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All you wanted know about hiring NABL consultants

Whether you own and run a medical laboratory or you are thinking of starting one, it is important that it achieves NABL accreditation complying to ISO 15189 standards. Accredited medical laboratories enhance their credibility and competence in the services being offered by them.

In order to successfully achieve NABL accreditation, a medical laboratory must meet management requirements which relates to organization and management responsibility, management commitment, needs of the users, quality objectives and planning, and communication. It is imperative for a medical lab to establish, implement, and maintain a high quality management system in accordance with the requirements of the International Standard ISO 15189. The medical lab is also supposed to meet the documentation requirements, and abide by the service agreements and rules for NABL accreditation.

Then there are requirements to be met for evaluation and internal audit processes, risk management, accommodation and environmental conditions, laboratory equipment, reagents, and consumables, pre-examination processes, and examination procedures, inter-laboratory comparisons, post examination processes, and reporting of results.

If you don’t possess enough knowledge about the procedure and process involved in NABL accreditation, you may hire NABL consultants. NABL consultants facilitate accreditation services to various medical diagnostic lab spread throughout the region where they are based and are offering their services. NABL consultants possess valuable knowledge about the whole procedure. They know what all is required and how things should be done in order to gain NABL accreditation for medical laboratories. No matter whether it is a hospital attached lab or an independent diagnostic lab, qualified and experienced NABL consultants can easily facilitate NABL accreditation for you.

Here are a few important things to keep in mind when hiring NABL consultants

Check the experience of the NABL consultants. It is advisable to look for consultants with sufficient experience in this field since such consultants are well versed with the whole process and can simplify things for you.

Ask the NABL consultants about their past clients. Have they provided assistance to other medical laboratories in the past? And is yes, which are those laboratories? You must talk to some of them to find out about the quality of service being rendered by that particular NABL consultancy firm or individual consultant.

Fix an appointment with the NABL consultant that you are planning to choose. Discuss your service requirements with them. Make sure they can meet your individual requirements and can guide you throughout the whole process of accreditation from start to finish.

You must also ask the NABL consultants if they offer additional services, like training the staff on NABL standards requirements, handhold on implementation of the standards, conducting internal audit to verify the effectiveness of the implementation, and helping in facilitating accreditation to NABL standards.

Choose the right NABL consultants and get your medical laboratory accredited to NABL standards.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Joe Anderson .