ISO 15189 Mentorship Program
Mentors work alongside your laboratory team, towards accreditation within 6 to 12 months.
About mentorship
ISO/IEC 17043:2023 accredited(certificate, PDF)
Confidence in every laboratory result.
External quality assessment, training and mentorship to support your laboratory’s quality improvement.
HuQAS in numbers
Since 2000, 700+ laboratories have registered with HuQAS, with 400+ analytes covered across 60+ programs.
Internal checks are essential.An external perspective matters too.
Laboratory results inform decisions about patient care. External quality assessment adds an independent comparison to your internal quality controls.
- Evaluate testing performance
- Identify opportunities to improve
- Support ongoing quality improvement
Find your laboratory’s EQA program.
Programs are grouped by category. The catalogue has full details of every program.
Hematology7 programs
Molecular Virology7 programs
Parasitology5 programs
Bacteriology4 programs
Serology4 programs
Chemistry3 programs
Endocrinology2 programs
Mycobacteriology2 programs
Blood Transfusion1 program
Flow cytometry1 program
Mycology1 program
Urine Chemistry1 program
From registration to your first report.
Registration takes three steps. After that, every test event follows the same cycle.
Registration
Choose your programs
Identify the programs you need from the EQA catalogue and send us your order.
Receive a quote
The HuQAS team sends a quote for the selected programs, with our standard terms.
Get set up
Once payment is done, we train your laboratory team on the HuQAS Informatics System.
Every test event
Ordering deadline
Order before the deadline for each test event.
Sample dispatch
Samples are shipped to your laboratory.
Start to end date
Test the samples and enter your results online before the end date.
Interim report
An early view of your results is released.
Final report
Your final evaluation report is published.
See how your laboratory performs.
Results are evaluated in accordance with ISO 13528:2015, against the consensus of your peers. Each report gives an overall score per program, z-score plots over time and histograms of how your results compare.
Your results are compared with three peer groups
- Instrument Peer
- Results from the same instrument manufacturer, series and model.
- Method Peer
- Results using the same methodology, such as immunoassay or kinetic rate.
- All Method Peer
- Every result submitted for the analyte.
Z-score grading
How far each result sits from the peer consensus, in standard deviations.
- Acceptable
- |z| ≤ 2.0
- Warning signal
- 2.0 < |z| < 3.0
- Not acceptable
- |z| ≥ 3.0
Training, mentorship and an annual conference.
Support for the people behind your laboratory’s results.
Upcoming trainings
- ISO 15189:2022 Implementation Training
11 to 13 November 2026, 3 days
- Quality Control Data Management in Clinical Microbiology
19 November 2026, 1 day
- Part Two: Peripheral Blood Film Training
2 to 4 December 2026, 3 days
Also run on request
Onsite, at the HuQAS training centre or online.
- Advanced Root Cause Analysis & CAPA
- Peripheral Blood Film Competency
- Good Clinical Lab Practice
- ISO 15189 Internal Auditor
- ISO 15189:2022 Transition and Implementation
- Malaria Microscopy Refresher
- Andrology
Latest conference
25th Annual HuQAS Scientific Conference
, Acacia Premier Hotel, Kisumu, Kenya
Theme: Transforming African Laboratories from Compliance to Clinical Impact.
The next conference will be announced here.
About the conference
ISO 15189:2022: what changed for medical laboratories
Accreditation to the 2012 edition of ISO 15189 is no longer valid. Here is what the 2022 edition changed and where to start.
How to read your EQA report: z-scores explained
What the z-score on your HuQAS EQA report means, how it becomes a grade, and what to do when a result comes back as a warning or not acceptable.
Which EQA program is right for your laboratory?
Tell us which programs you’re interested in and the HuQAS team will send you a quote.