk Green Laboratories Work http://www.laboratorymedicine.nhs.uk List Archives http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/ACB-CLIN-CHEM-GEN.html List Instructions (How to leave etc.) http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/