Quality Assurance in Pathology Committee
The College has taken the difficult but necessary decision to pause QAPC and NQAAP activities from January 2026. Please find the full statement here.
The Quality Assurance in Pathology Committee is a multidisciplinary group accountable to the College for the oversight of performance in external quality assurance (EQA) schemes and monitoring of the EQA performance of clinical laboratories in the UK. This is achieved via discipline specific panels which report to the committee. In turn, the Quality Assurance in Pathology Committee will work with failing laboratories but is also bound to report persistent poor performance to the Care Quality Commission.
Chair: Rev Dr Gordon Sinclair
Committee Members
- Dr Dawn Yell - NQAAP in Reproductive Science, Chair Elect
- Ms Funmi Akinlade - NQAAP in Chemical Pathology, Chair
- Dr Paul Barret - NQAAP in Cellular Pathology, Chair
- Rev Dr Gordon Sinclair - NQAAP in Haematology, Chair
- Dr Daniel Payne - NQAAP in Immunology, Chair
- VACANT - NQAAP in Medical Microbiology, Chair
- VACANT - NQAAP in Genetics, Chair
- Mr Nigel Coles - IBMS representative
- Mrs Alyson Bryant - UKAS - Co-opted representative
- Mrs Sharon Fensome-Rimmer - Chief Inspector, HFEA Representative
- Ms Alexandra Yates - Association of Clinical Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine Representative
- Ms Rebecca Riches-Duit - MHRA Representative
- Ms Linda Ameh - MHRA Representative
- Ms Bina Mackenzie
- Ms Louise Hagen - Head of Vaccines, Infectious Disease, and Diagnostics in the Safety & Surveillance group (MHRA representative)
- Ms Mojisola Ajeneye - MHRA Representative