A Laboratory Built to Raise Diagnostic Standards
Target Pathology Laboratory has had an outstanding journey in the last 3 decades of its existence. It has evolved and grown in standards in that time as well. The journey started with Dr Peter M. Atkinson in 1993. Atkinson Pathology Laboratory was born out of Dr Atkinson’s entrepreneurial zeal to set up a pathology laboratory that will compete with the two main private laboratories in South Africa at that time. He wanted a laboratory that will eliminate the bureaucratic bottlenecks that burdened the main private laboratories. He has worked for one of those laboratories as a business manager/business director for over 15years before resigning to start Atkinson Pathology Laboratory.
Over the last Years we made an impact that is strong & we have long way to go.
In January 2007, with the arrival of new shareholders, the laboratory went through a robust overhaul, which included a rebranding phase and an operational re-engineering phase. Dr Francis Ike Igbo partnered with Dr Peter Mason Atkinson in January 2007, a move that saw the company adopting a new trading name change from Atkinson Pathology Laboratory to Target Pathology Laboratory. The laboratory was Situated at 15 Raleigh Street in Yeoville, Johannesburg back then. This made Target Laboratory a BEE company.
In 2013 the laboratory acquired their own building in Park town to serve as its main central laboratory and head office. However, due to rapid growth and increasing staff complement the laboratory had to move again in September 2013 from Parktown to the current location in Booysens, Johannesburg to adequately accommodate the growing staff growing complement. The laboratory had to move yet again in July 2024 to it’s current location on Jan Smuts Avenue in Rosebank due to increasing business growth and staff complement.
Consistency
The establishment and use of standard operating procedures (SOP) in line with our Quality Management System (QMS) in compliance with various standard organizations in the pathology industry, has ensured that we are consistent in the processing of samples and delivering accurate diagnostic services to the medical practitioners and various other clients. The use of SOPs is applied in every department (from janitorial to senior management) in order to instill this consistency approach in every member of the team.
Growth Increase in labour productivity has historically been the most important source of real growth. Therefore, to us it’s all about the people. We believe that our team is the key to the growth of the business.
Service Target pathology laboratories provide a wide range of pathology services through our several laboratories. In line with our drive to continually improve the quality of our laboratory services, the management emphasises the need toward accreditation by more than one accreditation authority.
Vision
Values
QUALITY ASSURANCE
Our comprehensive quality Management system (QMS) with regards to laboratory performances assures accurate and reliable results through regular and systematic surveillance of all key components of our activities, inclusive of training, instrumentation, logistics and management. Our laboratories participate fully in relevant national and international quality control programs for all tests offered, this is in accordance with the very sensitive nature of patient care and confidentiality.
We adhere to strict protocols governing patient identification in our laboratories. Our Services also comply with all relevant laboratory standards and all organizational specifications, to ensure that test requests are properly executed. In line with the motto – Fast, Accurate and reliable – quality control is a major part of our operational and process development.
BUSINESS GOALS & SERVICES
Our goal is to develop an international laboratory network that will add value for all the stakeholders by delivering a comprehensive quality pathology service that is fast, accurate, reliable and cost effective even to the most remote part of the country. To achieve this TPL constantly strives towards improving the benchmark for Excellence in pathology.
TPL has established and is pursuing two (2) main objectives.
The first objective is to constantly remain fast accurate and reliable in our service delivery.
The second objective is to position the company to consistently remain profitable especially in the long term while observing all the mandatory regulations that govern the pathology industry.
DIAGNOSTIC SERVICES
MAJOR PATHOLOGY DEPARTMENT
It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to handle, more doubtful of success and more dangerous to implement than to take lead in the introduction of a new order of things. We emphasize on the importance of flexibility and change.
Target Pathology Laboratory is the first laboratory in Africa to develop its own software program. Developed by our founder the late Dr Peter Atkinson and our IT team. He christened it the LAB-MAN because it essentially helps in efficient laboratory management.
It is utilized from patient data entry by laboratory pre-analytical services (LPS) and has a bidirectional communication function of patient data between LPS to the analyzer and employs a unidirectional communication to the clients (doctor or patient). The system is a sophisticated computer network together with a software application to manage clinical pathology as well as finance. The system can be utilized anywhere in the world and its more cost effective than the system being offered by other suppliers and developers. Consequently, we are able to focus on our primary aim of delivering consistent accurate and reliable results to our widely diversified client base.
Referring doctors are able to access their patients result directly from our database, via a phone application and website. In addition, results are automatically sent to doctors via email and SMS upon vetting and release by the pathologists. This is a system that has been perfected and yielded groundbreaking acceptance when deployed online.
All our results are available on phone applications (android and OIS), internet, Email and SMS. The LABMAN software is available to all clients on requests bringing pathology to the desktop of our clients. Critical and abnormal results alert are sent out to doctors and calls are being made as a follow up to bring clinicians up to speed on patient’s care.
Our laboratory is defined by people. We combine regional presence with centralised expertise to support clinicians, institutions, and public health initiatives with reliable diagnostic insight.
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