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Referral laboratories
Contact details are listed below for each of the referral laboratories listed in the test repertoire table.
Each laboratory is listed alphabetically by city, and then by laboratory name.
A to Z of referral laboratories
Birmingham
Department of Clinical Chemistry
Birmingham Children’s Hospital
Steelhouse Lane
Birmingham
B4 6NH
Telephone: 0121 333 9915 (for results)
Regional Endocrine Laboratory
Department of Clinical Biochemistry
University of Birmingham NHS Trust
Selly Oak Hospital
Raddlebarn Road
Selly Oak
Birmingham
B29 6JD
Telephone: 0121 627 1627, extension 52304
Trace Elements Laboratory
Clinical Biochemistry
City Hospital
Dudley Road
Birmingham
B18 7QH
Bristol
Cholinesterase Investigation Unit
Department of Clinical Biochemistry
The Lewis Laboratory
Southmead Hospital
Bristol
BS10 5NB
Telephone: 0117 959 6083
Department of Clinical Biochemistry
Southmead Hospital
Westbury on Trim
Bristol
BS10 5NB
International Blood Group Reference Laboratory (IBGRL)
Southmead Road
Bristol
BS10 5ND
Telephone: 0117 9912100
Buxton
Health Sciences Group
Health and safety laboratory
Harpur Hill
Buxton
SK17 9JN
Buckinghamshire
National Society of Epilepsy Therapeutic Drug Monitoring Unit
(NSE TDM)
Chalfont Centre for Epilepsy
Chesham Lane
Chalfont St Peter
Buckinghamshire
SL9 ORJ
Cardiff
The Porphyria Service
Department of Medical Biochemistry and Immunology
University Hospital of Wales
Heath Park
Cardiff
CF4 4XW
Telephone: 0262 074 3565
Glasgow
Department of Clinical Biochemistry
Glasgow Royal Infirmary
Castle Street
Glasgow
G4 0SF
Guildford
The Clinical Laboratory
Level B
Royal Surrey County Hospital
Egerton Road
Guildford
Surrey
GU2 5XX
SAS Trace Elements Laboratory
Surrey Research Park
15 Frederick Sanger Road
Guildford
Surrey
GU2 7YD
Leeds
Cytogenetics Unit
St James’s University Hospital
Beckett Street
Leeds
LS9 7TF
Telephone: 0113 206 5419
Department of Chemical Pathology
St James’s University Hospital
Beckett Street
Leeds
LS9 7TF
Department of Transplant Immunology
St James’s University Hospital
Beckett Street
Leeds
LS9 7TF
Leicester
Calculi Assay Laboratory
Special Biochemistry
Sandringham Building
Leicester Royal Infirmary
Infirmary Square
Leicester
LE1 5WW
Liverpool
Department of Paediatric Clinical Biochemistry
Royal Liverpool Children’s NHS Trust
Alder Hey Hospital
Liverpool
L12 2AP
Telephone: 0151 228 4811, extension 2486
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Pembroke Place
Liverpool
L3 5QA
Telephone: 0151 7053100
or direct line 0151 703220
London
Department of Chemical Pathology
Great Ormond Street Hospital
Great Ormond Street
London
WC1N 3JH
Telephone: 0207 405 9200, extension 5009
Medical Toxicology
3rd Floor, Block 7
South Wing
St Thomas’ Hospital
Lambeth Palace Road
London
SE1 7EH
Telephone: 0207 188 8686
or 0207 188 8690
or 0207 188 8783
or for the anticonvulsant TDM call 0207 188 8689
Purine Research Unit
Biochemical Sciences Dept.
Viapath Laboratory
North Wing
St Thomas’ Hospital
London
SE1 7EH
Telephone: 020 7188 8008 (for results) or 020 7188 1266 (for advice)
UCL Institute of Neurology/Neuropathology
Queen Square
London
WC1N 3BG
Department of Clinical Biochemistry
King’s College Hospital
Denmark Hill
London
SE5 9RS
Telephone: 0207 737 4000, extension 4127
Pathology Lab,
T0, Main Building,
North Middlesex Hospital,
Sterling way,
Edmonton,
London
N18 1QX
Telephone: 020 7679 9326
SAS Laboratories
Clinical Biochemistry and Medical Oncology
Charing Cross Hospital
Fulham Palace Road
London
W6 8RF
Telephone: 020 3313 3949
Leukaemia Research Unit
Department of Haematology
Hammersmith Hospital
Du Cane Road, London, W12 0HS
Telephone: 020 3313 1000 (switchboard)
Protein Reference Unit (PRU)
St George’s Hospital
Medical School
Cranmer Terrace
London
SW17 0NH
Telephone: 020 8725 0025
SAS Steroid Profiling Laboratory
Department of Clinical Biochemistry
King’s College Hospital
Denmark Hill
London
SE5 9RS
Tel: 0207 737 4000, extension 4131
Manchester
Biochemical Genetics
Genetic Medicine
St Mary’s Hospital
Oxford Road
Manchester
M13 9WL
Telephone: 0161 707 2137
Specialist Assay Laboratory
Clinical Research Department
2nd Floor Clinical Sciences Building 3
Manchester Royal Infirmary
Oxford Road
Manchester
M13 9WL
Telephone: 0161 276 4179
Clinical Biochemistry Department
Whythenshawe Hospital
South Manchester
Southmore Road
Whythenshawe
Greater Manchester
M23 9LT
Middlesex
Department of Clinical Biochemistry
Northwick Park Hospital
Watford Road
Harrow
Middlesex
HA1 3UJ
Department of Immunology
Harefield Hospital
Hill End Road
Harefield
Middlesex
UB9 6JH
Telephone: 01895 828570
Newcastle upon Tyne
Biochemistry Department
Freeman Hospital
Freeman Road
High Heaton
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE7 7DN
Telephone: 0191 223 1577
Department of Haematology
Royal Victoria Infirmary
Queen Victoria Road
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE14 4LP
Telephone: 0191 2231013
SAS Laboratory
Department of Clinical Chemistry
Royal Victoria Infirmary
Newcastle Upon Tyne
NE1 4LP
Telephone: 0191 2824025
Nottingham
Department of Clinical Pathology
City Hospital Campus
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
Hucknall Road
Nottingham
NG5 1PB
Department of Clinical Pathology
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
QMC Campus
Derby Road
Nottingham
NG7 2UH
Telephone: 0115 924 9924, extension 63094
Norwich
Laboratory Medicine
Level 1
East Block
Colney Lane
Norwich
NR4 7UY
Oxford
Immunology Department
Churchill Hospital
Old Road
Headington
Oxford
OX3 7LJ
The National Haemoglobinopathy Reference Centre
Oxford Haemophilia Centre
The Churchill Hospital
Headington
Oxford
OX3 7LJ
Telephone: 01865 572769
Penarth
Cardiff Toxicology labs
The Academic Centre
Llamdough Hospital
Penarth
CF64 2XX
Telephone: 0292 071 6893
Sheffield
Department of Clinical Chemistry
Floor G
Royal Hallamshire Hospital
Glossop Road
Sheffield
S10 2JF
Telephone: 0114 271 2348
HODS
Floor H
Royal Hallamshire Hospital
Glossop Road
Sheffield
S10 2JF
Telephone: 0114 271 1734
Protein Reference Unit (Immunology)
PO Box 894
Sheffield
S5 7YT
Telephone: 0114 271 5552
Coagulation Department
Floor H
Royal Hallamshire Hospital
Glossop Road
Sheffield
S10 2JF
Telephone: 0114 271 3022 or 0114 271 2955
Department of Haematology
Floor H
Royal Hallamshire Hospital
Glossop Road
Sheffield
S10 2JF
Telephone: 0114 271 2859
Department of Chemical Pathology
Sheffield Children’s Hospital
Western Bank
Sheffield
S10 2TH
Telephone: 0114 271 7000
Cytogenetics Department
Sheffield Children’s Hospital
Western Bank
Sheffield, S70 2TH
Telephone: 0114 271 1734
Department of Clinical Chemistry
Northern General Hospital
Herries Road
Sheffield
S5 7AU
Telephone: 0114 271 4716
Sheffield Diagnostic Genetic Services
Sheffield Children’s Hospital
Western Bank
Sheffield
S10 2TH
Telephone: 0114 271 7014 or 0114 271 7003
Shrewsbury
Department of Clinical Biochemistry
Royal Shrewsbury Hospital
Mytton Oak Road
Shrewsbury
SY3 8XQ
Telephone: 01743 261158
Southampton
Trace Element Unit
Clinical Biochemistry
Southampton General Hospital
South Academic Block
Level D
Southampton
SO16 6YD
Telephone: 02380 796237 or 02380 796675
Wigan
Clinical Biochemistry
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Trust
Wigan Lane
Wigan
WN1 2NN
Telephone: 01942 822127