http://www.darkdaily.com/auckland-hospital-laboratories-play-defined-role-in-supporting-patient-care-125#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed DARK Daily is a concise e-news/management briefing on timely topics in clinical laboratory and anatomic pathology group management. It is a solution to the dilemma facing anyone in the laboratory profession. Sun, 29 Jan 2012 05:41:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.darkdaily.com/auckland-hospital-laboratories-play-defined-role-in-supporting-patient-care-125/comment-page-1#comment-6805 Vanessa Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:12:30 +0000 http://www.darkdaily.com/?p=4054#comment-6805 I note with interest your article regarding pathology services in Middlemore and Auckland Hospital's. Had the author traveled outside the Auckland region, they would have found in the majority of the rest of New Zealand hospital laboratories providing services to the community and specialists outside of the hospital. A number of hospital laboratories are privately run (e.g. Palmerston North, Dunedin, Nelson, Blenheim, Gisborne) and at Hastings Hospital a joint partnership between the public hospital and private laboratory ensures the hospital laboratory performs 50% of the automated tests from the community and all of the histology. Auckland Hospitals are by far the exception to the rule, therefore highlighting the inaccuracy of your article stating "hospital laboratories in New Zealand tend to provide testing primarily for inpatients and for outpatients seen by specialists who practice within the hospital’s facilities." I note with interest your article regarding pathology services in Middlemore and Auckland Hospital’s. Had the author traveled outside the Auckland region, they would have found in the majority of the rest of New Zealand hospital laboratories providing services to the community and specialists outside of the hospital. A number of hospital laboratories are privately run (e.g. Palmerston North, Dunedin, Nelson, Blenheim, Gisborne) and at Hastings Hospital a joint partnership between the public hospital and private laboratory ensures the hospital laboratory performs 50% of the automated tests from the community and all of the histology. Auckland Hospitals are by far the exception to the rule, therefore highlighting the inaccuracy of your article stating “hospital laboratories in New Zealand tend to provide testing primarily for inpatients and for outpatients seen by specialists who practice within the hospital’s facilities.”

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