Since September 2008, OLA requirements have included six separate requirements for internal auditing (prior to this, they were Good Practice Recommendations). As a backgrounder, read the QMP–LS News article Internal Auditing – Raising the Bar Beyond Self-Assessment and the Eye on OLA: Internal Auditing: the Ten Steps, in the March 2008, Issue 124 . The chart below shows the number of times each of the six requirements have been cited from 2008–2011.
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In an effort to green and lean practices, OLA will reduce the number of letters it sends via regular mail.
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Once again the OLA division would like to invite all laboratory professionals to comment on how well we have met our program values based on your most recent assessment.
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QMP–LS is seeking volunteers from Ontario laboratories to sit on its External Quality Assessment (EQA) scientific committees, effective April 2012. Membership on committees consists of a three-year term of office, renewable once. Committees meet an average of four times a year for half-day or full-day meetings.
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To ensure ongoing quality monitoring of the epidemiological laboratory data generated from the prenatal screening program, the Quality Management
Program –Laboratory Services (QMP-LS) and the Better Outcomes Registry and Network (BORN) are pleased to make you aware of a minor administrative
adjustment to the quality oversight and monitoring of the program data.
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Congratulations to QMP–LS Research Fellow, Berna Aslan for winning the National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry’s Distinguished Abstract Awards for her abstract entitled “Use of Biological Variation for Establishing and Harmonizing Performance Limits for Clinical Chemistry PT Schemes.”
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Maintain your 2012 OLA Assessor Certification by attending a face-to-face refresher one-day workshop!
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It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Jackie Barten on Sunday, January 29, 2012. Jackie has been involved with QMP-LS for more than fifteen years.
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