UK NEQAS for Leucocyte Immunophenotyping is proud to be affiliated with UK NEQAS.

UK NEQAS is a network of EQA centres offering more than 400 EQA programmes, all overseen by the UK NEQAS educational charity. As a world leader in EQA, providing optimum EQA services since 1969, we deliver an unparalleled, multidisciplinary range of services by a team that really understands the clinical relevance of EQA and how it supports diagnostic testing for the benefit of patients. All UK NEQAS centres are accredited to ISO17043 and are resolutely impartial and independent.

What this means for you

Being part of UK NEQAS means that you have access to the support of hundreds of expert clinical and scientific advisors, wanting to share best practice. This leads to unrivalled opportunities for collaboration within and across disciplines, at home and internationally.

Education is placed at the heart of EQA, which empowers you to work smarter. We share our knowledge in partnership, supporting performance improvements through regular quality assessments that challenge testers at critical decision-making performance limits. And with experts at the end of the phone ready to help, you can access the right individual support, as and when it is needed.

UK NEQAS supports users to provide the best results for their assays. Our expert knowledge of new technologies allows for the early implementation of EQAs for ground breaking testing, and we collaborate with manufacturers and regulatory agencies to ensure the effective resolution of problems with assays, analysers and kits.

UK NEQAS team members are recognised experts in their fields. Our staff are experienced healthcare scientists, with extensive laboratory and educational expertise and relevant, in-depth knowledge of their subjects, to support laboratories, clinicians, and the public.

Working with us, as part of UK NEQAS, you enjoy the unprecedented benefits from a global EQA leader, a unique, education-focused approach, and proven expertise. You know that you are being compared to the best, by the best. 

UK NEQAS for Leucocyte Immunophenotyping is an international External Quality Assessment (EQA)/Proficiency Testing (PT) provider hosted by, and is legally accountable to, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. We currently provide EQA/PT services for molecular haemato-oncology and flow cytometry for haematological/immunological assays.

UK NEQAS LI was established as a regional programme in 1986. At that time a total of 20 UK laboratories participated in the single programme available at that time.

Currently, there are over 2700 active registrations worldwide within the 29 programmes now operated by the centre. 

The programme is hosted by Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and has dedicated laboratory facilities at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital.

Programmes operated by UK NEQAS LI are overseen in 2 ways:

1. By a dedicated Steering Committee covering all programmes.

2. By a Specialist Advisory Group (SAG) with focus on the molecular programmes.

This oversight ensures that the programmes operated by this center are clinically relevant, fit for purpose and are developed in parallel to current clinical practice.

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