John Mortimer is the Laboratory Manager of the Special Biochemistry Laboratory which is part of the UHL Pathology Clinical Business Unit, based at Leicester Royal Infirmary.
John's laboratory provides analytical and diagnostic services to the three hospital sites in Leicester, the community hospitals as well as Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) and GPs in Leicestershire. The lab is fully CPA accredited and as well as performing routine clinical work, it also gets involved with clinical trials and forensic toxicology for coroners and the police.
In the summer of 2010, the laboratories workload for vitamin D measurements had risen to a point where the lab was losing the battle to keep pace with the samples submitted. The analysis is performed by LC-tandem MS, which is pretty quick...
