Speakers
National Audit Day
10:05 – 10:45 Finlay MacKenzie - NEQAS - Director and Consultant Clinical Scientist
10:45 – 10:50 Discussion
Finlay MacKenzie is the Director and Lead Scientist of Birmingham Quality, which is the largest UK NEQAS Centre for Clinical Chemistry operating over 50 Schemes with hundreds of participating laboratories.
He is an NHS Consultant Clinical Scientist and is Organiser of many EQA Schemes in Clinical Chemistry, but is perhaps most well-known for the UK NEQAS for Thyroid Hormones. His biggest interest is in trying to demystify some of the statistics that haunt the EQA arena and has been instrumental in using graphical output to explain laboratory and method performance in regular reports and commentaries. The SAUSAGE(S) initiative for eGFR was a case in point which impacted all UK laboratories. Combining analytical method performance and individual Laboratory interpretations in the Rainbow Trout plot is now the go-to graph for this type of data.
He has contributed to several international IFCC Committees as well as serving on the UK NEQAS Board of Trustees.