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.
Draft criteria for identifying Poor Performance for Molecular Pathology EQAs
The criteria for identifying poor performance and persistent poor performance in Molecular Pathology EQA schemes have been approved by the UK NEQAS Molecular Pathology Specialist Advisory Group, UK NEQAS for Molecular Genetics Steering Committee and UK NEQAS for Cellular Pathology Techniques Steering Commitee. The criteria will be submitted to the UK National Quality Assurance Advisory Panel for ratification in March 2012. The criteria will be applied to the 2012-13 full EQA schemes. The draft document is available to download below.
Last updated: 25th January 2012, Sandi Deans
Review History: April 2011 SD / Nov 2010 SD / Mar 2010 SD / Nov 2009 SD / Oct 2007 SD / Nov 2006 SD / Feb 2006 SD
