UK NEQAS for Immunocytochemistry and In-Situ Hybridisation

UK NEQAS ICC & ISH) provides an international external quality assessment and technical advice/education service to healthcare laboratories in the UK and throughout the world.

All UK NEQAS designated schemes are members of the UK NEQAS Consortium, a not-for-profit company and a UK Registered Charity. The Scheme was founded in 1985 by Mr Gerry Reynolds at Mount Vernon Hospital, Middlesex. At that time its participant-base comprised approximately 20 laboratories based predominantly in and around London. Since that time, it has grown into an international organisation serving over 500 laboratories and operating in more than 50 countries.

UK NEQAS ICC & ISH is hosted by External Quality Assessment Services for
Cancer Diagnostics CIC; a not-for-profit Community Interest Company limited by
guarantee registered in England and Wales

Under very unusual circumstances due to the National Lockdown for the Covid pandemic, Fresh Workspace and UK NEQAS worked together entirely via Zoom to understand the brief, develop a design, specify the works to refurbish, fit out and deliver on their new 4 storey home in Coldbath Square in the heart of London.

Careful and creative use of the available space provided UK NEQAS ICC & ISH with a mix of offices, open plan workspace, assessment rooms and practical analysis areas allowing their admin and scientific staff to carry out their work in the fields of diagnosis, research and quality assessment.  A cleverly designed shower and additional tea point facilities were an added bonus in the final scheme.

Fresh Workspace’s subsequent fitting out of a new laboratory facility in an adjacent building provides UK NEQAS ICC & ISH with an in-house testing facility.

The works were carried out during the restrictions imposed by the COVID pandemic and were completed on time and to budget.