The department provides a comprehensive diagnostic bacteriology and virology service to the Trust and General Practitioners. In addition, services are provided to the local Environmental Health Offices (EHO's) and Consultant in Communicable Disease Control (CCDC) staff, together with Control of Infection (CoI) support for the CoI staff within the Trust.
Scope of the clinical microbiology service:
The following procedures are used for microbiological investigations of infectious diseases: