The audit carried out by SGS acknowledges CREA’s excellence in patient services and their management.

Valencia 20.01.15 CREA, Assisted Reproduction Medical Centre in Valencia, has been the first cen-tre of the Valencian Community certified by the new quality standard for Assisted Reproduction Laboratories, the UNE 179007 and by the ISO 9001: 2008 of Quality Management Systems. The report, carried out by prestigious auditing firm SGS, acknowledges CREA’s excellence in patient services and their management and highlights CREA’s facilities, staff’s level of knowledge and experience, working environment’s conditions, quality, transparency and level of details of offered services as well as technical set-up of laboratories for the biological materials cultured and preserved. 

The audit also states that none non-conformance with standard was detected, which is something quite unusual and achieved only by centres with excellence. 

AENOR (Spanish Association for Standardisation and Certifcation), an organisation legally res-ponsible for technical standards development in SPAIN, along with ASEBIR have developed the UNE 179007 in November 2013 to promote and improve quality and safety in assisted reproduction laboratories. This quality standard certification not only offers patients more garranties but also compels centres to pass regular controls to renew their quality certificate. 

Prior to (Before) UNE 179007 assisted reproduction laboratories willing to certificate its quality, did it according to ISO 9001, a standard applied to organizations of any kind. On behalf of assisted reproduction’s professionals it was necessary to create a specific standard to determine (define) concrete and proper requirements of this sector, adopting the good practices and the consent of the interested parties, to control traceability of materials used in the lab and to specify minimum training requirements for lab’s staff. The new standard also requires to set up human resources according to the processed samples, to count on an obligatory training plan and to follow a strict environment control of the laboratories.