The Trace Elements Laboratory, which was formerly part of Sandwell and City Hospitals NHS Trust, has had Supraregional Assay Service (SAS) designation since 1974, and is on the list of laboratories approved by the Health and Safety Executive for the occupational monitoring of lead and cadmium. We have a strong interest in heavy metals and provide analytical and clinical advisory services to the West Midlands Poisons Unit – a specialist level treatment unit, as well as to the Birmingham Unit of the National Poisons Information Service.
Our repertoire comprises a broad range of nutritional and toxic trace elements and bespoke analysis is undertaken where clinically relevant. Urgent turn-around can usually be accommodated, please contact the laboratory to discuss. Analysis is performed by state of the art inductively coupled mass spectrometry, and the laboratory is accredited under UKAS to ISO 15189 (clinical laboratory no. 8407). A full clinical advisory service is available.
Please get in touch if you would like any further information around our services.
Laboratory Director: Dr Nicola Barlow, Consultant Clinical Scientist
Website: http://bcpathology.org.uk/
Email: bcpspathology.info@nhs.net
Laboratory telephone (for urgent queries): 0121 5073517/3737