Sample management smoothed and services enhanced at Friarage Hospital
UK’s first chemistry and immunoassay VersaCell system in action

Friarage Hospital in Northallerton Yorkshire, part of the South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has installed the UK’s first VersaCell™ sample management system combining chemistry and immunoassay analysers from Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics.
 

Biochemical Identification Systems Allow Rapid and Easy Identification of Clinically Significant Micro-organisms

BASINGSTOKE, UK (September 14, 2010) – Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, today announced that its range of biochemical identification kits is one of the widest available to clinical microbiologists today, providing reliable results in simple and convenient formats. The range, which includes the rapid and easy-to-use Remel RapID™ microbial identification systems and the Oxoid Microbact™ biochemical identification kits, requires no capital investment, so it allows even small laboratories to confirm the identification of clinically significant bacteria, yeasts and fungi.
 

Siemens introduces fully automated HbA1c method to ADVIA Chemistry systems
Increasing productivity by consolidating specialist testing onto routine high throughput systems

Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics has introduced a fully automated ADVIA® Chemistry HbA1c assay, consolidating specialist testing onto routine high throughput analysers. 

The fully automated ADVIA Chemistry HbA1c assay is fast, accurate and precise.  The method utilises a proprietary enzyme in immunoanalysis to allow accurate determination of HbA1c in the presence of HbS and HbC variants.