New CPA standard introduced in April 08 B9.3 "Competency to perform assigned tasks shall be assessed following training and periodically thereafter. Retraining and reassessment shall occur when necessary. Records of competency assessments shall be kept". I'm still struggling with setting...

I've started to populate the suppliers module but I have a real issue with "Account Manager" which is a drop down list of people (which is naturally my own staff database). Why should I have to record firms' account managers in my database to allow this selection? This would appear...

For pathology laboratories, maintaining and improving quality is vital in making sure that their services are fit for purpose and that users can access their services at the point of need. In managing their quality management systems (QMS), the South African National Health Laboratory Services (NHLS...

One thing it would be great to be able to do with q pulse is keep a track of their pay spine number and their approaching increment dates and gateways. Can this be considered for the future. KSF is a big thing for us in the NHS and q pulse seems a very logical wayb of managing competence / performance...

Hi Martin Thank you for your reply I am thinking of this from Two directions 1 - Staff members need to have records of their accidents in and around the lab i.e. needle stick injuries, cuts, trips breaks. also we need to log accidents that are major as IR1s as well - we do this as CA/PAs at the moment...

Basically 1 – add KSF indicator as a competence 2 – add each KSF indicator as a training event – I have created a new sub directory for KSF indicators 3 – add KSF competences to job role / add indicators as individual training events. 4 – apply job role to staff member Let me know if I can be of more...

We are still in the process of using Q pulse with our KSF performance review stuff. I have loaded all the KSF standardsin and am still in the procvess of loading the KSF indicators. The boxes available are only 200 characters long and don't allow you tto get all the text in. Can this be updated....

Hello We have COSHH sheets and MDS and package inserts stored in a folder called external documents which I am slowly populating, I am running these in addition to the SOPs and linking them in. WE are hoping to get the risk management module to help with this soon, but we have not had much info about...

In a major advance patients and their families across Europe can now check out on-line the credentials of laboratories offering genetic tests. Over the last two years, EuroGentest, an EU-funded project, has collated in-dept data on the majority of the 1500 + laboratories involved in Member and associated...

Operator error in liquid handling can be minimised with effective training. Handling liquid is one of the most common processes in life science laboratories, whether they’re drug-discovery and compound-management laboratories or analytical chemistry, genomics, or proteomics facilities. Processes...