Results & Queries

This page contains information regarding test results from Laboratory Services & Consultations Ltd.

Results – Methods & Times of Reporting

  • Routine results generated by the laboratory are signed out and issued within 24 hours
  • Click here to see the turn around times of the various tests
  • A test result can be issued via the phone to the requesting physician or the nursing unit pending the submission of a written report
    • Results are not issued to patients via telephone
    • The person receiving such a report must be clearly identified
  • HIV results are not issued via telephone
  • All critical / panic results are urgently reported to the requesting physician or the nursing unit or anyone responsible for that particular patient
    • The call out time and person to which the results were called out to will be typed into the report
  • For copies of results, users of the laboratory can contact the Specimen Collection Department or the various laboratory departments responsible for generating the results
  • Patients coming to the lab for results must present proper identification