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January 2024
Jennifer Evans Welcome to the January edition How NATA is helping keep Australian’s safe in the sun Forensics in focus: The Rwanda Forensic Institute In a digital world, in-person education has become more important than ever…
January 10, 2024 -
Accredited Workplace Drug Testing: Saving Careers and Lives
Safety must always be the first concern in any working environment. This is particularly true for safety sensitive workplaces, such as mining, transport and heavy industry. Drug testing is one measure to help ensure this happens…
December 6, 2024 -
New NATA Board Member
November 30, 2021 -
Recommendations for Verification of Assays Performance – including Point of Care AACB
The areas identified included inconsistency in verification studies and inconsistency in the expectations of the technical assessors. These inconsistencies included: Verification studies needing to expand to include: Type of non-conformance identified To help address this the…
June 6, 2024 -
How Australia is on track to be the first country to eliminate cervical cancer
This week, 13-19 November, we support Cervical Cancer Awareness Week and look at how Australia has taken a pioneering step in the global fight against cervical cancer. Since July 1st, 2022, Australia has been providing women…
November 9, 2023 -
News-in-Brief
Technical Assessor competence acknowledgement As part of NATA’s proactive approach to ensuring the up-to-date skills and competence of our Technical Assessors, we have introduced new functionality on the NATA Member / Technical Assessors portal. This portal…
June 4, 2024 -
NATA: FOSTERING THE IMPROVEMENT IN TESTING SERVICES IN AUSTRALIA
The importance of accreditation in healthcare cannot be overstated. Patients who enter the health care system – whether a hospital, medical clinic, or laboratory need to be confident that they will receive care that is safe,…
March 3, 2022 -
VALE: Vinod Reddy
NATA would like to acknowledge the passing of a highly valued staff member – Vinod Reddy – and offer our sincere condolences to his family. Vinod started with NATA in 2006 and worked in the mechanical…
November 9, 2023 -
World Sleep Day – March 17, 2023
Each year, NATA proudly supports World Sleep Day. In 2012, Sleep Disorders Services (SDS) became NATA’s 19th accreditation program. In recognising the critical importance of sleep, and to ensure the highest level of competency and care,…
March 10, 2023 -
ISBER illustrates how accreditation in biobanking can provide a competitive advantage
By Gillian Treloar, NATA Deputy Sector Manager, Legal & Clinical Australia is leading the way when it comes to the foundational elements of the emerging biobanking industry. This was the feedback from many at the International…
May 15, 2024