Pathology

Contact details

Telephone: 01604 545402

Opening hours are 9.00 – 17.30 Monday to Friday

How to find us

Pathology reception is located on Hospital Street in Area G on the hospital map. The nearest parking areas are Car Parks 4 and 5 (or 2 after 3.00pm). Limited disabled parking is available.

Click here for the hospital map

The pathology department provides patient-care diagnostic and testing facilities for Northampton General Hospital and the local community general practitioners.

Principal services

Blood Sciences (Haematology, Blood Transfusion, Biochemistry, Immunology)
Microbiology
Cellular Pathology (Histopathology, Non-Gynae Cytology)
Phlebotomy
Mortuary

Blood Taking Unit

Please see the Blood Taking Unit page for details of our service.

Mortuary

The department is also responsible for providing the public mortuary service for South Northamptonshire and autopsy facilities for HM Coroner.

Handbook

Click here to download a copy of the Pathology Handbook, a document that provides an outline of the services offered by Pathology.

Feedback

Compliments, comments, complaints, concerns and suggestions from patients and users are encouraged. We follow the Trust policy for the Management of Comments, Concerns, Complaints and Compliments, please follow the link for more detail (Concerns and complaints (northamptongeneral.nhs.uk)). However, if you have any feedback that doesn’t fall into this category and you would like to contact the laboratory directly, please follow the link.