News & Communications
The Scope: Issue 38, December 2024
In this issue of The Scope we feature: Download a copy here.
Beach Haven opening hours to change
Effective 6 January 2025, the Beach Haven collection centre will reduce its opening hours to 7:00am – 2:45pm, Monday – Friday. It will remain closed on Saturday, Sunday and all public holidays.
Festive season opening hours
Some of our collection centres are closed during the festive season and others are operating reduced hours. Please find details of all collection centre opening hours over the Christmas and New Year period here. NOTE: Collection centres may also have altered hours during the January. Normal opening hours will resume the week commencing 3 February […]
Standardised MDRO screening for hospital Admission
Awanui Labs Northern Microbiology team wish to standardise requesting and laboratory processing for multi-drug resistant organism (MDRO) screening prior to hospital admission. Please use this request form for any MDRO screening requests to ensure your patients get the right test at the right time. Please note that Candida auris and carbapenem resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (CRAB) screening is only […]
Labour day opening hours
Most of our collection centres are closed on Labour day (Monday 28 October), but details of the centres that are open can be found below or downloaded here. COUNTIES MANUKAU Botany292a Botany Road, Botany8.00am – 12.00pmTakanini30 Walters Rd, Takanini8.00am – 12.00pmAUCKLAND Mt Eden661 Dominion Rd8.00am – 12.00pmMt Wellington37-41 Carbine Rd8.00am – 12.00pmWAITEMATA Henderson10 Woodford Avenue8.00am – 12.00pmMairangi Bay119 […]
Patient results delivery improvement
Awanui Labs is improving the delivery of patient results directly to referrers using Medtech Evolution across New Zealand. From 30 September, referrers who are using the Medtech Evolution system, can electronically receive their patient’s test results including blood, urine, histology and cytology results in real time as they are reported by the laboratories. Awanui Labs […]
Streamlining ANA/ENA testing
– No repeat tests within nine months Repeat ANA/ENA requests: we will no longer do an ANA and/or ENA if one has already been done in the previous nine months Background: Antinuclear antibody (ANA) testing is useful in the diagnosis of systemic connective tissue diseases. A negative ANA test or a positive ANA with a […]
School holiday hours
As we approach the upcoming school holiday period, we would like to inform you of some adjustments to our collection services across Auckland from 28 September – 13 October. We anticipate reduced patient demand, and therefore have chosen a small number of collection centres that will not operate during this time. This will affect the […]
Merging duplicate tests
Awanui Labs has recently made an operational change to how we handle duplicate test requests and what this change may mean for you. Awanui Labs experiences a high degree of multiple requests for the same patients, a significant number of these requests are from different doctors within the same clinic. Currently when the patient presents […]
Update: diagnostic stewardship initiative for urinary tract infections
Awanui labs Auckland is improving the quality of patient results by implementing a pre–analytical diagnostic stewardship initiative for community-acquired urinary tract infections. This involves the requirement for an appropriate symptom-based clinical indication for urine culture requests. From 26 August 2024, urine culture requests with either no clinical details or inappropriate/irrelevant clinical details on the request […]