News & Communications
The next generation of prenatal screening now in NZ
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 […]
Lab Update: Critical shortage of reagents for lipids resolved
We are pleased to inform you that we have received our shipment of lipid reagents and are able to process all lipid profiles going forward. Please note that profiles taken last week that were not flagged as urgent will not be able to be processed due to age of sample and work volumes. We want […]
Labtests CBD Collection Centre relocation
The CBD collection centre will be relocating. The centre at the current address (280 Queen Street) will be closing end of business on Wednesday 12 October 2022 and will be re-opening on 6 June 2023. Alternative Collection Centres from 13 October 2022: The new CBD collection centre address will be 43 High Street, CBD, Auckland. […]
Lab Update: Changes to HIV testing in pregnancy
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 […]
Lab update – new 70mL containers
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 […]
Lab update – skin prick testing
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 […]
Lab update – consumables ordering change
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 […]
The Scope – September 2021
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. […]
Discontinuation of respiratory serology tests
LabPLUS are in the process of reviewing their test menu for infectious serology and several antibody tests will be discontinued. Read more>>
The Scope – May 2021
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>>