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laboratory index> United Bristol Healthcare NHS Trust
United Bristol Healthcare NHS Trust
Address
Bristol Royal Infirmary
Marlborough Street
Bristol BS 2 8HW
Tel: 0117 929 0666
The Hospitals
The United Bristol Healthcare NHS Trust comprises nine hospital sites with a total of 1130 beds. The Bristol Royal Infirmary houses the acute medicine, surgery, orthopaedics and critical care services; obstetrics, gynaecology and ENT are based at St Michaels and The Bristol Children’s Hospital is the only dedicated children’s hospital within the region. The other hospitals include The Eye Hospital, Homeopathics, The Haematology and Oncology Centre, Bristol General, Keynsham and the Dental Hospital.
The Laboratory
The laboratory operates a full service Monday to Friday 9-5.30 and otherwise an out-of hours service with on-call consultant cover.
Equipment
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Automation: |
Olympus AU600 + AU2700, 2x Immulite 2000, 2x Beckman Access |
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Special Techniques: |
HPLC, amino acids, organic acids, Regional Enzyme lab
(lysosomal storage disorders) and other miscellaneous investigations |
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Immunochemistry: |
electrophoresis, specific proteins, immunoassays, immunology |
Specialist Assays
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Catecholamines, HVA, VMA, 5-HIAA, homocysteine, vitamins A + E. |
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Caeruloplasmin, transferring, a-1 antitrypsin (and phenotpye), haptoglobin, a-1 acid glycoprotein, complement, coeliac serology. |
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Extensive range of investigations for lysosomal storage disorders and other inborn errors of metabolism. See the metabolic assay directory on www.metbio.net for details |
Staffing
17x BMS staff
| Consultant Medical Biochemists |
Dr David Stansbie (Head of Department)
0117 928 2592 |
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Dr Graham Bayly
0117 928 2853 |
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Dr Andrew Day
0117 928 4543 |
| Specialist Registrar |
Dr Wolfram Woltersdorf
0117 928 2392 |
| Consultant Clinical Biochemist |
Dr Paul Thomas
(endocrinology, toxicology, audit)
0117 928 2828 |
| Consultant Immunologist |
Dr Mark Gompels
(based at Southmead Immunology Dept) |
| Principal Clinical Biochemists |
Ann Bowron
(Paediatrics and inborn errors of metabolism)
0117 928 2590 |
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Dr Janet Stone
(Head of Lysosomal Storage disorders lab)
0117 928 2590
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| Senior Clinical Biochemists |
Maryam Khan
(Paediatric Higher Specialist Trainee)
0117 928 2590 |
| Trainee Clinical Biochemists |
Anna Marden
0117 928 2840 |
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Dr Tim Thorpe
0117 928 2840
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Local audits
Continuous programme of audit, contact Paul Thomas for details.
An up-to-date list of on-going and completed audits is available on the Trust web-site: www.ubht.nhs.uk/ClinicalAudit
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