The Pathology Department at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead has embraced the NHS vision to increase efficiency and reduce waste through the application of LEAN principles. Gateshead is a high throughput blood science laboratory for which increased efficiency will bring huge benefits. After carefully considering many possible configurations for a serum work area (SWA) platform, from several suppliers, the department decided to partner with Roche, who offered the best automated solution for the size of their laboratory. With Modular pre-analytics located close to the sample reception
area, the laboratory now has three analytical processing lines consisting of two cobas 6000 platforms and one high throughput cobas 8000 platform. These are all linked to a highly efficient track system with a post-analytical
module for automated sample storage and retrieval.
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