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Haematology and Transfusion Department

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The Haematology Department is a fully UKAS accredited clinical laboratory service providing a comprehensive range of haematology analyses on blood and other bodily fluids to support high-quality patient care. Across University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust, our haematology laboratories receive over 1.5 million samples annually.

The laboratory is Training accredited by the HCPC and IBMS for registration and specialist portfolios and an established military training facility.

The Haematology, Coagulation and Blood Transfusion laboratories offer a routine service at all sites with an extended repertoire at the Heartlands and Queen Elizabeth sites. Good Hope, Heartlands and Queen Elizabeth sites provide a 24-hour service with Solihull providing an extended day service with out of hours cover provided from the Heartlands site.

The Queen Elizabeth site is a nominated coagulation laboratory for the West Midlands Regional Haemophilia comprehensive care service and a designated transfusion trauma centre.

Urgent Samples

Should you require any urgent full blood count or coagulation specimens to be analysed in the laboratory during core hours at QEH, you must telephone the routine laboratory prior to dispatch of the sample to obtain a specimen reference number (0121 371 6920 or ext 16290). This ‘urgent specimen’ number must be written on the request form as must the correct location of the patient. This will facilitate its processing and ensure that the results are returned directly to the requesting source. It is important to do this in order that we identify urgent specimens and provide easy identification for the laboratory staff on arrival within the department.

The following tests are available out-of-hours:

  • Full Blood Count
  • PT, APTT, Fibrinogen and D-Dimer
  • Sickle cell solubility screening test
  • Malarial parasites
  • Blood film for diagnostic purposes

For urgent special coagulation assay information click Here

The following locations are already prioritised:

Location

Turnaround time (from receipt of specimen)

ED, CDU, WAMU, WACT, WACB, WACE, WAST W620

WCCA, WCCB, WCCC, WCCD, WADM, WAMB, Oncology, W622, QCCU, QSSU,  St Mary’s Hospice and GP samples marked urgent.

1 hour

 

All Trust inpatients

4 Hours

All Turnaround times for inpatients are monitored for FBC, PT, APTT and D-Dimer.

Please note that at times of high demand or if there are instrument malfunctions we may not be able to achieve these turnaround times.