Your health care professional should inform you of any specific requirements for your test, for example, if you need to fast prior to the test.
You can find out more about specific tests below:
Test information
- 24 hour urine collection
- 24 hour urine collection for 5-HIAA
- 24 hour urine collection (acid)
- Allergy testing
- Anal swab self collect
- Anal swab collection for ESBL, CPE, FREC and/or VRE screening
- Body fluid exposure
- Cervical screening HPV collection instructions
- Chlamydia / gonorrhoea (swab)
- Chlamydia / gonorrhea (urine)
- COVID-19 saliva test
- Diabetes in pregnancy screen
- Faeces collection
- Faecal occult blood
- Fasting tests
- Fine needle aspiration (FNA)
- Glucose tolerance test (GTT)
- Low vaginal rectal swab
- Low vaginal swab
- Mid-stream urine collection
- MRSA swabs (Christchurch)
- MRSA swab (Timaru only)
- Paediatric urine collection
- Patient safety information
- PreP swabs and urines
- Seminal fluid (fertility) – Christchurch
- Seminal fluid (fertility) – Ashburton
- Seminal fluid for fertility (Timaru)
- Seminal fluid (post vasectomy)
- Sputum collection for culture
- Sputum collection for cytology
- Therapeutic venesection
- Urine collection for cytology