Microbiology

Microbiology is based in The Dorset Pathology Hub at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital.

Contacts

Laboratory Enquiries 0300 019 4844

Clinical Advice 0300 019 4849/8129

Laboratory opening hours

• Monday to Friday:  8am-9pm

• Saturday and Sunday: 8am-4.30pm

Clinical advice

This is available Monday-Friday between 9am-5pm by telephoning the Consultant Microbiologists during core-hours and Microbiology consultant clinical advice is available from 5pm-9am via switchboard.

Please provide the patient’s name  and your name and contact details to when logging your clinical query to Microbiology department.

When phoning for clinical advice please ensure your familiarity with the patient and their medical history, including observations and clinical findings, inflammatory indices, other relevant results and details of any past antibiotic therapy and relevant microbiology results.

Measurement of Uncertainty

There are estimates available for users on request (quantitative methods), please contact the department manager if needed.

Specimen Referrals

The nature of Microbiology is that additional tests are often required to confirm the presence of a pathogen which can add delay to a final result. Where useful information is available, an interim report will always be issued to keep users up to date.