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Most comprehensive test menu in the region with over 2,000 different tests. Accredited to ISO15189, ISO22870 (POCT) and AS/NZS-4308(2008) for workplace drug testing.
Provider of laboratory services to Canterbury DHB inpatients and outpatients as well as the Canterbury community.
Provider of reference testing to laboratories from Auckland in the north to McMurdo station in the Antarctic and esoteric testing throughout Australasia and the Asia Pacific region.
Provider of SurePath liquid based cytology
Provider of laboratory information systems to Taranaki DHB, Hawkes Bay DHB and Medlab South (Nelson Malborough).
First site in Asia Pacific to install the Abbott APS Workcell automated biochemistry system.
First hospital laboratory in Asia and Pacific to install Sysmex HTS Haematology track with Cellavision.
Contracted by the World Health Organisation as the National Measles Laboratory for New Zealand.
Commissioned by the Ministry of Health to install New Zealands first PC3 facility within a diagnostic laboratory.
Extensive global collaborations with industrial and academic partners for research and teaching.
Preferred provider for Christchurch Clinical Studies Trust for Phase I, II and III drug testing.
Only laboratory in New Zealand performing pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD).