IMPORTANT NOTICE:

• Updated SWINE INFLUENZA COLLECTION PROTOCOL (June 2009) !!NEW!!
• The National Laboratory Guidelines for Pandemic Influenza can be accessed via the MOH website. (April 2009)

• Most comprehensive test menu in the region with over 1,200 different tests. Accredited to ISO15189 (including POCT) and AS/NZF4308 for workplace drug testing.
  
  
• Provider of laboratory services to Canterbury DHB inpatients and outpatients as well as the Canterbury community.
  
  
• Provider of reference testing to laboratories from Auckland in the north to McMurdo station in the Antarctic and esoteric testing throughout Australasia and the Asia Pacific region.
  
  
• Provider of SurePath liquid based cytology
  
  
• Provider of laboratory information systems to Taranaki DHB, Hawkes Bay DHB and Medlab South (Nelson Malborough).
  
  
• First site in Asia Pacific to install the Abbott APS Workcell automated biochemistry system.
  
  
• First hospital laboratory in Asia and Pacific to install Sysmex HTS Haematology track with Cellavision.
  
  
• Contracted by the World Health Organisation as the National Measles Laboratory for New Zealand.
• Commissioned by the Ministry of Health to install New Zealands first PC3 facility within a diagnostic laboratory.
  
  
• Extensive global collaborations with industrial and academic partners for research and teaching.
  
  
• Preferred provider for Christchurch Clinical Studies Trust for Phase I, II and III drug testing.
  
  
• Only laboratory in New Zealand performing pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD).
  
  

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