Test and service updates

This edition includes articles on planned developments during 2016, summary of transition to new courier runs, GP consumables and new collection devices for chlamydia and gonorrhoea tests.

This edition includes articles on transport, GP consumables, changes to test reference ranges and test request forms.

This edition includes articles on mass spectrometry, malaria samples, payment for private tests and vitamin D guidelines.

This edition includes articles on grossly abnormal results, guidance on labelling and requests and samples, completing downtime forms and numbers to call for results and advice.

This edition includes articles on new review of biochemistry critical results telephone limits, blood tests on returning travellers, hyperkalaemia.

This edition includes articles on ordering pathology consumables, urine microscopy – changes to reporting and sensitivity testing for campylobacter.

This edition includes articles on urine collection for Chlamydia and gonorrhoea tests, requesting blood science and immunology tests and providing results directly to patients.

This edition includes articles on a new test database, pathology requests, sample labelling and sample rejection and key performance indicators.

This edition includes articles on a new online ordering system for pathology consumables, zinc measurement and hair loss, and latent tuberculosis infection testing.