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Notification of Change

In order to improve the service to our users we have made some changes to our repertoire Validation/verification of these assays has been performed.

Changes include:

Urine Mets on Sciex 6500 already on the Sciex 5500 assay to be available on both analysers

HVA/VMA GCMS Sciex 6500 assay moved from GCMS Agilent 6890

Testosterone on Sciex 6500 already on the Sciex 5500 assay to be available on both analysers

 

Testosterone on Alinity in addition to Testosterones on the Sciex 5500 and 6500

5HIAA on Sciex 5500 assay moved from Agilent HPLC

Anti GAD antibodies on the DS2 new assay

 

Acyl carnitines TQS assay moved from TQ and TQD

 

C-Peptide on Alinity in addition to ELISA kit

 

Insulin on Alinity in addition to ELISA kit

 

TTG assay on the Gemini in addition to the Best 2000

The trace element service will be transferred from the Agilent 7700 to a new analyser NEXION 5000.

Lp(a) using a new kit from Randox on the Alinity analyser

 

However some of these assays now lie outside our scope of accreditation as assessed by UKAS. UKAS have been informed and will assess these changes as an extension to scope of our accreditation in December 2022 / January 2023. This is normal procedure when changing analyser platforms/methodology