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Contact the Microbiology Department

Microbiology Laboratory
John Radcliffe Hospital
Headley Way
Headington
Oxford OX3 9DU
General enquiries (Healthcare professionals only): +44 (0) 1865 221918
Clinical enquiries (Healthcare professionals only): +44 (0) 300 304 7777 bleep 4077

Opening hours

The Laboratory is open 24/7 365 days a year.

Core opening hours are 8.30am - 5.00pm
Late shift 1.30pm - 10.00pm: nightshift 10.00pm - 8.30am
Outside of core hours please contact the laboratory via OUH Switchboard: +44 (0) 300 304 7777

For enquiries about our Microbiology service, or feedback on the content in this section, please email microbiology.advice.ouh@nhs.net.

Microbiology is on Level 7 of the John Radcliffe Hospital.

From the main entrance on Level 2 of the John Radcliffe Hospital, walk down the corridor and take the central lifts to Level 7.
On leaving the lift look for the Microbiology sign (on the corridor that has no wards).
Walk to the end of this corridor, where there is a hatch.
Please ring the bell and someone will assist you.

Oxfordshire GPs can contact the Microbiology medical staff for clinical advice.

Please include the following information as appropriate (please note confidential patient information should only be sent from nhs.net accounts).

We are always looking for opportunities to improve and update our service, and to learn from experience.

Please get in touch and let us know if you have had any problems working with the Microbiology Laboratory.

All issues are logged and investigated by a senior member of laboratory staff in order to improve our processes in future.

If you need to get in touch with us regarding a complaint, you can do this via the Patient Advice and Liason Service.

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