Annual Report 2010 - St. James's Hospital

Clinical Service Directorates I LabMed
• Haematology (including the Coagulation Laboratory of
the National Centre for Hereditary Coagulation Disorders
(NCHCD)
• Histopathology (incorporating Cytopathology)
• Immunology
• The Irish Mycobacteria Reference Laboratory (IMRL)
• Microbiology
• The National MRSA Reference Laboratory (NMRSARL)
Transfusion Medicine, incorporating Haemovigilance, is
accredited to standards ISO 15189 and AML-BB (SI 360 of
2005) from the Irish National Accreditation Board (INAB).
2009. This facility was completed in 2010, and included a
reconfi guration of these services comprising a consolidation
of testing on new analytical platforms with pre-analytical
robotics and centralisation of specimen reception to enhance
the processing of clinical specimens in accordance with Lean
principles and best laboratory practice. This is the fi rst of its
kind in the academic teaching hospitals in Ireland and it is
designed to enable the laboratory to deal with an expanding
workload more easily. This is particularly important as the
laboratory positions itself to meet the challenges in the
external environment, particularly in regard to HSE’S plans for
modernisation of Laboratory Medicine Services in the State.
St. James’s Hospital Tissue Establishment incorporating the
Cryobiology Laboratory has received their license to operate
as a Tissue Establishment from the Irish Medicine Board
(IMB) following inspection in accordance with EU Directives
2004/23/EC; 2006/17/EC and 2006/86/EC (SI 598 of 2007
and SI 158 of 2006).
The photograph below shows the core haematology and
the biochemistry laboratory together, now termed the Blood
Sciences core laboratory facility.
Developments/Projects
Infrastructural Developments
The development of a core laboratory facility for total
automated laboratory systems for high volume assays
in biochemistry, haematology and immunology began in
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