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 addition to the
considerations of safety and ethics in the laboratory.
Medical
laboratory accreditation requires conformance to the international standard EN ISO 15189 which defines particular requirements for the quality and competence of
medical laboratories. Accredited medical examinations assure that clinical
laboratories focus on maintaining patients’ healthcare, directly connected with
improved patient safety, risk mitigation and operational efficiency.
Medical laboratories accredited to EN ISO 15189 (a
sector-specific technical competence and management system standard) are
recognized as meeting the management system principles of ISO 9001:2008 and
ISO9001:2015.
Information
Documents
Applying
for accreditation
Application forms for the accreditation of your
laboratory may be found in the downloads section.