HI Rashmi. Sorry don't have a stat time for a group for the Vision, we haven't started using it routinely yet but people seem to think it may be slower than the Innova. Wont know until we get up and running hopefully early January.

We did have a bit of discussion about the cross match control with the UKAS inspector, he did site it as an NC and as you know it is in the BCSH guidelines (7.3.5.An appropriate positive control should be set up with every crossmatch, e.g. a group O, R1r or R1R1 cell tested against a weak anti-D. This provides assurance that the overall process has been performed correctly.) I suspect like a lot of people we had only been applying this to manual cross match but he was pretty sure we should be putting up controls with every automated cross match as well. I will be brining this up at our next regional meeting so I'll report back if there is anything interesting from that discussion.