NHS Fife improves competence and confidence with Ideagen Academy
NHS Fife improves competence and confidence with Ideagen Academy
2 PagesCASE STUDY At Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy, Scotland, the Medical Microbiology and Infection Control department uses Ideagen’s Q-Pulse to support its accreditation to ISO 15189, which assures quality and competence in medical laboratories. As Quality and Training Manager, Dr Mairiead MacLennan is required to ensure that all staff have the appropriate training to meet the needs of the department as well as to perform their job: “The main part of my role in respect of quality is to support and maintain accreditation in medical microbiology. We have 4 disciplines in 2 laboratories, all of which use Q-Pulse as their eQMS.” The laboratory has a rotation system in which staff move from bench to bench and perform different techniques. And in a department of 40 staff, all of whom are at
