As Point of Care diagnostic testing increases in healthcare facilities, the training of users to ensure that they are competent in using POCT equipment is becoming an ever growing challenge. This has been recognised in the Clinical Pathology Accreditation standards for POC testing, which calls for POC testing facilities to demonstrate adequate training and recertification of operators. York Hospital has adopted the cobas academy e-learning tool from Roche to help meet these requirements. York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has 85 Accu-Chek Inform II blood glucose meters and six cobas b221 blood gas analysers installed across the Trust. These instruments are linked to the cobas IT 1000 POC data management solution, allowing them to be monitored and managed centrally.
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