Zen
and the Art of Laboratory
Accreditation (Some
freewheeling random resources…)
~ Dr.Sachin
Kale
Quality
is a Journey not a Destination...!
Why they say so, you realise when you start the work!
And when the inevitable journey begins, one finds that one is not at
all equipped to understand language and terminology that ISO standards
speak.
For laboratories aspiring to go for accreditation in India, NABL website
or NABH website
is the
starting point. From there it goes on to download all NABL documents
relevant to medical laboratories from here.
And NABH documents are here.
The starting point for NABL are two documents, they are the Bible,
Geeta and
Kuran for NABL! And they are ISO 15189, which can be purchased
from Bureau of Indian Standards;
and NABL
112. That is where it
begins (and ends!)
This
presentation by Dr Thuppil
Venkatesh, Lead Assessor & TC
member NABL may help you.
Series
of You-tube videos by David
Burnett (Consultant in quality and accreditation systems), speaking at
the 1st European Symposium on Quality Management in Laboratory
Medicine, may help you.
For
understanding multi-part QC rules a series
of talks by Dr. Bhide is very
simple to understand..
These
You-tube vidoes by
International Experts in Laboratory Quality, discussing the difficult
challenges facing our laboratories, are providing advanced ideas on how
to overcome those challenges.
But in the end it is not about accreditation, as Dr.
Vineeta Sood of Panchkula was saying, quality is a continuous
effort, not a destination, and not a
accreditation too! I think it is your conscious:)