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GenQA is proud to provide accredited proficiency testing to the genomics community.

GenQA has been accredited by UKAS to ISO 17043 since 24^th October 2018. GenQA operates under the legal entity of OUH NHS Foundation Trust and is provided from two sites (Edinburgh and Oxford).

5th June 2024: GenQA are delighted to announce the maintenance of our accreditation to ISO 17043, following the assessment visit in February 2024.

The scope of our accreditation can be found HERE (updated April 2023) and our Certificate of Accreditation.

History

On 1^st January 2018, CEQAS (Cytogenomic External Quality Assessment Service) and UK NEQAS for Molecular Genetics merged to become GenQA. Both UK NEQAS for Cytogenetics/CEQAS and UK NEQAS for Molecular Genetics were members of UK NEQAS and accredited (since 2008 and 2001 respectively). UK NEQAS for Cytogenetics/CEQAS and UK NEQAS for Molecular Genetics have provided EQA since 1982 and 1991. This merger continues to protect our long history of expertise in the field, but now under one organisation - providing a seamless quality assurance service for genomics.

Participants can access their pre-2018 EQA data at https://genqa.org/pre-2018.