Accreditation board unaware of lab’s existence until inquiry

The Irish National Accreditation Board (INAB) has defended its decision to retrospectively accredit a laboratory that it did not even know existed was operational for an extended period of time.

The INAB was criticised by Gabriel Scally in his supplementary report to the CervicalCheck scoping inquiry for accrediting the facility which he said did “not appear to have been considered actively by the accreditation assessors in 2016, 2017 or 2018”.