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