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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