Quality of service
Being a large, complex and specialist service Southampton Pathology services pride themselves on compliance and in many cases exceeding scientific and clinical standards.
There are a number of organisations for which our laboratories must achieve and maintain standards both in the way our services are run and the technical quality assurance of the test results.
SUHT pathology laboratory services are assessed by Clinical Pathology Accreditation UK| where the accreditation status of our and other UK laboratory services can be viewed.
Accredited laboratories
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Department
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Registration number
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Chemical Pathology
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1004
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Haematology and Blood Transfusion
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1003
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HPA Microbiology and Virology
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1005
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Immunology
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1006
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Cellular pathology
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2324
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UK NEQAS United Kingdom National External Quality Assessment Service| gives objective information and advice to clinical laboratories throughout laboratory medicine on the quality of their analytical and interpretative performance, in order to help them provide accurate and reliable test results and advice to clinicians, which facilitates optimal patient care.
SUHT laboratories also participate in clinical governance and clinical audit reporting as well as national statistics for laboratory benchmarking including cost efficiency analysis.