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Canterbury Laboratory Services Consultation

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After engagement across the sector, clinical leadership from the Labs Service Level Alliance (SLA) and a formal Request for Proposal process, Southern Community Laboratories has been awarded the contract to partner Canterbury Health Laboratories to deliver an integrated laboratory service in Canterbury, with effect from April 1, 2012. Medlab South will continue to provide their normal services from their Christchurch base until the end of March.
 
For more information view the CDHB media release here.

Did You Know?

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If we consider that 1-2% of samples are misidentified, from the wrong patient (Med J Aust 1996; 165:128-130), and that New Zealand spends $500 million per year on pathology testing, then that's at least $5 to $10 million per year wasted, even if the wrong tests have no consequence.
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