PTH, ACTH and Calcitonin

Edinburgh Peptide Hormones

Quantitative Amino Acids

Clinical Chemistry (Birmingham Quality)

Assessment of analytical bias and its consistency across time

Quantitative Factor VIII Inhibitor

Blood Coagulation

Rapid Diagnostic Tests for Malaria

Haematology

This programme is designed to assess the performance of rapid diagnostic tests for malaria.

Rapid prenatal testing for common aneuploidies

Genomics (GenQA)

Analysis and interpretation of aneuploidy and fetal sexing prenatal samples: fixed cell suspensions for interphase FISH and/or DNA for QF-PCR studies.

Red Cell Genotyping

Blood Transfusion Laboratory Practice

Renal Biopsy Pathology

Cellular Pathology Technique (CPT)

To support proactive identification and correction of issues, and assist in quality improvement for surgical Renal biopsies using routine staining methods.

Renal disorders

Genomics (GenQA)

Molecular testing for haematuria and cystic kidney disease.

Renal tumours (Pilot)

Genomics (GenQA)

Testing for TFE-3 rearrangements in renal cancer.

Respiratory disorders

Genomics (GenQA)

Molecular testing for FLCN-related disorders and PAH.

Reticulocyte Count

Haematology

To monitor the performance of participants in automated and manual reticulocyte counting.

Rh and K Phenotyping

Blood Transfusion Laboratory Practice

RhD typing

Blood Transfusion Laboratory Practice

Rubella IgG serology

Microbiology

To provide EQA for laboratories determining immunity to rubella. (Determining immunity to the rubella virus was one of the recommended ante natal screening tests until April 2016. The success of the vaccination programme has resulted in the disease being incredibly rare in the UK and is now classif...

Sarcoma

Genomics (GenQA)

Testing for the detection of recurrent abnormalities associated with sarcomas in FFPE.