Ver 1.0 of the UK NEQAS for Trace Elements and Guildford Peptide Hormones Quality Policy, ver 10.0 of the Trace Elements Participant’s Manual and ver 2.3 of the Peptide Hormones Participant’s Manual are now available for download from the Scheme Documents page of this website.

Ver 1.5 of the scheme Quality Policy and ver 9.5 of the Participant’s Manual are now available for download from the Scheme Documents page of this website.

We are pleased to confirm that the scheme successfully maintained accreditation on 6th June 2018. A copy of the confirmation can be found on the scheme documents page.

It is my great pleasure to confirm the continued accreditation of the UK NEQAS for Trace Elements EQA scheme to ISO 17043.

We would like to announce that the updated Participant’s Manual and Quality Policy are now available from the Scheme Documents page.

We would like to inform participants that an updated copy of our Participants Manual is now available via the UK NEQAS for Trace Elements’ “Scheme Documents” page.

We hope you find the document helpful and informative. If you have any questions regarding the document, please do not hesitate to email me.

Thanks,

Jon

We are pleased to announce that the UK NEQAS for Trace Elements Scheme is now accredited to ISO 17043:2010 for the following matrices: Blood, urine, and serum. The ISO certificate along with several documents helpful to participants are available on the Scheme Documents page.

Version 7 of the TEQAS Participant’s Manual has now been published, the document can be downloaded from the TEQAS Scheme Documents page.

TEQAS’s Sarah- Jane Bainbridge and Chris Harrington have recently published an article in CLI regarding the TEQAS scheme and EQA. It is available to view via our documents page.

Representatives from TEQAS and Guildford peptides have today attended the UK NEQAS conference in Birmingham. The talks aim to ensure consistency between the UK NEQAS schemes and to provide them with the appropriate support and information so as to encourage the continued development of all External Quality Assurance programs.