Aims and objectives – Guild of Medical Laboratory Directors

The Aims & Objectives of Guild of Medical Laboratory Directors Include but not limited to the following;

To create opportunities for interaction among directors of private medical laboratories;
To ensure and reinforce the recognition of private laboratories as distinct business within the health-care team;
To identify and resolve problems facing private medical laboratories in their relationship with staff, government, clients, suppliers, regulatory bodies and others;
To promote maintenance of high professional and ethical standards in private medical laboratory practice, ensuring that laboratory test result are of highest reliability, while assisting the regulatory authorities to stamp out any form of quackery that impact on the substance and image of medical laboratories;
To encourage collaboration among medical laboratories in all relevant areas including, but not limited to, procurement and maintenance quality laboratory reagents and equipment; joint ventures in regular and/or specialized test areas; participating in quality assurance schemes for laboratory tests;
To formulate, in consultation with other bodies where necessary, guidelines for fees/charges and for contractual relationship with corporate clients and other and to monitor compliance by members with agreed formats and procedures;
To encourage the improvement of the knowledge of medical laboratory practitioners through attendance at seminars, workshops, conferences and symposia etc.;
To collaborate with the Medical Laboratory Science Council of Nigeria and the Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists of Nigeria in the promotion of the practice of medical laboratory science;
To liaise with, collaborate with or practice in any other bodies; as appropriate in the furtherance of the aims and interest of the Guild of Medical Laboratory Directors whether such bodies are in health-care or other fields;
To promote active dissemination of information within the membership of the Guild of Medical Laboratory Directors, and to other health-care providers, regulatory bodies as well as to the general public as a means of furthering the aims of the Guild of Medical Laboratory Directors and ensuring awareness of the extent and limits of privilege and obligations by all these parties;
To engage in any activities that will further the aims of the Guild of Medical Laboratory Directors, the interest of its members and the promotion of better health-care for humanity