The out of hours Biochemistry service operates Monday to Friday 17:00 to 09:00, all day at weekends and on public holidays. The service is provided for tests that are necessary for the immediate management of the patient. Most routine tests (listed below) are available if required but please note that blanket screens should be avoided.
To contact the laboratory out of hours please bleep 293 (RBH) or call 0119 322 8851 or 0300 6153937/3403 or bleep via switchboard (WPH)
The on-call Consultant Chemical Pathologist/Clinical Scientist can be contacted via switchboard.
The out of hours service operates Monday to Friday 17:00 to 08:30, all day at weekends and on public holidays. The service is provided for tests that are necessary for the immediate clinical management of the patient. A comprehensive repertoire of investigations is provided, excluding only specialised time-consuming tests or those that are normally batch processed.
There is no requirement to notify work sent unless it is of exceptional urgency or includes special investigations such as sickle test or malaria screen.
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Routine Haematology |
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Coagulation |
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In exceptional circumstances prior arrangements can be made for factor assays to be performed out of hours, for example in the case of a known factor deficient patient requiring surgery.
All requests for blood or blood products required at any time during the out-of-hours period should be notified to the duty BMS via bleep 298 or through switchboard. There is no requirement to notify when sending group & save samples.
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Blood Transfusion |
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Crossmatch requests for blood required after 11:00 the next day will be booked into the computer, grouped and screened and left ready for crossmatch the following day. Samples received for other special investigations are stored as appropriate for despatch or analysis the following day.
For Microbiology, please contact Wexham Park laboratory on 01753 633468/ 3467
Cellular Pathology will only undertake urgent work on a Saturday morning by prior arrangement with the laboratory - extn. 7738.