While Cytopathology was not specifically outlined in the project agreement with the DoHA, the RCPA QAP felt it would be worthwhile to reconvene a committee and re‐examine this area.
The first Key Performance Indicators project established in 2004 investigated the use of KPIs to identify poorly performing laboratories. At that time, the gynaecological data and non gynaecological data was used in the KPI calculation and the Performance Measures data was not used. The conclusion from this project was that the KPI was not a valid tool to identify poorly performing laboratories. However, it was thought a large number of major errors in a QAP may be a trigger for a review of some variety.
The GYN conventional slide survey has four surveys per year with 5 slides in each survey. The Performance Measures are submitted to the QAP in 2 parts, one year retrospectively.
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