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Dr John Parker-Williams

In Memory of Dr John Parker-Williams

UK NEQAS Haematology wishes to acknowledge the passing of Dr John Parker-Williams. John (affectionately known as JPW by many friends and colleagues) was a former Scheme Director and later a valued member of the Morphology Scientific Advisory Group. He was a major contributor and steadfast supporter of UK NEQAS Haematology for many years.

John was deeply dedicated to the field of haematology and passionate about quality assurance. UK NEQAS Haematology would not be where it is today without his commitment and influence.

To honour John’s memory, donations and messages of condolence can be shared through the Royal Trinity Hospice tribute page:

https://www.royaltrinityhospice.london/InMemoryOf/johnparkerwilliams

BTLP re-registration email error

It has come to our attention that while preparing for the 26/27 re-registration process, an email was sent in error on 11/12/25. The re-registration process for BTLP will open on w/c 26/02/2026 and we will send a fresh email when it opens, please ignore the email sent on 11/12/25.

Please accept our apologies for this error, we are working to prevent this error occurring again.

Pause in QAPC and NQAAP activity from January 2026

UK NEQAS Haematology and Transfusion regrets the pause in activity of the QAPC and NQAAP oversight of laboratory performance from January 1st, 2026, as notified by the RCPath, IBMS and LabMed.  UK NEQAS supports the need for an independent system of review of both laboratory and method-related performance within the UK.

We will continue to manage performance concerns internally after January 1st 2026.  In the case of persistent unsatisfactory or poor performance of either testing sites or methods, we will work with the support of the Steering Committee, other UK NEQAS centres, commercial companies and/or the MHRA, as required, to resolve the concern in the interest of patient safety.

To read a message from the President of UK NEQAS, click here.

To read the full statement from the RCPath click here. 

UK NEQAS BTLP no longer sending paper instructions

Due to environmental concerns, UK NEQAS BTLP will stop sending paper instructions as standard with samples as of 28/04/25. 

We will continue to send exercise instructions if there is an unusual exercise, and we will always send the COSHH information. 

A link to the exercise instructions can be found on the data entry page, and will be on our website by navigating to the link below and replacing  xxxxxx with the exercise code (e.g. 25E4).

https://www.ukneqash.org/downloads/xxxxxxInstructions.pdf

UK NEQAS Schedules for 2025/26

PDF copies of exercise schedules have been uploaded and can be accessed in our documents section. You can also use our online schedules list by clicking here.

The online schedules page allows you to view all the exercises along with the opening, closing and reporting dates. You will also be able to filter down and view schedules for individual schemes. Further to this you can view an individualised schedule for your own PRN from that same page as long as you are logged in. To do this click the Login button, login with your PRN, Identity and Password and click the Distribution schedules option from the drop down menu with your initials.

All schedules allow you to export them as PDFs or Excel sheets so you can download and / or print them.

UK NEQAS IVDR UPDATE

The European Union In Vitro Diagnostics Regulation [Regulation (EU) 2017/746 (EU IVDR)] was implemented on the 26th of May 2022.  A statement of the application of the IVDR to external quality assessment (EQA) services can be found here.