The ability to cool and store items at particular temperatures is an important need for most laboratories. The problem is that there is no ‘one size fits all’ when it … Continue reading Choosing the correct cold storage for your laboratory
In an interview back in October 2013 Professor Steve Field, Chief Inspector of General Practice at the Care Quality Commission highlighted the problems caused by inadequate medicines management and how … Continue reading Cold chain storage – the link to wider public health
Around 10:45am on July the 10th 2015, a professor in the Entomology department of Michigan State University was terrified by an explosion in a locked laboratory across the hall. The … Continue reading Is your laboratory Sparkfree savvy?
Alison Ridyard BSVC, DSAM, DipECVM-CA, MRCVS, senior lecturer in Small Animal Internal Medicine at The Royal (Dick) Small Animal Hospital, Edinburgh contacted Labcold about the safe temperature controlled storage of … Continue reading Labcold supply Blood Bank Refrigerator and Plasma Freezer to The Royal (Dick) School
Labcold were approached by Moyra O’Shea, the Specialist Vaccine Technician for NHS Tayside who was worried about the number of non- compliant refrigerators being used for the storage of temperature … Continue reading Labcold IntelliCold Pharmacy Refrigerators supplied to NHS Tayside
This story about a fridge storing vaccine for toddlers and children from STV News shows how important recording the daily temperature is in order to keep vaccines viable and therefore … Continue reading Why recording the temperature is so important
This is some of the advice given by the Department of Health for the ordering, storing and handling of vaccines. It contains a lot of advice about the management of … Continue reading Protocol for ordering, storing and handling vaccines
We know that blood transfusion is a highly specialised discipline and that our products, such as blood banks, plasma freezers and platelet incubators and agitators need to be designed to … Continue reading Regional Transfusion Meetings
Ever since Edward Jenner noticed the correlation between exposure to a bit of disease protected people from the full blown version of the disease, new vaccines have been created to … Continue reading The power of vaccines
It seems it wasn’t just the NHS that was re-organised at the beginning of April, the DH Green Book also underwent a big review of content. Part of this was … Continue reading DH Green Book Chapter 3 – Implications for your pharmacy fridge