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UK NEQAS – more than just EQA
“My greatest pleasure is when we dispatch a clinically challenging test and every laboratory delivers the correct answer.” Liam Whitby, President of UK NEQAS explains why there is so much more to UK NEQAS than EQA. “From supporting research by global health organisations, to producing guidelines for UK and European institutions, UK NEQAS is improving the accuracy of global diagnostic testing by putting education at the heart of EQA services. Operating in over 175 countries, we are unashamedly proud of our EQA programmes. So proud that we want to share our expertise and findings widely so that collaboratively, every laboratory, every centre, every clinician, and every scientist can work better for the benefit of patients.” Read the full article from UK NEQAS President Liam Whitby starting on
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