Clinical Biochemistry Laboratory – Change in method for Alanine Aminotransferase (ALT)

Changes to lipid profile reporting in Clinical Biochemistry

Low density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol is a calculated test result field on lipid profiles reported in the Clinical Biochemistry department. This test field is used in the assessment of cardiovascular risk.

Clinical Biochemistry – Updates to Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) ranges

24-hour urine collections for metanephrine analysis

From Monday 29 September, 24-hour urine collections for metanephrine analysis will be collected into bottles without an acid preservative. This preservative has previously been used to stabilise urine metanephrines in the sample, but urine metanephrines have been shown to be stable both with and without the preservative.

Changes to Clinical Biochemistry service

From Monday 28th October the Clinical Biochemistry service will be implementing the following changes:

Tests centralised to Peterborough City Hospital site

The following tests will be processed only at the Peterborough City Hospital site (and as such no longer processed at the Hinchingbrooke Hospital site):

•Vitamin D

Pathology Project Team
Email: nwangliaft.limsproject@nhs.net