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Delivering a state of the art diagnostic service

We have a comprehensive list of UKAS accredited tests, and clinical professionals can request our analytical and interpretive services from a range of disciplines.

Microbiology: Sometimes it’s the smallest of things that have all the answers.

Blood Sciences: “750 000 specimens a month, equating to 6 tubes of blood for every person living in Leeds and Bradford”!

SLM: “Providing Specialist Clinical Biochemistry, Clinical Haematology, Clinical and Transplant Immunology services locally for LTHT and regionally for referring labs within WYAAT and beyond.”

Clinical Genetics: Finding answers for families in 3.2 billion letters of genetics code.

Neonatal Screening

The Leeds Screening Laboratory provides neonatal screening as defined by national policy. For more information please see: https://www.gov.uk/topic/population-screening-programmes/newborn-blood-spot.

This laboratory provides the neonatal screening service for all births in the following PCTs: North Yorkshire and York (except Hambleton/Richmondshire), Bradford and Airedale Teaching, Leeds, East Riding of Yorkshire, Hull Teaching, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield.

Contact the newborn screening laboratory for further advice if required (leedsth-tr.leedsscreeninglab@nhs.net).

Tube	Bloodspots on a neonatal screening card
ID	29972
Availability	Weekdays
Send to	Specialist Laboratory Medicine Block 46 St James hospital Beckett Street Leeds LS9 7TF
Contact	leedsth-tr.leedsscreeninglab@nhs.net
Advice	https://www.gov.uk/topic/population-screening-programmes/newborn-blood-spot
Collection Con	Please see: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/newborn-blood-spot-screening-sampling-guidelines or please contact your local screening coordinator.
Frequency	Daily
Sample REQ	Dried blood spots
Ref. Range Notes	All reports are sent as electronic messages via the NHS Spine to Yorkshire CHRDs. Users of the service outside Yorkshire receive reports in pdf format via NHSmail. The laboratory also uploads samples received and results to the Newborn Blood Spot Failsafe Solution. CHRDs record the results and send a letter to the parent when they have a record that all screened conditions have been reported as ‘not suspected’. Action is taken immediately on positive results according to national and locally agreed protocols. It is the policy of this laboratory to phone results to the relevant local paediatric consultant who will see the child quickly. An initial referral letter is sent by NHSmail immediately to confirm the details of a positive result. It is followed by a further letter when confirmatory testing has been completed and this letter also confirms that the other screening tests have been performed.