If you have laboratory facilities in your practice, External QC is mandatory according to the RCVS Practice Standards Manual...

Quoting from the RCVS Practice Standards Manual “In addition to internal procedures, quality assurance to external laboratories or samples must be routinely undertaken and results documented.”

Participation in our external QC scheme has the following benefits:

Simple Internet based scheme for chemistry and Heamatology.
All common analysers included.
Reports with statistical analysis and graphs of current and past results.
Comparison of your results with users
of the same analyser.
Comparison of your results with other analysers.
Allows informed decisions when replacing current analysers.
THE STANDARD REPORT
Shows the deviation as a percentage from
the mean and compares your results with those of other participants in the scheme.

This information is available in tables and as a colour coded histogram.

LEVEY JENNINGS PLOT
This is a Cumulative plot of results over time the y-axis is the percentage deviation from the mean, the x-axis is the sample date. The user determine the time period for each individual L.J. graph.