Annual Meetings

Tuesday 7 October:  UK NEQAS Haematology 26th Annual Participants’ meeting, 09.00 at The Point, Emirates Old Trafford Cricket Ground

Monday 6 October:  Delegate dinner for UK NEQAS Haematology 26th Annual Participants’ meeting, 19.00 at Emirates Old Trafford Cricket Club

POSTER SESSION: If you would like to submit an abstract for the October annual meeting, please download and complete the form here.

Tuesday 26 November: Joint UK NEQAS BTLP and BBTS Blood Bank Technology SIG Annual Meeting, 09.00 at BCEC, Birmingham

Monday 25 November:  Delegate Dinner for Joint UK NEQAS BTLP and BBTS Blood Bank Technology SIG Annual Meeting, 19.30 at BCEC, Birmingham

UK NEQAS BTLP no longer sending paper instructions

Due to environmental concerns, UK NEQAS BTLP will stop sending paper instructions as standard with samples as of 28/04/25. 

We will continue to send exercise instructions if there is an unusual exercise, and we will always send the COSHH information. 

A link to the exercise instructions can be found on the data entry page, and will be on our website by navigating to the link below and replacing  xxxxxx with the exercise code (e.g. 25E4).

https://www.ukneqash.org/downloads/xxxxxxInstructions.pdf

Delay to the 2501PX Point of Care Hemoscreen Distribution

Due to a delay in UK customs clearance impacting the supply of PX material, 2501PX will now be distributed on Tuesday, 11th February 2025. As a result of this delay, the closing date has been extended to the 25th February. Updated instruction sheets included with your samples, will provide further details regarding this change.

UK NEQAS Schedules for 2025/26

PDF copies of exercise schedules have been uploaded and can be accessed in our documents section. You can also use our online schedules list by clicking here.

The online schedules page allows you to view all the exercises along with the opening, closing and reporting dates. You will also be able to filter down and view schedules for individual schemes. Further to this you can view an individualised schedule for your own PRN from that same page as long as you are logged in. To do this click the Login button, login with your PRN, Identity and Password and click the Distribution schedules option from the drop down menu with your initials.

All schedules allow you to export them as PDFs or Excel sheets so you can download and / or print them.

UK NEQAS IVDR UPDATE

The European Union In Vitro Diagnostics Regulation [Regulation (EU) 2017/746 (EU IVDR)] was implemented on the 26th of May 2022.  A statement of the application of the IVDR to external quality assessment (EQA) services can be found here.