Collection services:

• Collingwood Street clinic CLOSED
• Nelson Hospital clinic               CLOSED
• Tahunanui collection centre     CLOSED
• Richmond                                 CLOSED
• Motueka collection centres      CLOSED
• Home Visits                              NOT AVAILABLE
• Hospital Ward Rounds             NOT AVAILABLE

Courier Services:

• Routine Service                        UNAVAILABLE
• Urgent courier pick-ups for critical blood requests available. 
• To request an urgent pick up please contact 027 243 1261

Laboratory Services:

• Life preserving services only      00:01 – 08:30 hours
• Critically urgent service only      08:30 – 23:59 hours
• Note: *From 08:30 – 15:30hrs some tests will only be available by using the life preserving service pathway.  Hospital clinicians will be able to send their critically urgent requests to the laboratory and the laboratory will advise the referrer for which tests LPS approval are needed.

Biochemistry and Haematology:

• Life preserving services only                  00:01 – 08:30 hours
• Critically urgent service only                  08:30 – 23:59 hours
• *As above for 08:30 – 15:30 hours

Transfusion Services:

• Life preserving services only                  00:01 – 08:30 hours
• Critically urgent service only                  08:30 – 23:59 hours
• *As above for 08:30 – 15:30 hours

Microbiology:

• Life preserving services only                  00:01 – 08:30 hours
• Critically urgent service only                  08:30 – 23:59 hours
• *As above for 08:30 – 15:30 hours
• Defer screening microbiology samples e.g. Seminal fertility testing  
• Consider empiric treatment where appropriate and only submit samples where results alter patient management. 
• Please note, results may be delayed for non-urgent/routine Microbiology tests (e.g. H. pylori, fungi)