Posters

2026

2026 ESCMID P2108 Designing H pylori EQA

2026 ESCMID Implementation & evaluation of the UK NEQAS SARS-CoV-2 point-of-care EQA scheme during the COVID-19 pandemic

2026 ESCMID Development of a bioinformatics-driven external quality assessment platform for RSV whole genome sequencing

2025

2025 UK NEQAS Respiratory Viruses Point-of-Care EQA: Assessing Diagnostic Accuracy for RSV, Influenza and SARS-CoV-2

2025 Development of a Global External Quality Assessment Platform for Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Whole Genome Sequencing

2025 Development of External Quality Assessment Scheme for β-D-Glucan Testing

2024

2024 Design & development of a new EQA scheme to enhance diagnostic accuracy of GBS screening in pregnant patients

2024 Two-year review of the Hepatitis E detection EQA scheme

2023

2023 UK NEQAS Novel EQA in Development – Group B Streptococcus Screening

2023 Development of a Bespoke External Quality Assessment Scheme for Heart Valves

2022

SARS-CoV-2 Point of Care: UK NEQAS for Microbiology New EQA Scheme

An Introduction Of An External Quality Assessment Scheme For The Identification Of Carbapenemase Producing Organisms

Development Of A Carbapenemase-Producing Organisms (CPO) EQA Scheme

2020

A Look Back of 50 Years of External Quality Assessment in Microbiology

2020 Introduction Of An External Quality Assessment Scheme For The Molecular Detection Of SARS-CoV-2 Organised Jointly By The UK NEQAS Consortium and NIBSC

2020 Launch of a new EQA scheme for Molecular detection of Faecal protozoa by UK NEQAS Parasitology

2019

2019 ECCMID Programming the teaching of diagnostic parasitology: The UKNEQAS approach

2019 ECCMID Results from the 2018 Antimicrobial Susceptibility testing External Quality Assessment (EQA) exercise organised for EARS-Net Participants

2019 ECCMID New UK NEQAS EQA Scheme: Fungal Biomarkers

2018

2018 ECCMID Results from the 2017 antimicrobial susceptibility testing external quality assessment (EQA) exercise organised for EARS-Net Participants

Review of Trends and Performance in UK NEQAS Microbiology’s General Bacteriology Scheme: April 2014 to March 2018

2018 ESCV First year review of the Molecular detection of respiratory viruses EQA scheme

2018 ESCV Lessons learnt from a Hepatitis C RNA detection distribution

2018 ECCMID Freeze-dried blood is a suitable analyte for Malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDT) EQA scheme

2018 ECCMID Are commercial assays able to detect all the high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) genotypes

2018 ECCMID UK NEQAS EQA scheme development: cryptococcal antigen detection in clinical specimens to help in the diagnosis of cryptococcosis

2018 ECCMID An external quality assessment programme addressing the pressing needs of clinical microbiology laboratories using MALDI-TOF MS

2017

2017 ECCMID EARS-Net EQA results 2016

2017 ECCMID Galactomannan Antigen Detection in Clinical Specimens

2015 ECCMID EARS-Net EQA results 2014

2016

2016 ECCMID EARS-Net EQA results 2015

2015

2015 IBMS Faecal Transwab

2015 IBMS Potential EQA for the Detection of Galactomannan in Serum Samples

2015 IBMS EQA Panel for the Detection of Gastroenteritis viruses

2014

2014 ECCMID Gastroenteritis viruses

2014 ECCMID Antifungal susceptibility

2014 ECCMID EARS-Net EQA results 2013

2014 ECCMID Semi-automated methods in EQA

2013

2013 Trends in Medical Mycology, 10 Years Experience with Performance in Fungal Identification in UK NEQAS

2013 European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, 2012 EARS-Net results

2012

2012 European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, AST guidelines and methods

2012 European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, MRSA and mecA variant

2012 University of Greenwich-UK, Mumps IgG

2011

2011 European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Clostridium difficile

2011 University of Surrey-UK, Norovirus

2011 European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, MRSA

2011 European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, 2010-EARS-Net results

2010

2010 International Papillomavirus Conference, HPV

2010 Health Protection conference, Clostridium difficile

2010 Health Protection conference, MRSA

2010 European Society for Clinical Virology, HPV

2010 Health Protection conference, HIV Point of Care Testing

2006

2006 International Congress on Infectious Diseases, General bacteriology performance 1996-2005

2006 European Society for Clinical Virology, Rubella IgG low level 2002-2006