Malak AlMashali

National Point of Care Testing Program Leader

Malak AlMashali is a consultant at the Health Sector Coordination Council and leader of the national point of care testing programme at the Ministry of Health. Point of care testing moves analysis out of the laboratory and next to the patient, which improves speed but distributes responsibility for quality across many operators and sites. A national programme has to set device selection, connectivity, operator training and competency, quality control and result governance so that a test done at a clinic carries the same weight as one done in a central laboratory.