Advia Labcell from Siemens Healthcare has enabled the Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust to automate its Pathology Laboratory, increasing its efficiency and capacity.
The fully automated Blood Sciences Laboratory was opened at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Kings Lynn NHS Foundation Trust by Sir Keith Pearson, chair of the NHS Confederation.
The laboratory redesign combines haematology and biochemistry analytical testing onto a single Advia Labcell from Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics.
Although haematology and chemistry disciplines have worked side by side in the same laboratory at the hospital for many years, this is the first time that all work has been consolidated onto a single Blood Sciences automated system.
The automated robotic system links a number of analysers together via a central track to streamline the workflow of the lab.
The automated track and analysers have trebled the lab workload capacity, thus future-proofing a service that provides vital and quick diagnostic turnaround for the AandE and theatres.
The automated Blood Sciences laboratory will help the hospital to maintain high-quality service delivery to its patients within the hospital and the wider community through GP practices serving the West Norfolk, South Lincolnshire and North East Cambridgeshire.
The Advia Labcell from Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics integrates two Advia 2400 Chemistry systems, two Advia Centaur XP Immunoassay systems and two Advia 2120i Haematology systems onto the track, with two sample managers and two Advia Automation Centrifuge CXL Modules.
