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Weqas 2024 – A Year In Review

We have had a fantastic year in 2024. A few of the highlights include attending medical exhibitions around the world, including trips to Italy, United Arab Emirates, USA, Austria, Germany and South Africa. Events Attended Weqas Annual Conference This years annual conference was a great success, taking place at the

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Annual Conference 2024: Registration Now Open

Registration for this years conference is now open, click the link below to book your place. You can also use this form to claim your Pre-registered places paid for during re-enrolment. Register Now   This year’s conference will take place at the Hilton Manchester Deansgate on Monday 9th and Tuesday

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Biomedical Science Day 2024

On the 6th June, hospitals and laboratories across the country celebrated Biomedical Science Day 2024. The event is focused on raising awareness of the work of Biomedical Scientists.   Our Training and Quality Control Coordinator, Suzanne Hughes, organised a week of activities, including a Biomedical-themed Bake Off, a Weqas Wheel

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World Patient Safety Day 2024

World Patient Safety Day 2024 The theme for this year’s World Patient Safety Day’s on 17th September is improving diagnosis for patient safety, where patients and families, health workers, health care leaders, policy makers and civil society will emphasise the pivotal role of correct and timely diagnosis in improving patient

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Meet the team – Sara Phillips-Jones

For Biomedical Science Day, we would like to introduce you to one of our biomedical scientists, Sara Phillips-Jones. A member of the IBMS, Sara is a HCPC registered BMS with 8 years’ experience as a BMS. She has over 12 years’ experience in Laboratory Medicine, and brings a wealth of

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WorldLab 2024

The Weqas team had a great time in Dubai this week exhibiting at the IFCC #WorldLab congress. The posters that were presented at the event are available to download below: They include, Performance of Lacate on Blood Gas analysers for Sepsis Management, POCT CRP performance as a tool to support

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Meet our Wellbeing Champion, Natalie Tooze

For Mental Health Awareness Week, we thought it was a great opportunity to introduce you to one of our Wellbeing Champions, Natalie Tooze. With two years of experience in wellbeing, Natalie and her wellbeing colleagues have taken on some of the Cardiff and Vale University Health Boards Wellbeing teams’ advice

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Weqas Annual Conference 2023

Weqas Annual Conference Thank you to our participants, sponsors, and speakers who joined us for our Weqas Annual Conference this year in Cardiff. We were back at the Hilton Hotel in Cardiff and had two days of excellent internal and external speakers on Point of care testing and the future

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Weqas Annual Conference 2023 – Updated programme now available; register before 20th November 2023

We are delighted to announce our updated event programme for our annual conference, which will be held on Tuesday 12th December and Wednesday 13th December 2023 at the Hilton Hotel, Cardiff. The conference this year will focus on Point of care testing and the future of diagnostics. With a blend of

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Weqas Connect – 1 Year on

This month marks 1 year since we launched the Weqas Connect website to our participants with the release of the ED Toxicology distribution – SP0622. Over the last 12 months we have successfully migrated a number of programmes from the Weqas Interactive and CueSee websites, resulting in over 900 participants

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