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Opening hours and services available
The department is open from 08:00 hrs – 17:00 hrs, Monday to Friday (except bank holidays) synovial fluid samples should be received in the department by 13:30 hrs in order to be processed the same day.
Find or contact us at the Manchester Cytology Centre
The Manchester Cytology Centre is located on the first floor of Clinical Sciences Building 2 at the Oxford Road Campus. All visitors must access the department via the reception area of Clinical Sciences Building 1.
Please also contact us if you have any complaints or service improvement suggestions.
If you wish to make a formal or informal complaint please contact the Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS).
Many verbal complaints will be easily and quickly resolved by the clinical lead, laboratory manager or a cyto/histopathologist and will be recorded by the department.
It is the discretion of the Laboratory Manager to forward any complaints on to the Division of Laboratory Medicine team for recording if appropriate.
Address
Manchester Cytology Centre
First Floor
Clinical Sciences Building 2
Manchester Royal Infirmary
Oxford Road
Manchester
M13 9WL
Email: cyto.pathology@mft.nhs.uk
Telephone enquiries
- General: 0161 276 5111. Fax: 0161 276 5113
- Synovial fluid cytology results: 0161 276 5115/5116/6727
- Advice on synovial fluid sample collection/comments, complaints or suggestions: 0161 276 5103/5118
- Request sample containers or forms: 0161 276 8817
Key contacts
Dr Mohsin Mazhari
Head of Synovial Fluid Analysis Service
0161 276 6444 mohsin.mazhari@mft.nhs.uk
Dr Miles Holbrook
Consultant Cytopathologist
0161 276 6475 miles.holbrook@mft.nhs.uk
Paul Hermansen
Consultant Biomedical Scientist
0161 276 5103 paul.hermansen@mft.nhs.uk
Peter Heptinstall
Consultant Biomedical Scientist
0161 276 5118 peter.heptinstall@mft.nhs.uk
Stephen Burrows
Consultant Biomedical Scientist
0161 701 0228 stephen.burrows@mft.nhs.uk
Sarah Ferris
Biomedical Scientist Team Leader
0161 276 5115 sarah.ferris@mft.nhs.uk
Bernadette Carden-Flynn
Office Manager
0161 276 5115 bernadette.carden-flynn@mft.nhs.uk
Helen Wilson
Medical Secretary
0161 276 6727 helen.wilson@mft.nhs.uk
Jennifer Bradburn
Medical and training school secretary
0161 276 8804 jennifer.bradburn@mft.nhs.uk
Rosebina Zafar
Non-Gynae Cytology Lead Biomedical Scientist
0161 276 5110 rosebina.zafar@mft.nhs.uk
Sally Wood
Cellular Pathology Manager
0161 276 6138 sally.wood@mft.nhs.uk
(Last reviewed January 2020)