Abstract
Since 1974, due to the initiative of the R.C.P.A., Australian clinical biochemists have been exposed to several different external quality control programmes. All of them have had both good features and bad. Based on the lessons learned here and overseas, the following is proposed: that the A.A.C.B. takes a strong initiative in organizing an Australasian external quality control programme; that support staff be employed to run the programme under the direction of a representative advisory committee; that the matrix of the base material is demonstrably applicable to the methods and analyses to be tested; that performance indices are related to both accuracy and precision; that accuracy is related to the best available estimate of the true value. The time appears ripe to organize ourselves nationally; the alternative is to wither on the tenuous vine of large foreign schemes in which we represent a small regional minority.
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