ACT Pathology provides services and advice to clinicians across the ACT.
Our ACT Pathology Customer Liaison Team is available on (02) 5124 2932 from 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday. You can call the team to discuss all service delivery issues, including reporting delivery, courier services, patient billing and collection centres. We offer different reporting options to meet the individual needs of our clients. This includes an extensive courier service that delivers reports to doctor’s surgeries across Canberra.
You can also contact our Collection Centres directly.
If you are a patient looking for information on our pathology services, please see our page on pathology.
Result delivery
Electronic result delivery
ACT Pathology can provide direct and secure pathology results services that use practice management software, such as Medical Director, Medtech 32, Medical Spectrum, Intrahealth and Genie. Results are downloaded in PIT or HL7 formats for external clients. You can access this service on both PC and Apple computers using HealthLink software.
To apply for HealthLink use the online application form or phone the ACT Pathology Customer Liaison Team on (02) 5124 2932 between 9am and 5pm, Monday to Friday.
We can also automatically fax pathology results to services as soon as they are authorised. You can use auto fax for specific tests or for all results. Additional hard copies can be requested.
To establish automatic faxing contact our Customer Liaison Officer on (02) 5124 3367. Practices will need to provide a fax number to receive this service.
Hard copy result delivery
Referring practitioners can choose to receive standard A4 reports or a modified A4 report with a perforation to reduce the size to A5.
Reporting features include:
- abnormalities highlighted in bold
- cumulative reporting of up to five patient episodes
- provision of intelligent personalised comments using a Laboratory intelligent Decision Support (LiDS) program
Please contact our Customer Liaison Officer on (02) 5124 3367 to set up your preferences.
Forms
Request forms
The ACT Pathology Request form [PDF 369kB] can be used to order routine pathology tests.
Pads of request forms, either A5 or A4, can be supplied by contacting (02) 5124 3367.
Somatic Mutation testing
The [PDF 182kB] can be used for ordering Somatic Mutation tests such as EGFR, KRAS and BRAF, on tissue samples processed at ACT Pathology.
Please send your completed form to:
- Phone: (02) 5124 2867
- Email: molecular@act.gov.au
- Fax: (02) 5124 2892
- Address: Anatomical Pathology, ACT Pathology, Po Box 11 Woden ACT 2606
Other forms
Test reference manual
Welcome to ACT Pathology’s test reference manual.
You can filter, sort and search test names in column A.
If you can’t find the test you are looking for, please contact our Customer Services team for help. The team is available from 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday:
- Phone: (02) 5124 3367
- Email: actpathology@act.gov.au
Clinician information sheets
- 5HIAA and Catecholamines by HPLC [PDF 41kB]
- A Guide to Rule 3 Exemptions [PDF 94kB]
- Antenatal (serological) Testing Guidelines [PDF 61kB]
- Billing of internationally referred tests [PDF 88kB]
- Billing of Tests Non-Refundable by Medicare [PDF 90kB]
- CADASIL - Skin Biopsy [PDF 91kB]
- Calvary Hospice Transfusions [PDF 99kB]
- Clinician Collected Cervical Screening Test [PDF 121kB]
- Diagnostic Genomics [PDF 101kB]
- Dos and Don'ts in Pathology [PDF 239kB]
- Factor V Leiden and Factor II (Prothrombin) mutation testing [PDF 48kB]
- First Trimester Screen [PDF 91kB]
- Flebogamma Fact Sheet [PDF 56kB]
- Homocysteine Levels [PDF 94kB]
- Instructions for Performing the Oral Glucose Tolerance Test [PDF 48kB]
- Investigation of Bleeding Disorders [PDF 92kB]
- Investigation of Thrombophilia [PDF 116kB]
- Meningococcal Testing [PDF 92kB]
- Muscle and Nerve Biopsy [PDF 132kB]
- National Cervical Screening [PDF 142kB]
- Patient Identification Specimen Labelling [PDF 134kB]
- Reducing Substances in Faeces or Urine [PDF 102kB]
- Renal Biopsy Collection [PDF 106kB]
- Self-Collect HPV Program [PDF 51kB]
- Thalassaemia and Haemoglobin Varient Testing [PDF 49kB]
- Transfusion Sample Storage Times [PDF 98kB]
- Tumour Markers [PDF 45kB]
- Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus [PDF 160kB]
- Urine Transport [PDF 46kB]
- What is Pathology [PDF 73kB]
Contact ACT Pathology
General numbers
- Doctors Results (24 Hours) – (02) 5124 2930
- Enquiry Line and Customer Service – (02) 5124 2932
- Accounts Enquiries – (02) 5124 8700
- Pathology IT Systems Support – (02) 5124 2826
North Canberra Hospital Laboratory
- Specimen Reception / Results - (02) 5124 2792
- General - actpathology@act.gov.au
- Accounts - pathology.accounts@act.gov.au
- Referrals – actpathologyreferrals@act.gov.au
Fax numbers
- General Enquiries - (02) 5124 2812
- Results - (02) 5124 2962