We’re excited to announce the next generation of non-invasive prenatal screening, Illumiscreen, is now available in Aotearoa New Zealand from across the APHG laboratory network. Non-invasive prenatal screening (NIPS), sometimes known as NIPT, has been available for quite some time to screen fetal DNA for trisomy 21 (Down), 18 (Edward), 13 (Patau). We now have the latest […]
Changes to HIV testing in pregnancy in the Northern Region, 1st September 2022 As of 1st September 2022, the first antenatal blood panel will include HIV testing. Up until now, universal HIV testing has been recommended at the first antenatal visit but has required a specific request, which has led to sub-optimal testing rates. Following a […]
Our current supplier for the 70 mL orange-lid specimen container can no longer supply this stock. We havemanaged to identify another supplier that can manufacture similar specimen container with a pink lid. Theorange and pink lid containers are essentially the same. Labtests will continue to supply the orange lid containersuntil stock has been consumed. When […]
Labtests will be recommencing allergen skin prick testing in the community commencing on November 15, 2021. Originally we stated that we would be unable to offer this until we were at Level 2, however with the new traffic light system we are planning to offer limited skin prick testing slots to: Patients aged 12 years […]
Planned outage of Labtests consumables ordering website: What this means to you: We will be performing a scheduled change to migrate across to a new consumables ordering web site. This is needed because we are upgrading our consumables web page over the weekend. We are confident that you will find the new consumables ordering system […]
In the latest issue of Labtests’ newsletter The Scope you will find: Lockdown Level 4 version 2.0 – new challenges, flexible systems and good communication; When it’s not just the drug; Iron deficiency and iron deficiency anaemia; When is a prolactin result abnormal? Labtests to adopt new improved formula to calculate LDL cholesterol; Key contacts. […]
In the latest issue of Labtest’s newsletter THE SCOPE you will find: Positive partnershipsMonitoring of urine analytes in patients forming recurrent renal stoneLipase the preferred test for pancreatitisBlood lead: Lowering of the notification levelPSA change from Siemens to Roche MethodAxe the Fax reminder Read the full newsletter here>>
Labtests introduced eOrders, a system which replaces the paper laboratory test request with an electronic version. This eOrder is then available at any one of our 55 collection centres at the time when the patient presents for testing. Generating an eOrder instead of a paper request form means that when patients attend a collection centre, […]
Download PDF version here >>> IMPORTANT – correct completion of COVID-19 swab request forms It is essential that all relevant information is on the request form accompanying COVID-19 specimens. Labtests receives around 2,000 COVID-19 specimens per day and this can increase to 7 – 8,000 specimens during surges when alert levels change and positive community […]