Cellular pathology

Cellular pathology is the microscopic analysis of patient tissue samples to look for the presence/absence of disease. We provide services for routine histopathology, cytopathology and frozen sections.

Results

You will obtain your result from a hospital clinician or GP who is responsible for your procedure, we ask patients kindly not to contact cellular pathology for results.

Colleagues within cellular pathology are dedicated to ensuring that patients receive results not only in a timely manner, but also that you receive a diagnosis with covers all aspects of quality. Between April 2023 and March 2024, the laboratory achieved the following average turnaround time:

• 68.5% of urgent biopsies were reported within seven days of receipt.
• 90% of cancer resection cases were reported withing 14 days of receipt.
• 42% of non-urgent samples were reported within 28 days of receipt.

For the most up to date turnaround times please speak to the clinician performing your procedure.

General practice staff and NHS staff service users who require more information and can’t access the pathology handbook via an NHS computer can request the Cellular Pathology handbook by emailing Histology@wsh.nhs.uk