Quality control within laboratories, especially those running clinical trials, is vital to ensure precision and accuracy of the results. Quality control also enables any issues within the processes to be more easily identified and corrected, ensuring reliable and robust data.
This workshop provides an introduction to the different aspects of laboratory quality control, including GCP/GCLP, documentation, laboratory infrastructure, the readiness checklist, auditing and the road to accreditation. This workshop is aimed at laboratory management staff in low and middle income countries.
After attending this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Understand the requirements for laboratory quality control
- Evaluate the infrastructure and utilities in their laboratory
- Identify errors in quality control documentation
- Understand the auditing process
- Plan a route to accreditation
Documents related to this workshop can be found on our resources page here.
The links to the recorded presentations for each of these sessions can be found here:
- Introduction to quality control and GCP/GCLP (presented by Ken Awuondo, KEMRI/Wellcome Trust, Kenya)
- Introduction to quality control documentation (presented by Jean Paul Assam Assam, Laboratory for tuberculosis research and pharmacology, University of Yaoundé 1, Cameroon)
- Quality management – readiness checklist (presented by Fay Swanson, TASK, South Africa)
- Infrastructure and utilities (presented by Moussa Moise Diagne, Institut Pasteur, Senegal)
- Quality management – auditing (presenter TBC)
- Working towards accreditation (presented by Teferi Mekonen, ASLM)
The content of this page was developed by Dr Linzy Elton and Dr Mags Thomason