United Kingdom National External Quality Assessment Service
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Poor Performance Criteria

Criteria for identifying Poor Performance and Persistent Poor Performance

The central purpose of external quality assurance is to ensure that laboratories are delivering a service of the highest possible quality. The Molecular Genetics Scheme maintains the principle of assessment by professional consensus and attempts to improve standards by education and peer group review rather than by censure or penalty. Performance criteria are necessary to allow an individual laboratory's performance to be measured against national standards and to identify any laboratory, which is failing to meet these criteria. Participants who fall below the standards detailed in the following documents are deemed to be performing poorly.




Last updated: 29th March 2010, Sandi Deans

Review History: Nov 2009 SD / Oct 2007 SD / Nov 2006 SD / Feb 2006 SD