Dear Ann Marie,

You said initially you did not have good compliance but now you do.  Was there anything in particular you did to improve compliance?  Do you look after any community units and if so are they compliant also?

Kind regards,

Mary

 

Mary Duddy
Point of Care Testing Manager,

Chemical Pathology

West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust.

Watford General Hospital, Vicarage Road,

Watford. Hertfordshire. WD18 0HB

EXT  Watford 7998

 

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Hi all

 

Thanks for all your responses – interesting to see how different we all are.

 

David: this is the first I have heard of how WEQAS view non-returns as we always chase up any that are missing – thanks for the information.  

 

Alex

Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust

 

Hi All,

 

I get my staff to directly input their data into CueSee. Each have their own login etc. Works really well for the most part. If , like me, you are a lone POCTC I would recommend that you go down this route. I couldn’t imagine processing the paper returns every month.

 

The only downside is monitoring compliance. I have only recently managed to develop a way to find non-returners as WEQAS exports aren’t that useful for identifying when a meter has been taken out of action due to failure (I have non connected meters) etc. I have escalated this issue within the Trust using clinical audit group. Very useful if you have one.

 

WEQAS expect us to follow up non returners. I have wards that have never returned a result for a long time and WEQAS have not done anything about it. Which is fair enough as they don’t know whether a ward still exists/ still has meters etc or whether the site is one a month, every other month etc.

 

 

 

Hi Alex,

 

We do that same as Ann Marie at BHR and it seems to be the only way to get clinical engagement and effectively monitor compliance.

We’ve also amended the POCT Policy to clearly define the triggers for non-compliance and escalation to the POCT Committee i.e. <75% annual return rate or 2 consecutive poor performances/ NR’s.

 

Kind regards,

 

Clare Bailey Msc MIBMS | Lead Biomedical Scientist for POCT

Department of Pathology | Cancer and Clinical Support

Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust

 

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Hi Alex

We do incident reports for those areas that don’t test them.

Initially we had lots of incident reports to do but now we have really good compliance.

Thanks

 

 

 

Hi all

 

A further question about EQA: how does everyone deal with wards that don’t bother to test the EQA samples.  There are 2 choices as I see it:

 

1.       Hassle them about it by phoning etc – this is what we currently do

2.       Leave them to have a non-return, in which case how do WEQAS view this if it happens repeatedly for the same area?

 

Thank you,

 

Alex Clubley

POCT Manager

HEYHT

 

 

 

Hiya

 

Can I just ask what everyone does with the Blood Glucose EQA results sheets that the wards return? We have always kept ours in case this is something that CPA/UKAS would look at. It’s just that our storage space is quickly running out and I would really like to throw them away. For those of you that have been through an inspection is this something that is looked at for evidence of who has performed the EQA test?

 

Kind Regards

 

Sharon

 

Sharon Roberts

Point of Care Testing Lead

St Helens & Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

 

 

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