Laboratory Services

Tests

• When you visit your GP, specialist, midwife or other healthcare professional, they may want you to have some tests
• These tests may help the doctor with your problem or to check for certain conditions
• Sometimes the doctor or nurse will take a specimen (or sample) from you and send it to the laboratory for testing

Test Laboratory Referrals

• In some cases you will be referred to the laboratory's collection sites to have your specimen collected
• All other Laboratory testing requested in the community, must be taken at a LabTests collection centre
• On the day of your outpatient appointment only, Laboratory staff at North Shore & Waitakere Hospitals are able to collect samples in the Outpatients' Department for testing at the DHB's laboratories or for referral to specialist centres
• The types of specimens taken include blood samples, urine or faeces samples and skin scrapings or swabs (e.g. from your throat or ear)

Procedures / treatments

• Haematology tests
• Biochemistry tests
• Microbiology tests
• Fertility, pregnancy and natal tests
• Immunology
• Histology
• Cytology 

Locations

• North Shore Hospital
  Ph (09) 486 8920 ext 3020
  24 hours, 7 days a week
  (reduced services on weekends and public holidays)
  Outpatient Phlebotomy Service only open Monday - Friday, 8.00am - 5.00pm, closed weekends and public holidays
   

• Waitakere Hospital
  Ph (09) 486 8920 ext 3020
  24 hours, 7 days a week
  (reduced services on weekends and public holidays)
  Outpatient Phlebotomy Service only open Monday - Friday, 8.00am - 5.00pm, closed weekends and public holidays