Sample Collection Services

Client Services Section, Department of Pathology, is the Collection/Reception Centre for samples sent from Singapore General Hospital, other hospitals, clinics, laboratories, organisations and other countries.

Client Services Section, Department of Pathology

Location	#01-15, Pathology Building
Tel	6321 4950 / 6321 4952 / 6321 4904 / 6321 3727 / 6326 5454 / 6326 5306 6326 5353 (for private medical practitioners only)
Fax	6222 8924

Singapore General Hospital

Samples from Singapore General Hospital should be despatched to the telelift or pneumatic tube stations as follows:

	Send to:
Samples for haematological, blood transfusion and only blood samples for cytogenetic test	Telelift Station 65 or Pneumatic Tube Station 654 & 655, SGH, Block 6, Level 5
Samples for routine clinical chemistry investigations	Telelift Station 65 or Pneumatic Tube Station 652, 653 SGH Block 6, level 5
All other samples EXCEPT Histopathology & Cytopathology specimen, and samples for virus isolation	Telelift Station 92 or Pneumatic Tube Station 901, SGH, Department of Pathology

The following samples should not be sent by telelift:

1. Prenatal, bone marrow samples and solid non-neoplastic and neoplastic tumours for cytogenetic tests should be sent by hand to the Cytogenetics Lab
2. Stat/Emergency samples*
3. All samples for virus isolation*
4. CSF for Cytology examinations should be sent by hand to the Cytology Laboratory as soon as possible
5. All specimens for histopathology examinations. Please see ‘Sample Collection Services’ in Histopathology section for details

* These samples should be sent by hand after consultation with laboratory personnel, who will specify the place and person the samples should be sent to, so that they will be delivered to the appropriate laboratory.

Other Hospitals

 
Samples from other hospitals are collected according to the following Transport schedule:
 

Destination	Collection Site	Days and times of collection
		Monday - Friday		Saturday
		Mornings	Afternoons	Mornings
NSC	Clinical Lab Level 2	-	2.45 pm	-
TTSH	Clinical Lab	10.30 am	3.30 pm	10.30 am
CGH	Clinical Lab	10.40 am	2.40 pm	10.40 am
Bright Vision Hospital	Reception Level 1	-	3.15 pm	11.15 am

Private medical practitioners may collect their patients’ samples and send them for testing to the nearest SingHealth polyclinic laboratory managed by the Department of Pathology. Alternatively, they may send their patients with the request forms to any of these polyclinic laboratories for samples to be taken by our technical staff.

Please refer to “Locations of Laboratories” for the names and addresses of polyclinic laboratories run by the Department of Pathology.