Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses)

Description

The microbiology laboratory at St James’s Hospital is a large diagnostic laboratory comprising of individual sections including the molecular laboratory and the serology laboratory. These two laboratories are managed by two chief medical scientists (with scientific and administrative roles in each laboratory) under the direction of a Consultant Virologist. Each section has two senior medical scientists and two/three medical scientists who run each section on a daily basis. The molecular and serology laboratories provide a diagnostic service for a large number of service users including hospital patients, specialised STI clinics and GPs in the catchment area. The microbiology laboratory is tendering for the provision of molecular and serology analysers in two separate lots to improve the service provided. The Virology Department consists of two sections, serology and molecular, under the supervision and direction of Dr Brendan Crowley, Consultant Virologist and managed by Chief Medical Scientist Ms Yvonne Lynagh. These departments are responsible for the processing and reporting on the majority of the STI requests which has increased by approximately 50 % in the last 5 years. Molecular has seen an increase in workload over the last 5 years of 46 % for CT/NG and HBV assays and serology has seen an increase 49 % mainly around Hepatitis B, C, HIV and Syphilis. In Serology, the platform used to process the blood-borne viruses and Syphilis screening is the Abbott Architect, of which there are two in the department. The Abbott m2000 in the Molecular Department, of which there are also two are used to process samples for CT/NG PCR and HBV Viral Loads. The Virology Department consists of two sections, serology and molecular, under the supervision and direction of Dr Brendan Crowley, Consultant Virologist and managed by Chief Medical Scientist Ms Yvonne Lynagh. These departments are responsible for the processing and reporting on the majority of the STI requests which has increased by approximately 50 % in the last 5 years. Molecular has seen an increase in workload over the last 5 years of 46 % for CT/NG and HBV assays and serology has seen an increase 49 % mainly around Hepatitis B, C, HIV and Syphilis. In Serology, the platform used to process the blood-borne viruses and Syphilis screening is the Abbott Architect, of which there are two in the department. The Abbott m2000 in the Molecular Department, of which there are also two are used to process samples for CT/NG PCR and HBV Viral Loads.