This course is suitable for any laboratory scientist performing PNH testing by flow Cytometry, irrespective of the platforms used and will be delivered over 2 days by international experts in the field. All courses will feature talks and classroom practical sessions that will ensure that students receive the best tuition in the flow cytometric detection of PNH.

Registration is via on-line form on our website at www.sheffield.ac.uk/nacfc
Registration for the course costs £200 and includes refreshments and lunch each day of the course.

UK NEQAS for Leucocyte Immunophenotyping (UK NEQAS LI) based inthe Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, the University of Sheffield and
Alexion (UK) are proud to announce the latest PNH course run by the National Academy of Clinical Flow Cytometry.

This course will build on the success of previous courses, all of which were very well attended and received unanimously positive feedback.

For more information about this course and how to register, please download the poster below.

If you are a participant in our Low Level Leucocyte programme, you may also be interested in the complementary Blood Component Monitoring EQA scheme, assessing red cell (RBC) and platelet (PLT) parameters, run by UK NEQAS Haematology.

For more information, please see below.

UK Neqas is pleased to announce a one-day meeting 'UK Neqas Coordinating Point of Care testing' at the prestigious Queen Elizabeth II Centre in Westminster, London on Friday 20th October 2017, with exhibitions from companies representing the POCT diagnostics industry.

A registration form and programme will be shortly available to view and download from the UK NEQAS website (www.ukneqas.org.uk); if you would like to register your interest please email office@ukneqas.org.uk and we will send the programme and registration form directly to you when available.

As a result of an internal review, we have taken the decision to adjust the performance monitoring limits for quantitative programmes.

These will be rolled out on an ongoing basis until all such quantitative programmes are amended.

Listed below are the current quantitative programmes where the changes have been made.  This will be updated as and when changes to any programmes are made and show the trial and date when the changes came into effect.

The changes to the performance limits detailed below will be applicable to all quantitative programmes appearing in the above list unless otherwise specified.

• A result between 2.5 and -2.5 will now be classed as satisfactory

• A result between >2.5 and 3.5 or <-2.5 and -3.5 will be classed as an 'Action’ result. An ‘Action’ category highlights a potential issue to the laboratory and indicates that the laboratory should review. Two ‘Action’ results in a period of 3 samples would result in classification as a ‘Critical’

• A result above 3.5 or below -3.5 is considered to be a ‘critical’ result requiring immediate investigation by the laboratory

Please note that if you are a UK-based laboratory the relevant National Quality Assurance Advisory Panel will be automatically notified when a Critical level of performance is assigned. Non-UK laboratories are not notified to UK NQAAP’s.

Our Re-Registration window is now open for 2017/18. Please click here and log in to your account to re-register.

For more information, please email admin@ukneqasli.co.uk.

Please find below the flyer for our New Programmes for 2017/2018.

If you would like any more information, or would like to register for any of our programmes, please contact admin@ukneqasli.co.uk.

Thank you.

Programmes List for 2017/2018

Please find below the flyer for all of our available programmes for 2017/2018.

If you would like any more information, or would like to register for any of our programmes, please contact admin@ukneqasli.co.uk.

Thank you.

UK NEQAS for Leucocyte Immunophenotyping (UK NEQAS LI) now has a Facebook page and a Twitter account. We will be posting important messages to these accounts relating to our schemes so please like or follow us, respectively.

We hope that these feeds will act as a useful eductational resource for participants and collaborators alike, collating interesting papers, conference info, videos and news stories in haemato-oncology. As we develop our online presence we hope to publish some of our own educational content. If you have any feedback or ideas as to content you would like us to include, please do not hesitate to get in touch.