NKK (Norwegian Clinical Chemistry EQA Program) is a non profit organization established to serve Norwegian laboratories within medical biochemistry in the fields of EQA, standardization and other quality development issues.
NKK offers EQA schemes mainly from other Nordic organizations like Labquality, NOKLUS, DEKS, Equalis but also from ECAT of the Netherlands and UKNEQAS from England. All the laboratories in the profession (about one hundred) participate regularly in a selection of about 300 different EQA schemes.
Organization
The board of NKK has three members elected by the Norwegian Society of Medical Biochemistry. The NKK office is staffed with four employees, leader Gunn Berit Berge Kristensen, Anne Elisabeth Solsvik and Brith Helen Bjelkarøy located at the main office at NOKLUS Senter in Bergen and Pål Rustad in his home office in Elverum. There is also an expert group of five laboratory professionals.
Communication
NKK´s engagement in quality development issues is communicated through the annual national NKK Conference, regular newsletters, documents on the NKK website, and by presentations at various professional meetings and congresses.
International cooperation
EQAnord is a Nordic forum in which special projects are planned and administered. The national EQA organizers carry out the practical work. NKK is also a member of the European Committee for External Quality Assessment programmes in Laboratory Medicine, EQALM.
Addresses
Internet address:
www.nkk-ekv.com
NKK
BOX 6165
NO-5892 Bergen
Gunn Berit Berge Kristensen: gunn.kristensen@noklus.no, Tel: +47 55 97 95 09/91883666
Anne Elisabeth Solsvik:anne.elisabeth.solsvik@noklus.no. Tel: +47 55 97 95 26
Pål Rustad: prustad@furst.no, Tel :+47 41264785
Brith Helen Bjelkarøy: brith.bjelkaroy@noklus.no. Tel: +47 55 97 95 00