Ireland introduces first quality assurance programme for patient tissue samples

Ireland has become the first country to introduce, on a national level, a quality assurance programme which centrally monitors the practices involved in analysing patient tissue samples for diseases including breast and bowel cancer.

Data generated from the system, collected over a two-year period from October 2011 and developed by the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (RCPI) working group, was published last week. (Times) >