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....

Thanks for the post Path_Links, this appears to be a Pathology (or Laboratory) specific use of Q-Pulse. Hopefully some other community users in the Pathology or Laboratory Accreditation field can provide some feedback.

We are just starting out populating QPulse with SOPs, with a lot having associated Risk or COSHH assessments. One method we have found to store these types of documents is to upload them with the SOP so that the one record contains both (or all three) documents. Is anyone achieving this link between...