The nice people at the United Kingdom
Accreditation Service sent their update today. You can read it by
clicking here. It makes for interesting reading. There’s no denying that I’m
not the UKAS’s greatest fan, but to be fair to them they are trying to achieve the
impossible. They seem to be trying to have one set of standards written in what
I can only describe as “management catchphrases” which are then
translated into practical applications in all sorts of workplaces by all sorts
of assessors.
Perhaps it is time to admit that this
isn’t working and going back to having something directly applicable to blood
testing just like the old Clinical Pathology Accreditation used to be. And while
we’re at it, let’s stop re-inventing the wheel at every turn and having the
people who make each bit of apparatus produce one standard operating procedure
for that bit of kit which is applicable worldwide.
Is that really so unreasonable?
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