News
Change to service 22-24 April
Awanui Labs has been issued with a strike notice from the APEX union of intended action by its members for Tuesday 22 April, Wednesday 23 April and Thursday 24 April 2025. There will be a reduction of services on these dates. Our Wairarapa Hospital laboratory operations are unaffected by the strike (with the exception being microbiology […]
Holiday opening hours 14-27 April
The opening hours for our collection centres during the school holidays, including Easter and ANZAC weekends maybe changed to those advertised. Please find all opening hours here for the holiday period. Note: There will also be industrial action from 22-24 April which impacts opening hours – read more here.
HbA1c Method Change
Awanui is harmonising HbA1c testing across all laboratories by transitioning from the Bio-Rad D-100 to the Roche C513 platform. Awanui Auckland has successfully used the Roche platform for several years, and this change aligns with our commitment to improving efficiency and maintaining high-quality patient care. The current HbA1c reference interval and diagnostic, monitoring and treatment […]
Collection centre update
Awanui Labs collection centres are currently experiencing longer than usual wait times due to the impact of industrial action on our sites this week. All of our collection centres in the region are now open and operating with normal hours. However, we are experiencing a significant increase in patient visiting the centres, and a very […]
Urine collection changes
The new urine collection container now available, has a pouring lip which will assist in transferring the urine into the tube (see below). This change will reduce the amount of plastic used and manual handling done in laboratory for processing urine samples on our analysers. Urine samples must be collected in the correct specimen container […]
Diagnostic stewardship urinary tract infections
The provision of clinical details for urine specimens collected for investigation of urinary tract infection or red cell count monitoring is critical to ensure samples are processed optimally. Since the 28 January, clinical details have been mandatory and samples have not been processed until clinical details have been provided. From 3 March, 2025 urine culture requests […]
Vitamin D testing survey
Awanui Labs is working together with the University of Otago to investigate the rising trend in vitamin D testing across various medical laboratories in New Zealand and propose effective strategies to manage this increased demand. If you participate, what will you be asked to do? If you decide to participate we’d appreciate you completing a […]
Waitangi day
All of our collection centres will be closed on Thursday 6 February for Waitangi day.
Referrer update: January 2025
In this issue you will find: Read the full details here.