The blood-science lab at the University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust has introduced 13 serology assays onto its Roche Modular SWA platform, allowing it to offer a 24/7 serology service.
As a leading organ and bone-marrow transplant centre, this enables the laboratory to perform critical emergency transplant serology tests without the need for staff call out.
The main blood-science laboratory for the trust is located at Selly Oak Hospital, with the microbiology department and a satellite biochemistry laboratory on a different site at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
In the past, serology assays were performed in the microbiology department on a standalone instrument.
Test were batched and performed during the working hours of the microbiology laboratory.
Emergency transplant serology tests were provided on an on-call basis.
Recently, in preparation for the opening of the trust's new Queen Elizabeth Hospital, the working processes for pathology were reviewed.
The Roche assays that have been consolidated onto the Roche Modular platform at Selly Oak include Hepatitis A assays (AntiHAV and Anti-HAV IgM), Hepatitis B assays (HBsAg II, Anti-HBs, Anti-HBc, Anti-HBc IgM, HBeAg and Anti-Hbe), Hepatitis C assay (Anti-HCV), HIV combi and TORCH assays (Rubella IgG, Toxo IgG and CMV IgG).
Roche serology assays are rapid and reliable, offering flexibility on all Roche immunodiagnostic testing platforms.
