ATS issued the first scope of accreditation in the field of point-of-care testing (POCT)

On July 20th, 2022 the Accreditation Body of Serbia (ATS) made a decision to extend the scope of accreditation of the accredited conformity assessment body University Clinical Center, Center for Medical Bicohemistry (accreditation number: 03-001) for the point-of-care testing (POCT) according to the standard SRPS EN ISO 15189 and SRPS EN ISO 22870.

On this occasion, this CAB was issed a new scope of accreditation on August 1st, 2022, in the premises of ATS by MSc Dragan Pušara, ATS Acting Director, he ceremoniously handed over the certificate to prim. Sanja Stanković, PhD, director of the Center for Medical Biochemistry of the Clinical Center of Serbia.

Tatjana Vodnik, PhD, specialist in clinical chemistry, employed at the University Clinical Center, MSc Milica Jovčić, ATS assistant director for accreditation process and Jelena Stojanović, senior file manager of accreditation, attended this solemn event.
With this, the procedure of extending the activities of ATS to the work of point-of-care testing (POCT) according to the standard SRPS EN ISO 15189 and SRPS EN ISO 22870 was sucessfully implemented, and in accordance with the previously published information on the website of ATS https://www.ats.rs/sr/vesti/2022/02/prosirenje-oblasti-rada-ats-a-na-akreditaciju-medicinskih-laboratorija-prema-srps-en-iso-15189-i-srps-en-iso-22870-ispitivanje-uz-pacijenta-point-of-care-testing-poct.
You can read more about the accreditation of medical laboratories according to the SRPS EN ISO 15189 and SRPS EN ISO 22870 standards for point-of-care testing (POCT) as well as the importance of accreditation in this field in the 27th issue of ATS Bulletin, the electronic edition which is also available via the link https://www.ats.rs/sr/dokument/622 .
                 
MSc Milica Jovčić, assistant director for accreditation process, Jelena Stojanović, senior file manager of accreditation, MSc Dragan Pušara, ATS Acting Director, Prim. Sanja Stanković, PhD, director of the Center for medical biochemistry of the Clinical Center of Serbia, Tatjana Vodnik PhD, specialist in clinical chemistry, employed in University Clinical Center (from left to rigth) 

                                
MSc Dragan Pušara, ATS Acting Director, Prim. Sanja Stanković, PhD, director of the Center for medical biochemistry of the Clinical Center of Serbia

Sincerely,

Your ATS