Covid Home Test

ISO 15189 UKAS medical laboratory approval

Client Challenge

Covid Home Test lets clients get tested and receive results without ever leaving home, using a combination of courier and laboratory services.
With 21 outstanding actions and only seven days before the UKAS deadline, their Chief Medical Officer needed a sounding board who could turn responses around overnight, evenings and weekends included.
ISO 15189 UKAS Stage 3 medical laboratory approval

You really have been brilliant, and worked way beyond what I would have imagined any other consultant would have done.

Key challenges included:

21 outstanding UKAS actions with no time to spare

Seven calendar days to the final deadline

No internal resource free to manage the response

Peer review needed on every proposed action

Full accreditation riding on the final push

Outcomes achieved

Full UKAS accreditation granted within the seven days

All 21 actions cleared against the deadline

ISO 15189 accreditation achieved for PCR and lateral flow

Fast-track corrective action process created from scratch

Our flexibility and responsiveness tested in extremis!

Gosh, you shouldn’t have…

Kind words from our clients

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