Course · 6 hours of CPD
Get your POCT service ready for ISO 15189:2022
ISO 22870 is gone and POCT now lives inside ISO 15189:2022. This course turns the standard into a checklist you can actually execute, whether you are an NHS service holding accreditation or a private provider building the evidence for the first time.
6 hours of CPD with a certificate for your CPD portfolio. Pay by card, or book with an NHS purchase order.
Who this is for
- POCT coordinators maintaining or extending UKAS accreditation
- Quality managers absorbing POCT into an existing 15189 scope
- Private clinics and pharmacy groups that need credible, inspection ready quality systems
- Consultant leads and lab managers accountable for POCT governance
What you will leave able to do
- Explain exactly what changed when ISO 22870 was withdrawn into ISO 15189:2022
- Map every relevant clause to a concrete document, record or behaviour
- Run a gap analysis of your own service during the course, with our template
- Build the risk-based approach assessors now expect, without inventing paperwork
- Prepare staff for assessment interviews so nobody is caught off guard
- Plan the route to accreditation, or to defensible good practice if accreditation is not the goal
Syllabus
Module by module
01 The new landscape
- From ISO 22870 to ISO 15189:2022 Annex A: what actually moved
- Who needs accreditation, who needs readiness, and the honest difference
- How UKAS assesses POCT within a 15189 scope today
02 Governance and the POCT committee
- Accountability that works on paper and in practice
- Agreements between lab and clinical areas: the SLA that prevents wars
- Managing the estate: device register, site register, interested parties
03 The clause by clause map
- Resources and personnel: competency, records, impartiality
- Process requirements: examination, reporting, nonconformity
- Management system requirements without a paperwork mountain
- Risk based thinking: worked examples for POCT
04 Evidence building
- The document set, prioritised: what to write first
- Records that generate themselves as the service runs
- Verification and validation for POCT devices, proportionate and defensible
05 The gap analysis
- Run our gap analysis template against your own service
- Scoring honestly: red, amber, green with evidence links
- Turning gaps into a costed, sequenced action plan
06 Assessment day
- What assessors ask coordinators, operators and management
- Witnessing: how device sessions are observed and judged
- Nonconformities: responding well and closing findings first time
Led by a specialist who has worked every side of POCT
Your course lead has spent a career in point of care testing: implementing, validating and supporting services day to day inside hospitals, consulting to device manufacturers and distributors on POCT and market access, and leading product management for POCT IT solutions. Every module draws on that mix of bench, business and digital, done for real.
Pricing
Simple pricing, team friendly
Individual
£119
- Full course access
- 6 hours of CPD, certificate included
- Gap analysis and action plan templates
- Assessment question bank
Readiness support
From £950
- Consultancy: we run the gap analysis with you
- Document review and action plan
- Pre assessment rehearsal
Teams of 3 or more save 10%, teams of 5 or more save 15%. NHS purchase orders welcome. If the standards change, your materials are updated free. Prices exclude VAT where applicable.
Questions, answered
We are a private clinic, not an NHS lab. Is this for us?
Yes. The course explicitly covers the private provider route: what accreditation involves, and what defensible good practice looks like if you are not pursuing it yet.
Is ISO 22870 really gone?
Yes. ISO 22870 was withdrawn and its requirements were folded into ISO 15189:2022. Services were expected to transition by the end of 2025, which is why readiness is urgent now.
Will this get us accredited?
No course can promise that. It gives you the map, the templates and the assessor expectations. If you want hands on help, our readiness consultancy picks up where the course ends.
Does this count as CPD?
The course represents 6 hours of CPD with a certificate for your portfolio.
Can we pay by purchase order?
Yes, NHS and corporate purchase orders are welcome.