About Us
In December 2004 Healthscope acquired the Gribbles Brand, which has since enhanced the services of both companies for the greater benefit of our Doctors and patients.
Healthscope Pathology is comprised of 43 National Association of Testing Authorities (NATA) accredited laboratories across Australia and in excess of 300 Accredited Collection Centres (ACCs). Healthscope Pathology also encompasses international laboratory operations throughout New Zealand, Singapore and Malaysia.
Healthscope Pathology has a long and distinguished association with its clinicians and has a solid future nationally and internationally.
Quality Assurance
All Australian Medical Testing laboratories are required by National Association Testing Authority (NATA), to have a quality system that complies with the requirements of AS 4633:2004 (ISO 15189:2003). Previously our medical testing laboratories were accredited to AS ISO/IEC 17025. Our company has also gained certification to ISO 9000:2000 standard for quality systems. This is separate to our NATA accreditation.
Our Laboratory Quality System aims to:
- Maintain consistency across the network of laboratories and collection centers
- Identify improvement opportunities through the use of internal audits and corrective/preventive actions
- Provide our customers with a quality service
- Comply with the requirements of ISO and NATA
Our company meets the following management requirements:
- Operating Quality system
- Document control
- Review of requests, tenders & contracts
- Subcontracting of tests & calibrations
- Purchasing services and supplies
- Complaints, corrective & preventive action
- Control of nonconforming testing
- Control of records
- Internal audits (pre-determined schedule)
- Management review (10 per year)
Our company meets the following technical requirements:
- Personnel
- Accommodation and environmental conditions
- Test methods and method validation
- Equipment
- Measurement traceability
- Sampling
- Assuring the quality of test results
- Reporting the results