Quality

During the past 35 years St John of God Pathology has gained expertise in dealing with complex hospital pathology as well as servicing medical practitioners and community patients throughout Western Australia and Victoria.

The practice provides a 24-hour per day pathology service and is also involved in providing associated services to Hospitals. These include:

• Managing and consulting on all matters relating to hospital infection control requirements
• Environmental monitoring of hospital facilities – theatres, etc
• Participating in specialist clinical meetings.
• Participating in teaching activities (undergraduate, postgraduate, nursing and community based)
• Participating in various hospital committees, such as Medical Advisory Committees 
• Specialist consulting services in association with all aspects of pathology services including clinical 

The practice currently employs approximately 1,000 staff providing extensive knowledge and experience in medical testing and laboratory management. Add to this, state of the art technology and a practice wide commitment to continuous improvement and you have a highly efficient, up to date and quality pathology service.

Through the National Association of Testing Authorities (NATA) and programs administered by the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia and other nationally and internationally recognised bodies, there has always been a great emphasis on maintaining Quality Assurance of the medical testing component of our service.

In 2000, St John of God Pathology implemented a Quality Assured system of management, which satisfies all elements of ISO / IEC 17025. In 2005 the system was further assessed to ensure it’s alignment to AS ISO 15189.

By making every employee responsible for ensuring quality is achieved in their daily work, both internal and external customers are afforded consistent quality of service throughout all aspects of our organisation.