The LIMS that helped a lab pass UKAS — without burning a year on validation.
FreshLIMS is one platform with two ends: a Lab Platform for full lab management, QC and reporting across every discipline — chemistry, microbiology, molecular and genetics; and a Clinic Platform so clinics can order tests, share patients, and follow each result. Free for the first month — set up the same day.
Pick the side you're on. Or run both — they share the same patient.
For Diagnostic Labs
Lab Platform
Full laboratory management — from accessioning through QC, machine interfacing, results review, panic alerts and versioned PDF reporting. Built for the workflows a UKAS assessor expects to see.
For clinics that send work to a lab — submit orders, manage patients, track every sample's status, and get the result PDF the moment it's signed off. Per-clinician seats; share access across your team.
Clinical chemistry, microbiology, molecular and genetics run side by side on one platform — one patient, one order, one report. Reflex rules fire follow-on tests automatically; work you can't run goes out as a tracked referral.
Clinical chemistry & immunoassay
Quantitative results with reference ranges by age and sex, automatic eGFR, panic-value thresholds and the full Westgard QC engine.
Microbiology & AST
Cultures, organism identification and isolates through to antibiotic susceptibility — with breakpoints and intrinsic-resistance rules built in.
Molecular & PCR (NAAT)
PCR runs and targets with per-run QC controls and qualitative cut-offs for clean positive / negative interpretation.
Genetics & sequencing
Sequencing runs with variant detection and genotype interpretation, written up as specialist reports alongside the rest of the patient's record.
What you actually get
A LIMS your QC manager will defend in inspection.
Most cheap LIMS skip the parts that fail an audit. We didn't.
QC done right
Levey-Jennings charts with the full Westgard rule set (1-3s, 2-2s, R-4s, 4-1s, 10x and the 1-2s warning) and one-click investigation creation when a rejection fires.
Audit-grade trail
Append-only audit log on every meaningful action. Visitor logs, e-signature on result approval, ALCOA+ data integrity. Built to be defensible.
Clinic ↔ lab loop
Clinics order directly into your queue, see sample status update live, and receive signed PDF reports automatically. No more PDF inbox triage.
Panic value alerts
Per-assay reference ranges and panic thresholds. When a panic-value result clears the analyzer, the right people are alerted before the report goes out.
Hosted, encrypted, backed up
UK-hosted, encrypted in transit and at rest, daily backups with restore drills, role-based access, MFA. Hosting white-paper available on request.
Validation pack included
Software requirements specification, IQ/OQ/PQ test scripts, change control, data integrity statement and hosting/security white paper — given to you on day one.
Built for the regulated lab
Aligned with the standards your inspector reads.
FreshLIMS is built around ISO 15189 §6.7 (IT systems) and §7.x (process control). The validation pack maps each requirement to the platform — your QC manager hands it to the assessor.
ISO 15189
Capability mapped to clauses
IQ/OQ/PQ
Test scripts in your pack
ALCOA+
Data integrity statement
UK
Hosted, encrypted, backed up
Real result
A FreshLIMS lab passed UKAS & CQC on the same software you'd run.
One of our early labs took FreshLIMS into a UKAS 15189 assessment and a CQC inspection. The platform held — the assessor signed off the IT-systems clauses against the validation pack we provide every customer.
You get the same pack, the same engine, the same audit trail. And we'll join the prep call when you need us.