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The department regularly receives requests for expert/second opinion from other hospitals within and outside the UK. Similarly, the department also refers cases to other services for expert opinion, diagnostic services and in response to service pressures. The following are the most commonly used.
| Type | Address |
| Reporting/Vacancy cover | LDPath
NHS Department, 6 St Johns Place, London EC1M 4NP |
| Genetics, CNS tumour DNA | Genomic Diagnostics Laboratory
Manchester Centre for Genomic Medicine 6th Floor, St Mary’s Hospital, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9WL |
| Mitochondrial Studies Muscle | Wellcome Trust Centre for Mitochondrial Research
Newcastle Mitochondrial NSCAG Diagnostic Laboratory University of Newcastle |
| Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophies | NCG Limb-Girdle MD Referral Centre
Muscle Immunoanalysis Unit Dental Hospital Lower Ground Floor Richardson Road Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4AZ |
| Lymphomas – HODS | Christie Hospital |
| Cytogenetics, Second Opinion | Christie Hospital |
| Metabolic Bone | Sheffield Teaching Hospitals
Department of Histopathology, E Floor, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Glossop Road Sheffield S10 2JF |
(Last updated May 2023)