Following the 2009 contract agreement with Spire Healthcare, where 17 ABX Pentra 80 haematology analysers were installed within six weeks of signing, Horiba Medical continues its strong support of Spire’s UK pathology network. With 37 hospitals, Spire is the UK’s second largest private hospital group and has recently expanded its laboratory network to 18 with the opening of Spire Washington. Owing to its ongoing successful relationship with Horiba Medical, Spire has now installed a further ABX Pentra 80 haematology analyser in this new laboratory, as well as two ABX Micros ES 60 point-of-care (POC) haematology analysers in its Harpenden and Macclesfield Wellness Clinics.
As Spire’s pathology laboratories provide routine and specialist testing on over 1.5 million samples per year to clients including independent and NHS hospitals, GPs, pharmaceutical companies, research centres, universities and the UK's largest health screening organisation, as well as its own hospitals, analyser reliability and service excellence are critical factors. “We have had a very good 20 months in our working relationship with Horiba Medical, whose team has met our haematology testing needs very proactively,” said Dr Fergus Macpherson, Spire’s pathology director. “Following the incredibly rapid initial installation of 17 ABX Pentra 80 analysers, during which Horiba Medical stuck to the delivery dates and timetable, our laboratories have been well trained and very flexibly supported in all areas.”
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