Weqas Annual Conference 2024

April 8, 2025 By Adam Marsh

Thank you to our participants, sponsors, and speakers who joined us for our Weqas Annual Conference in December last year. We were delighted to bring our conference back to the north west of England in the fantastic Hilton Manchester Deansgate. We always look forward to engaging with our EQA participants, IVD manufacturers, and speakers. As always, it was great to see participants taking the opportunity to network with Weqas staff, speakers, sponsors, and peers from across the country.

As we announced during the conference, 2025 will see us host two separate conference events; a 1 Day Laboratory Conference in June, and a 2 Day POCT Conference in December. If there is anything else you want to see as part of our education and training events, or if you want us to include a particular theme or topic this year, please email us at contact@weqas.com.

Feedback received:

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"We have thoroughly enjoyed the conference and all the material covered during the two days."

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"The talks presented by different members were very useful and interesting."

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"Interesting topics, demonstrated excellence in their respective fields."

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"The Weqas team have been amazing from start to finish. Incredibly helpful with the registration process as well as during the conference itself."

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"Super informative and helpful. I have made plenty of notes and got contact details from some of the speakers to discuss their work in more detail later."

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"Very good conference with a lot of very interesting talks, so I have plenty of good things to discuss with my colleagues later this week!"

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"It was very well organised and learned a lot from the conference. It was nice meeting people from the same line of work and to be able to share our experiences."

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Day 1

Samantha Jones
Weqas Connect Update
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Samantha Jones & Gareth Davies
Weqas Connect EQA Report Interpretation
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Samantha Jones & Gareth Davies
EQA Laboratory Case Studies
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Annette Thomas
Analytical Performance Specification (APS) – Are they clinically appropriate?
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David Ducroq
Bile acid performance: is it good enough to use global targets?
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Annette Thomas & Gareth Davies
Neonatal bilirubin: guidelines and analytical performance
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Miranda Van Berkel
Standardisation and Performance of bilirubin
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Prof. Pat Twomey
Lies, Damned Lies and Calculations
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Day 2

Samantha Jones
Weqas Connect & POCT EQA Report Interpretation
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Samantha Jones
POCT EQA Case Studies
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Dan Lasserson
POCT in ambulatory care and hospital at home – the key to changing pathways
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Christina Soromani
Intraoperative PTH
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Gareth Davies
Pre-term labour markers – which kits to use?
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Haval Ozgun
Experience of ISO 15189:2022 accreditation for POCT
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Lee Peters
A Career Framework for POCT staff: a Welsh perspective
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Katie Moss
Developing a North West regional service for POCT
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Gareth Davies
Pilot POCT Programmes
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A Review of Performance on the Weqas Quantitative Faecal Haemoglobin (FIT) EQA Programme – Are current analysers ‘FIT’ for purpose?
Does the Performance of Routine Bile Acid Methods Meet the Requirement for Risk Management of Intrahepatic Cholestasis of Pregnancy?
Analytical interferences due to challenging samples – a 12 year overview from the Weqas Serum Chemistry and Indices Programme
What do laboratories need from an External Quality Assessment (EQA) Programme – is it time to redefine the aims of EQA?
Post-analytical EQA – Weqas Interpretive Programmes
Weqas Problem Solving Algorithm – Troubleshooting Performance Issues; A Case Study
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
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
Performance Assessment of Point of Care Testing for Blood Glucose – a 5 Year Review
Accuracy of pO2 – a 20 year overview of blood gas performance