World Patient Safety Day 2024 The theme for this year’s World Patient Safety Day’s on 17th September is improving diagnosis for patient safety, where patients and families, health workers, health care leaders, policy makers and civil society will emphasise the pivotal role of correct and timely diagnosis in improving patient
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For Biomedical Science Day, we would like to introduce you to one of our biomedical scientists, Sara Phillips-Jones. A member of the IBMS, Sara is a HCPC registered BMS with 8 years’ experience as a BMS. She has over 12 years’ experience in Laboratory Medicine, and brings a wealth of
The Weqas team had a great time in Dubai this week exhibiting at the IFCC #WorldLab congress. The posters that were presented at the event are available to download below: They include, Performance of Lacate on Blood Gas analysers for Sepsis Management, POCT CRP performance as a tool to support
For Mental Health Awareness Week, we thought it was a great opportunity to introduce you to one of our Wellbeing Champions, Natalie Tooze. With two years of experience in wellbeing, Natalie and her wellbeing colleagues have taken on some of the Cardiff and Vale University Health Boards Wellbeing teams’ advice
Weqas Annual Conference Thank you to our participants, sponsors, and speakers who joined us for our Weqas Annual Conference this year in Cardiff. We were back at the Hilton Hotel in Cardiff and had two days of excellent internal and external speakers on Point of care testing and the future
We are delighted to announce our updated event programme for our annual conference, which will be held on Tuesday 12th December and Wednesday 13th December 2023 at the Hilton Hotel, Cardiff. The conference this year will focus on Point of care testing and the future of diagnostics. With a blend of
This month marks 1 year since we launched the Weqas Connect website to our participants with the release of the ED Toxicology distribution – SP0622. Over the last 12 months we have successfully migrated a number of programmes from the Weqas Interactive and CueSee websites, resulting in over 900 participants
Along with hospitals and laboratories across the country, on 8th June, we will be celebrating Biomedical Science Day 2023. This event is all about raising awareness of the work of Biomedical Science. Our Training and Quality Control Coordinator, Suzanne Hughes, organised a week of activities including a Biomedical themed Bake
For BMS day this week, we thought it was a great opportunity to introduce you to Suzanne Hughes our new Training and Quality Control Coordinator. With 10 years of experience and memberships in HCPC and IBMS, Suzanne is bringing a wealth of experience to her new role in the Weqas
We want to support the International Day of the Midwife, which celebrates and honours the achievements of midwives and their associations on the 5th May, every year. In our ‘Development of an External Quality Assessment (EQA) Programme for Pre-Eclampsia Markers’ project, to enhance patient safety, we emphasise the importance of
