General FAQs

The following aim to provide answers to General Frequently Asked Questions. If you have any further questions, please call 0508 LABTESTS (0508 522 837), or Contact Us.

Is Labtests the largest provider of community pathology services in the Auckland region?	Who is Healthscope?
Where are Labtests collection centres located?	Where is Labtests' laboratory?
How many staff does Labtests employ?

Is Labtests the largest provider of community pathology services in the Auckland region?

Yes. Labtests is responsible for 90% of all testing across the Auckland region. Labtests provides the community pathology services for all GP's, Public Hospital Clinics and Midwives across the Auckland region.

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Who is Healthscope?

Healthscope, Labtests’ parent company, is a leading international healthcare provider headquartered in Melbourne. When Labtests takes up its Auckland contract in September 2009, Healthscope will be New Zealand’s largest private pathology provider.

Healthscope’s extensive network includes laboratories across Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and Malaysia. The Healthscope network in New Zealand includes 11 Southern Community Laboratories around the country and Northland Pathology, which provides services to the Northland region.

Healthscope employs 18,000 staff around the world.

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Where are Labtests collection centres located?

We have done a great deal of research into the best locations for collection centres across the Auckland region. This has involved sophisticated population mapping and analysis of data including census figures, health deprivation scores, age demographics, locations of doctors’ practices, healthcare centres and town centres, and driving distances and access to public transport networks.

The result is a carefully planned network of 56 collection centres, located to improve equality of access across areas of greater and lesser need. View our Collection Centres network.

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Where is Labtests' laboratory?

Testing will be carried out at our brand-new state-of-the-art laboratory at 37 Carbine Road, Mt Wellington.

Our 5500 sqm laboratory facility is in the top 5% of the world's most automated and technically advanced labs, allowing us to deliver the most complete, accurate and timely results to doctors.

Like all Healthscope’s medical laboratories in New Zealand, the Labtests laboratory will be accredited by International Accreditation New Zealand (IANZ). IANZ is the accreditation body for all medical laboratories in New Zealand.

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How many staff does Labtests employ?

Healthscope is New Zealand’s largest community pathology employer with a over 1400 staff nationwide and an international network of over 4,000 pathology staff. Around 700 staff work for Labtests in either the Carbine Road core laboratory or across the Auckland collection centre network.

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