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Annual customer survey
Our 2024 customer survey is now an on-line platform. Please forward to all clinical staff in your practice. The survey is quick and easy to complete and is an opportunity to confirm what we are doing well and to identify any areas for improvement. Please click here to complete.
Referrer newsletter: 13 September
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Merging duplicate requests
Awanui Labs has recently made an operational change to how we handle duplicate test requests and what this change may mean for you. Awanui Labs experiences a high degree of multiple requests for the same patients, a significant number of these requests are from different doctors within the same clinic. Currently when the patient presents […]
Referrer newsletter: 22 July 2024
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Collection centres hours: Friday 26 July
A large proportion of our collection centre staff will be attending an Apex Union stop work meeting on Friday 26 July. To facilitate this, all Awanui Labs collection centres in the Wellington region will close at 1pm on that day.Wellington, Kenepuru and Hutt Hospital Outpatient collection centres will be available for urgent requests. Wairarapa collection […]
Referrer newsletter: June 2024
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Diagnosis of Coeliac Disease
Coeliac disease is an immunological intestinal reaction to gluten in cereal causing the cells lining the small, intestine bowel to become damaged and inflamed. This is often found in people who are genetically predisposed to this condition. Coeliac disease in New ZealandAccording to international research, approximately 100,000 people across New Zealand have some form of coeliac […]
Upcoming change to diabetes antibodies
There are upcoming changes to how diabetes antibodies will be run within the Awanui laboratories. As some will be aware, islet cell antibodies are currently unavailable in New Zealand due to issues with the immunofluorescence slides. It is increasingly recognised that islet cell antibodies have a limited clinical utility in the diagnosis of type 1 […]
ANZAC day opening hours
Our collection centres will be closed on Thursday 25 April for the ANZAC day public holiday. The following collection centres will also be closed on Friday 26 April: