GP sites please use this form

UHNM departments please use this form

Anticoagulation Management Team for appointments/queries:

UHNM    01782 (6)74252 
(messages can be left on answerphone)  

 Anticoagulation.uhns@nhs.net 

 
Leighton Hospital    01270 (27)3285    Anticoag.office@mcht.nhs.uk 
Macclesfield Hospital    01625 (66)1185    Ecn-tr.anticoag@nhs.net 

Anticoagulation Nurse Specialists:

UHNM only    07623604843

This is manned Monday – Friday 9-4pm.  Weekends and Bank Holidays 8:30-11am. 

New ward referrals emailed before 13:00 Monday – Friday will be contacted by the ANS the same day.  After this time, it will be the following working day.

The Royal Stoke Laboratory is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, including bank holidays.  Laboratory core hours are 8:00am – 8:00pm Monday to Friday.  Outside core hours, services are limited to urgent work only.

The County Hospital Laboratory is open 6:30am – 11:15pm, 7 days a week.  It provides a limited repertoire of essential tests for ward and outpatient activity on the County Hospital site.  After midnight, samples are transported to the Royal Stoke Laboratory for analysis.

The Leighton Hospital Laboratory core hours are 9:00am – 5:00pm, 7 days a week.  Outside core hours, services are limited to urgent work only.

The Macclesfield Hospital Laboratory core hours are 9:00am – 5:30pm, 7 days a week.  Outside core hours, services are limited to urgent work only.

Please use the following numbers to contact the Department:

If you are a patient who requires test results, please contact your GP surgery or the requesting clinician.

The department is not able to give results directly to patients.

Routine hours

• Royal Stoke Blood Transfusion Laboratory: 01782 (6)74950
• County Blood Transfusion Laboratory: 01785 257731 x4757

Outside routine hours

• Royal Stoke: Bleep Biomedical Scientist on 390
• County: Bleep Biomedical Scientist on 4751 (laboratory open between 06:00 and midnight)

Major Haemorrhage procedure activation (24/7)

• Royal Stoke: Bleep Biomedical Scientist on 175
• County: Bleep Biomedical Scientist on 4751

Main Departmental Address

Department of Haematology and Blood Transfusion,Royal Stoke University Hospital
Main Building Floor 2
Newcastle Road,
Stoke on Trent
ST4 6QG

Satellite Departmental Address

Essential Services LaboratoryCounty Hospital
Weston Road
Stafford
ST16 3SA

Telephone numbers – Royal Stoke University Hospital site

Telephone numbers – County Hospital site

Main Departmental Address

Department of Histopathology,
Royal Stoke University Hospital,
Main Building Floor 2,
Newcastle Road,
Stoke on Trent,
ST4 6QG

Telephone numbers – Royal Stoke University Hospital site

Royal Stoke Mortuaries and Post Mortem Room

Opening hours:

• Monday to Friday
• Office (reports) 08:00 to 17:30
• Histology Laboratory 09:00 to 17:30
• Mortuary 08:00 to 16:00

Saturday and Sunday

All departments listed above are closed at weekends.

Outside Normal Working Hours:
There is no on-call service available for the Histology service.

The laboratory is open Monday-Friday 09.00-17.30. Dr Goddard is available at variable times throughout the week.

Main Departmental Address

Department of Microbiology
Royal Stoke University Hospital
Main Building Floor 2
Newcastle Road,
Stoke on Trent
ST4 6QG

Telephone numbers – Royal Stoke University Hospital site

Main Departmental Address

Virology/Molecular Microbiology
Royal Stoke University Hospital
Main Building Floor 2
Newcastle Road,
Stoke on Trent
ST4 6QG

Telephone numbers – Royal Stoke University Hospital site

For further details including laboratory operating times see Core Services, Microbiology, including Bacteriology, Virology and Molecular Microbiology services. 

To book phlebotomy appointments in the community please phone 01782 674242 (Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm) or book online via https://patientconnect.uhnm.nhs.uk 

Phlebotomy Manager:

UHNM    01782 (6)74224
Leighton & Macclesfield Hospital    01270 273592

Main Departmental Address

Department Point of Care Testing,
Royal Stoke University Hospital
Main Building Floor 2
Newcastle Road,
Stoke on Trent
ST4 6QG

Satellite Departmental Address

Essential Services Laboratory
County Hospital
Weston Road
Stafford
ST16 3SA

Telephone numbers – Royal Stoke University Hospital site

Telephone numbers – County Hospital site

Email – poct@uhnm.nhs.uk

We always take complaints seriously.  If things have gone wrong, we want to ensure we learn from them so that mistakes are not repeated in the future.

UHNM Pathology comply with the Trust's complaints policy; more information can be found here