North Shore (09) 486 8900
Waitakere (09) 839 0000

Laboratory Services

Tests

  • When you visit your GP, specialist, midwife or other healthcare professional, they may want you to have some tests
  • These tests may help the doctor with your problem or to check for certain conditions
  • Sometimes the doctor or nurse will take a specimen (or sample) from you and send it to the laboratory for testing

Test Laboratory Referrals

  • In some cases you will be referred to the laboratory's collection sites to have your specimen collected
  • All other Laboratory testing requested in the community, must be taken at a LabTests collection centre
  • On the day of your outpatient appointment only, Laboratory staff at North Shore & Waitakere Hospitals are able to collect samples in the Outpatients' Department for testing at the DHB's laboratories or for referral to specialist centres
  • The types of specimens taken include blood samples, urine or faeces samples and skin scrapings or swabs (e.g. from your throat or ear)

Procedures / treatments

  • Haematology tests
  • Biochemistry tests
  • Microbiology tests
  • Fertility, pregnancy and natal tests
  • Immunology
  • Histology
  • Cytology 

Locations

  • North Shore Hospital
    Ph (09) 486 8920 ext 3020
    24 hours, 7 days a week
    (reduced services on weekends and public holidays)
    Outpatient Phlebotomy Service only open Monday - Friday, 8.00am - 5.00pm, closed weekends and public holidays
     
  • Waitakere Hospital
    Ph (09) 486 8920 ext 3020
    24 hours, 7 days a week
    (reduced services on weekends and public holidays)
    Outpatient Phlebotomy Service only open Monday - Friday, 8.00am - 5.00pm, closed weekends and public holidays
Laboratory Services

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