Turnaround times

Update March 2025: Apologies but due to staff shortages there are currently significant delays in processing samples for vitamin analysis. It is not possible to estimate how long it will take for results to be available but we are working hard to analyse samples as quickly as possible. For any results that are required for particularly urgent patient management decisions please contact the lab.

Turnaround times are calculated from the time of receipt of sample to the time that result is available to be emailed, posted or accessed electronically by SCIStore. Target turnaround times are shown in the table below. In practice, our actual turnaround times are usually far better than this and so the average turnaround times for individual analytes are recorded in the tables found on each analyte's webpage. On occasions, clinical cases of toxic trace element poisonings require a faster turnaround time to optimise patient management. In such circumstances, please phone and we can usually arrange for our analytical runs to be reorganised to expedite analysis.