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Turnaround times Samples are sent for analysis to the Willink Laboratory in Manchester, with result expected within 5 weeks.
Turnaround times Samples are sent for analysis to Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital, London. Results are expected back within 3 weeks.
Turnaround times Samples are sent for analysis to King's College Hospital, London. Results are expected back within 3 weeks.
Please phone the laboratory if an urgent ESR is being sent. Urgent: one hour from receipt Routine: within 4 hours Reference Ranges
Turnaround times Samples are sent for analysis to a referral laboratory, with results expected back within 2 weeks.
Turnaround times The samples are sent frozen by courier once a week to King's College Hospital, London, with results expected back within 3 weeks.
Samples should ideally be delivered fresh each day to the laboratory, but if this is a problem with a patient in an outlying area then they can all be sent
Urine samples sent in red capped 30 mL sterile universal containers are also accepted. 60 mL wide-mouthed container for sputum Required information Reason
Turnaround times Samples are sent for analysis to University Hospital Bristol NHS Trust with results expected back within 2 weeks. Reference ranges
Turnaround times Samples are sent for to a referral laboratory for analysis with results expected back within 2 weeks.
Turnaround times Samples are sent to a referral laboratory for analysis with results expected back within 3 weeks.
Gold top serum with blood sample for storage / differential diagnostic testing Purple EDTA tube with blood sample for storage which may need to be sent
You will be sent an appointment to be seen in clinic a few weeks after your surgery.
A report will be sent to your GP. The results of the test and any specimens taken are sent directly to your GP. This can take up to 5 weeks.
All staff testing has been reported by a text messaging service that was quickly mobilised by the Learning and Development team, who have sent over 34,000
All urine cytology reports are sent to the doctor who requested the test.
Prescriptions for intravenous SACT are sent to a manufacturing unit to be made. Prescriptions for oral SACT are sent to a dispensing pharmacy.
Turnaround times Samples are sent for assay to King's College Hospital with results expected back within 1 week.
During the scan, sound waves will be sent from the probe in pulses. They will pass through your skin to your liver and bounce back.
This requires 5 ml urine taken into a 30mL white top Universal Storage/transport Random urine samples should be sent promptly to the laboratory