Laboratory Sites and Contact Details
Glasgow Royal Infirmary (GRI)
The laboratory is located in the MacEwen Building on Alexandra Parade (adjacent to A and E). It provides routine service Monday to Friday between 9.00am and 5.00pm and on Saturday between 9.00am and 12.00pm. An emergency service operates at all times.
Gartnavel General Hospital (GGH)
The main laboratory is at GGH (in the Laboratory Block of the GGH Complex). This laboratory provides routine and emergency services Monday to Friday between 9.00am and 5.00pm. Between 5.00pm and 7.30pm samples can be sent via the pneumatic tube system, these will be diverted to the porter’s room and sent regularly to GRI for analysis. This service stops at 7.30pm, all samples collected after this time should be sent via taxi to the laboratories at GRI. This taxi should be organised locally at ward level. Any samples sent in the pneumatic tube system after 7.30pm may remain un-analysed until the next day.
New Stobhill Hospital
A small satellite laboratory is located on Level 1 and operates Monday to Friday between 9.00am and 5.00pm.
Enquiries (9.00am until 5.00pm)
There is a central reporting office located at GRI which covers the three North Glasgow laboratory sites.
Duty Biochemist/General Enquiries 0141 242 9500 (x.29500)
Enquiries (Out of Hours)
Contact the on-call biochemist via switchboard 0141 211 4000
Emergency Laboratories (24/7)
Glasgow Royal Infirmary call 0141 211 4487 (x.24487)
Accreditation and Quality
Thank you for continuing to send samples to the Biochemistry Department at Glasgow Royal Infirmary. In April 2025 we had a UKAS inspection to assess compliance to ISO15189. This assessment highlighted known deficiencies in the processing of external quality assessment (EQA) samples. While all analytes remained registered with an EQA provider, factors out with our control led to gaps in result reporting and review. In response to these gaps UKAS are suspending our accreditation for a subset of analytes until July 2025. A comprehensive list of affected analytes is listed within the letter to users.
As a department we are working hard to retrospectively review any outstanding EQA and fully expect accreditation for all effected assays to be reinstated in July. Service users will not experience any changes to the routine operations of the department during this period.
Laboratory Handbooks
Forms
During periods of Trakcare downtime, Biochemistry requests must be made on paper request forms. The paper request form should also be used for add on requests. Request forms can be ordered through PECOS, however a pdf copy of the Biochemistry is available for download and printing.