Haematology and Blood Transfusion (GP information)

The department provides its users with a huge range of tests. The most common include:

• Full Blood Counts (FBC)
• Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate (ESR)
• Sickle screening
• Glandular Fever screening
• Malarial parasite screening
• Blood Film reviews
• Routine clotting screens
• INR (warfarin monitoring)
• APTT ratios (heparin monitoring)
• Haemostatic investigations e.g. thrombophilia screens, factor assays. (by arrangement)
• Haemoglobin electrophoresis
• Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) assays
• Special Haematology assays e.g pyruvate kinase, oxygen dissocation assays (by arrangement)
• Cytogenetic investigations of haematological abnormalities including leukaemia and lymphoma (by arrangement)
• Flow cytometry and cytochemisty for the identification of haematological abnormalities including leukaemia and lymphoma (by arrangement)
• Lymphocyte subset counts (CD4, CD8 counts) (by arrangement)
• Blood grouping, antibody screening and cross-matching of blood

• General Haematology (new and follow-up)
• 2 week wait cancer clinic (including Choose and Book)
• Joint Oncology Clinic (lymphoma/myeloma) with Professor P Hoskin
• Bone marrow biopsy clinic
• Anticoagulant
• Thrombosis Clinic
• Haemostasis
• Obstetric Haematology
• Paediatric Haematology (shared with Consultant Paediatrician – Dr Toyin Lythe)