The guidance focuses on ensuring IVDs are fit for purpose within ISO 15189 requirements. It reinforces laboratories’ responsibility to verify and, where necessary, validate device performance in their own clinical context, including assessing accuracy, precision, sensitivity and specificity.
Validation Guidance for medical laboratories, created in collaboration with IBMS, MHRA and UKAS, focuses on ensuring IVDs are fit for purpose within ISO 15189 requirements.
See all the latest international opportunities at EFLM and IFCC. Includes: Committee Committee "Endocrine Laboratory Medicine" and "Ethics in Laboratory Medicine" (C-E).
This opportunity focuses on advancing LabMed’s environmental sustainability agenda by working with Green champions, committees, and staff to turn ambition into action and support Council’s strategic direction.
This senior leadership role strengthens the clinical voice of laboratory medicine across LabMed and the wider healthcare system, ensuring it is reflected in guidance, research, audits and national consultations.
Join the President and other Exec members to hear about our recent project to modernise and update LabMed’s key governance documents including our Articles of Association and Bye-laws. We’ll be asking members to votes on these at the AGM in June so this is your chance to ask us any questions.
LabMed is delighted to congratulate member and Scotland Chair Professor Seshadri Vasan on being awarded the inaugural Taylor Medal by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.
Significant changes include a much simpler site architecture, designed to help users find the information they need quickly. Test pages have also been completely redesigned based on user feedback, with a clearer structure and more logical presentation of information for non-specialist readers.
LabMed members are invited to nominate candidates for the EFLM Young Laboratory Medicine Professional Award 2026. This award recognises the contributions of young professionals in laboratory medicine and will be presented at the EFLM Strategic Conference.
LabMed Learning Academy is moving to a new digital platform, offering a more accessible, interactive and practical learning experience tailored to the needs of laboratory medicine professionals.
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is inviting feedback on proposals for an approach to indefinitely recognising CE marked medical devices in Great Britain.