Emergency Laboratory Services (Haematology)

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Urgent Haematology Requests

Normal Laboratory Working Hours

Analyses requested as an emergency test should have the urgent tick box on the request form marked or the ICE request completed as urgent.

Out of Normal Working Hours  

  • Full Blood Count
  • INR and Partial Thromboplastin Time
  • DIC Screen
  • Urgent Sickle Cell screening
  • Malarial screen
  • Crossmatch for Blood Transfusion 
  • Issue of fresh frozen plasma/platelets/cryoprecipitate

Please contact  the shift Biomedical Scientist on bleep 2449 for BHH/Solihull or 8779 for GHH for all urgent Blood or Blood Product requests or for general advice and availability of other investigations. 

 

Specimen Transportation

Laboratory Medicine Specimen Reception is open from 08:00 - 20:00 Monday-Friday and from 09:00-13:00 Saturday am. Specimens should be delivered here packaged within a sealed appropriate request form and in a transport box. Outside of these hours samples should be delivered to the Blood Bank Issue Fridge room located by the barrier to the main car park (Yardley Green Road entrance).

For Solihull, specimens can be delivered to the Solihull laboratory between 08:30 and 17:30 Monday to Friday. At all other times specimens should be left for collection in Solihull MAU for transport via courier to Heartlands Hospital.

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Location of Laboratories

Patient Information

General Information

The laboratories at Heartlands Hospital, Good Hope Hospital and Solihull Hospital form part of the services provided by University Hospitals Birmingham and are UKAS (United Kingdom Accreditation Service) accredited to the ISO 15189:2012 standard. For a list of accredited tests and other information please visit the UKAS website using the following link: https://www.ukas.com/find-an-organisation/

  • Heartlands, Good Hope and Solihull Hospital pathology laboratories are a UKAS accredited medical laboratory No.8217
  • United Kingdom Health Security Agency laboratory is a UKAS accredited medical laboratory No.8213

Tests not appearing on the UKAS Schedule of Accreditation currently remain outside of our scope of accreditation. However, these tests have been validated to the same high standard as accredited tests and are performed by the same trained and competent staff.

For further test information, please visit the test database: http://www.heftpathology.com/frontpage/test-database.html.

Protection of personal information - Laboratory Medicine comply with the Trust Data Protection policy and have procedures in place to allow the Directorate and its employees to comply with the Data Protection act  1998 and associated best practice and guidance.

For further information contact Louise Fallon, Quality Manager, 0121 424 1235

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