Spain ended 2025 with 135 accredited clinical laboratories and other diagnostic services

The National Accreditation Entity (ENAC) has presented its 2025 Activity Report, which reflects the positive evolution of the Spanish accreditation system, which, in the health part, ended the year with 135 accredited clinical laboratories and other diagnostic services, which represents a near increaseor nine percent.

Last year, the accreditation system exceeded 2,000 accredited entities and 2,500 current accreditations, reflecting an increase of close to three percent over the previous year. In this total, the 135 accreditations to clinical laboratories are included, as well as 1,197 accreditations of test laboratories, 167 of calibration, 528 ofinspection entities, 256 of product, 136 of management systems, 37 of people and 27 of validation and verification, among others.

In the health field, almost 40 percent of laboratories have expanded their specialties, which, according to ENAC, translates into an increasingly complete and reliable diagnostic offer for the health system.

Among the Nuevosthe services accredited in the last year include the first accreditation to the Spanish Society of Cytology (SEC) for the organization of aptitude tests for laboratories that carry out two types of tests to detect cervical cancer.

Likewise, the Niño Jesús University Children's Hospital and the Virgen de la Arrixaca University Hospital have obtainedaccreditation for the quantification of CAR-T cells, a fundamental test in the follow-up of patients with oncohematological malignancies treated with CAR-T therapy. Likewise, the first accreditation has been granted to the biobank of the Public Health System of Andalusia in accordance with the ISO 20387 standard, for the work it performs as a Node of Granada of the National Bank of Celu Lines(BNLC). This accreditation specifically endorses its activity of custody and distribution of human pluripotent cell lines.

At the meeting of the General Assembly of ENAC, at which the report was presented, the president of the entity, José Manuel Prieto, stressed the relevance of accreditation as "an essential tool to ensure the correct applicationof public policies, strengthen competitiveness and provide confidence in an international context characterized by technological acceleration, the transition towards more sustainable models and the evolution of European regulation "

Source: Infosalus