More And Better
The North Lisbon Hospital Centre creates “Core Lab”
On December the 8th 2008, within the scope of the commemorations of the 54th anniversary of the Santa Maria Hospital, the North Lisbon Hospital Centre (NLHC) inaugurated the new premises of the Clinical Pathology Service, located on the third floor of the building.
The structural alterations, which are now completed, allowed the creating of conditions for the setting up of a “Core Lab” in the North Lisbon Hospital Centre – Santa Maria Hospital Unit, one of the largest labs in the Iberian Peninsula and with the greatest capacity in Portugal, where from now on most analytical determinations will be carried out.
According to Professor Melo Cristino, Director of the NLHC Clinical Pathology Service, it is estimated that it will have an average capacity of sixty to seventy thousand analyses per day, a number calculated for ten hours of work per day, which is equivalent to about fifteen million analyses a year.
The “core lab” meets all current demands in terms of legal requirements and good laboratory practices, and is equipped with the most modern technology.
The main advantages associated to the centralisation of the laboratories include:
- Swiftness of results – reduction in response time for the results supplied, allowing a swifter medical diagnostic and/or therapeutic intervention;
- Profitability of resources – reduction in reagents and consumables in carrying out analytical determinations;
- Reduction of technical errors – reorganization of flows and working methods, optimizing the available technology;
- Optimisation of human resources – establishing of shifts according to needs throughout the whole working cycle, with economy of technical work;
- Greater security – carrying out of tasks with high risk of contamination without direct manipulation, allowing the performing of tests with fewer risks;
- Greater quality of the service provided.
An increase in efficiency in the field of Clinical Pathology in the North Lisbon Hospital Centre is thus foreseen: more tests, greater speed, better quality, higher safety and a reduction in costs.
![Imagens do laboratório](http://news.medicina.ulisboa.pt/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/lab1.jpg)
![imagens do Laboratório](http://news.medicina.ulisboa.pt/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/lab2.jpg)
North Lisbon Hospital Centre Communication and Public Relations Office
gab.com@hsm.min-saude.pt
The structural alterations, which are now completed, allowed the creating of conditions for the setting up of a “Core Lab” in the North Lisbon Hospital Centre – Santa Maria Hospital Unit, one of the largest labs in the Iberian Peninsula and with the greatest capacity in Portugal, where from now on most analytical determinations will be carried out.
According to Professor Melo Cristino, Director of the NLHC Clinical Pathology Service, it is estimated that it will have an average capacity of sixty to seventy thousand analyses per day, a number calculated for ten hours of work per day, which is equivalent to about fifteen million analyses a year.
The “core lab” meets all current demands in terms of legal requirements and good laboratory practices, and is equipped with the most modern technology.
The main advantages associated to the centralisation of the laboratories include:
- Swiftness of results – reduction in response time for the results supplied, allowing a swifter medical diagnostic and/or therapeutic intervention;
- Profitability of resources – reduction in reagents and consumables in carrying out analytical determinations;
- Reduction of technical errors – reorganization of flows and working methods, optimizing the available technology;
- Optimisation of human resources – establishing of shifts according to needs throughout the whole working cycle, with economy of technical work;
- Greater security – carrying out of tasks with high risk of contamination without direct manipulation, allowing the performing of tests with fewer risks;
- Greater quality of the service provided.
An increase in efficiency in the field of Clinical Pathology in the North Lisbon Hospital Centre is thus foreseen: more tests, greater speed, better quality, higher safety and a reduction in costs.
![Imagens do laboratório](http://news.medicina.ulisboa.pt/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/lab1.jpg)
![imagens do Laboratório](http://news.medicina.ulisboa.pt/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/lab2.jpg)
North Lisbon Hospital Centre Communication and Public Relations Office
gab.com@hsm.min-saude.pt
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