Reporting of Confirmation Test Results Sample Clauses

Reporting of Confirmation Test Results. Please provide clear details and demonstrate how your Confirmation Test findings will be reported. The proposal must describe in detail the style of reports, wording and how they will be transmitted to the Trust/provider. A detailed protocol for the reporting of confirmation test results must be included with this proposal. Please attach herewith

Reporting of Confirmation Test Results. The successful bidder will provide the relevant authorised site with written confirmation of the confirmatory test result in the form of a certificate. In cases where a certificate is needed speedily (for example and without limitation, for a relevant court hearing), the successful bidder will expedite provision and transmission of the certificate. Bidders must propose a clear and concise method of communicating confirmatory test results to sites that can be communicated by email (and if necessary, by fax). Reporting of confirmatory results by the successful bidder (on the certificate and in data returns to the Home Office) will use terminology described in the table below: Screening result Disputed? Y / N Quality Assurance Sample? Confirmatory result Medication found? Certificate of confirmatory test result to state: POS NO NO N/A N/A N/A NEG NO NO N/A N/A N/A POS YES NO POS (COCAINE) N/A CONFIRMED POS (6-MAM) YES CONFIRMED POS YES NO NEG NO OVERTURNED (NOT MEDS) POS YES YES POS YES OVERTURNED (MEDS) POS YES YES POS NEG CONFIRMED POS NO YES POS N/A CONFIRMED NEG YES NO N/A N/A C-O-C FAILURE NEG NO YES NEG N/A CONFIRMED (NO FURTHER ACTION) NEG YES YES POS N/A NEG NO NO N/A N/A N/A NEG NO YES POS N/A OVERTURNED (NO FURTHER ACTION) POS NO YES NEG N/A OVERTURNED (NOT MEDS) POS YES NO POS NO CONFIRMED POS YES NO NEG YES CONFIRMED (MEDS) Quality Assurance The Authority attaches a great deal of importance to a high quality analytical service. The drug testing laboratory must have a quality system (the “Quality Standard”) that encompasses all aspects of the testing process including but not limited to: sample receipt; Chain of Custody; security and reporting of results; screen and confirmation testing; certification of calibrators and controls; and validation of analytical procedures. Quality assurance procedures shall be designed, implemented and reviewed to monitor the conduct of each step of the testing process. The standard set by ISO 17025 must apply. The laboratory must follow UK Workplace Drug Testing Guidelines and be accredited by UKAS under ISO17025 (and ISO 9002). All assays used must be UKAS accredited. The laboratory must take part in an appropriate external quality assessment scheme. Appropriate schemes include those for drugs of abuse run by NEQAS (UK National External Quality Assurance Scheme). Evidence to show performance must be submitted with the proposal. A particular source of error is false positives caused by carry-over of drug following on...