Medical
Laboratory services are essential to patient care
and therefore have to be available to meet the needs of all patients and the clinical personnel
responsible for the care of those patients.
Such services include arrangements for requisition,
patient preparation, patient identification,
collection of samples, transportation, storage,
processing and examination of clinical samples,
together with subsequent validation, interpretation,
reporting and advice, in additions to the
considerations of safety and ethics in the
laboratory.
Medical laboratory
accreditation requires conformance to the
internationally accepted standard MSA ISO 15189
which defines particular requirements for the
quality and competence of medical laboratories.
This standard establishs management and technical
requirements. These standards may be purchased
from
MSA or be viewed in the MSA premises.
Also
it is
worth mentioning that medical laboratories accredited to ISO 15189:2007 (a
sector-specific technical competence and management
system standard) are recognized as meeting the
management system principles of ISO 9001:2008.
This communication can be found
here.
Further
information regards the accreditation of
laboratories can be found at the ILAC
webpage. Of particular interest are the
following information documents:
Why use an accredited laboratory
Why become an accredited lab
How does using an accredited lab benefit
government and regulators
The advantages of being an accredited laboratory
Furthermore, an information
document persuant to ISO 15189 and medical
laboratories may be found
here.
Application forms for the accreditation of your
laboratory may be found in the
downloads section.
