Stockport NHS Foundation Trust, is the first site in the UK to meet the new Clinical Pathology Accreditation standards for point of care diagnostic testing. The Trust has achieved CPA accreditation for blood gas, blood glucose, Iinternational normalised ratio and total haemoglobin testing at the point of care. POCT Co-ordinator at Stepping Hill Hospital, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust, Samantha Ekin, puts cobas IT 1000 at the heart of POCT. She comments, “cobas IT 1000 has been vital in moving towards CPA accreditation for POCT,” Samantha continues. “It provides access to important information regarding reagents, activation dates for connected instruments and all quality control data. It also has an operator database, which includes dates of certification/re-certification and a record of how often an operator has used an instrument, as well as recording all the patient results.”
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