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<p>The Department of Health, Public Health England (PHE) or NHS England do not hold
information about which laboratories are and are not International Organization for
Standardization (ISO) 15189 accredited. A list of accredited laboratories is held
on the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS) website and is the definitive list
of accredited laboratories to which the Department, PHE and the NHS refer. Accreditation
is covered by the Clinical Pathology Accreditation (CPA) company until recently, and
is now part of the UKAS scheme.</p><p> </p><p>There is no intention to transfer the
Lyme disease testing service from the Rare & Imported Pathogens Laboratory (RIPL)
to another laboratory. RIPL as a department will move from the Porton site as part
of the PHE relocation scheduled to commence in 2018 but no decision on the exact date
has been made. RIPL is scheduled to transfer to ISO 15189 in late summer 2016, when
the ISO inspection team review the tests offered by the laboratory under ISO 15189.
Until that time, the laboratory is operating under CPA in accordance with the transition
process laid down by ISO.</p><p> </p>
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