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There are a number of factors involved in ensuring the correct result is obtained with any sample. Most of these are controlled in a number of ways by the laboratory itself but you as a patient can help by ensuring that if you are delivering a sample yourself that it has a fully completed request form with it and that your sample is properly and clearly labelled, that you follow any instructions given to you about preparing yourself for the test and by following any instructions given to you at the time of the test.

It will be quite rare for you to have to deliver a sample yourself to one of our hospitals as these are normally collected from GP surgeries. The exception to this is for semen samples which must be delivered to the pathology department at the Worcestershire Royal Hospital.

If you do need to deliver a sample to the laboratory they are situated: