All laboratories are UKAS accredited to ISO15189 standards and are staffed with experienced and knowledgeable registered biomedical/clinical scientists, healthcare scientist associate practitioners and biomedical support workers.
The main NHS Lothian hospital sites are:
- Royal Infirmary Edinburgh (RIE)
- Western General Hospital (WGH)
- St. John’s Hospital (SJH)
- Royal Hospital for Children and Young People (RHCYP)
Within NHS Lothian's Department of Laboratory Medicine includes:
- Haematology
- Biochemistry
- Immunology
- Serology
- Pathology
- Microbiology
- Molecular genetics
- Molecular Pathology