The Weqas Team are looking forward to attending EQALM 2024 in Vienna, this event always delivers three days of insightful EQA presentations and discussions. One of the presentations this year will be delivered by Weqas Director, Annette Thomas, which will be on ‘Analytical performance specifications – are we providing clinically appropriate EQA?’.

Meet the team that will be attending EQALM this year:

Annette Thomas

Director

Annette Thomas is a Consultant Clinical Biochemist at Cardiff and Vale University Health Board with over 40 years’ experience in Laboratory Medicine, over 20 years of which has been as Director of Weqas. She is also the National Point of Care Clinical Lead for Wales, and an internationally recognised expert in EQA and POCT.

Gareth Davies

Deputy Director

Gareth Davies is the Deputy Director, Principal Biochemist and Research and Development Manager at Weqas with over 15 years experience in Laboratory Medicine. Gareth is responsible for new programme development and provides EQA interpretation, support and troubleshooting. He is a member of the National Clinical Biochemistry Audit Group and All Wales Clinical Biochemistry Audit Group, and a member of the ACB Pre-Analytical Phase Special Interest Group (ACB PA SIG).

Samantha Jones

Operations Manager

Samantha is the Operations Manager at Weqas with over 25 years experience in Laboratory Medicine. Sam worked as a Biomedical Scientist at the Medical Biochemistry and Immunology Department at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff before moving to Weqas in 1998. Since 2010 she has been employed as the Operations Manager responsible for the day to day management of EQA / IQC services.

Posters

Weqas will be presenting three posters at this event, which you can download below.

A Review of Lactate Performance on the Weqas Blood Gas External Quality Assessment (EQA) Programme A comparison of POCT and Lab Instruments and their suitability for use in Sepsis Management

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Use of Point of Care (POCT) C-Reactive Protein (CRP) to support antibiotic prescribing in primary care – Are they good enough? A Review of Performance on the Weqas POCT CRP Programme

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A Review of Performance on the Weqas Quantitative Faecal Haemoglobin (FIT) EQA Programme – Are current analysers ‘FIT’ for purpose? A Review of Performance on the Weqas Quantitative Faecal Haemoglobin (FIT) EQA Programme – Are current analysers ‘FIT’ for purpose?

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