Heart of England Pathology Directorate

This handbook encompasses all disciplines of Laboratory Medicine at Birmingham Heartlands, Solihull and Good Hope Hospitals. It has been designed to provide the busy general practitioner and hospital doctor more readily available information regarding:-

• General Laboratory Information and Services Available.
• Out-Patient Clinical Laboratory Investigations and Protocols.
• Indications for Requesting Tests.
• Specimen Collection.
• Reference Ranges.
• Reporting of Results.

The directorate is composed of the following departments:

• Biochemistry and Immunology
• Cellular Pathology
• Haematology
• Blood Bank
• Health Protection Agency (Microbiology)
• Central Services Unit