Routine Coagulation Laboratory at King's College Hospital

Laboratory overview

Our laboratory, led by Dr. Roopen Arya, provides both clinical and laboratory support to this busy teaching hospital.

We provide a wide range of coagulation tests including routine coagulation studies, factor assays, testing for lupus anticoagulant and inhibitors, platelet function tests and thrombophilia work-up. Recent additions to the research laboratory include thromboelastography and thrombin generation assays.

King's has been a Haemophilia Centre for over two decades.

Routine coagulation laboratory is a UKAS accredited medical laboratory (No 9092), accredited to ISO15189:2022 for the tests listed in the schedule of accreditation on the UKAS website http://https://www.ukas.com/wp-content/uploads/schedule_uploads/00007/9092-Medical-Single.pdf

Key features

We offer:   

• Genetic counselling and prenatal diagnosis in conjunction with Professor Nicolaides at the Foetal Medicine Unit.
• A large Anticoagulant Clinic with over 1,300 'active' patients.
• A nurse-led outpatient DVT service and early-discharge PE service.  
• Expertise in thromboprophylaxis for both medical and surgical patients  
• The diagnosis and management of thrombophilia in close collaboration with several units especially obstetrics, neurology and hepatology.
• Facilities for full phenotypic and genetic thrombophilia screening including DNA analysis for Factor V Leiden, prothrombin and MTHFR polymorphisms.See attachment below for our most up to date test repertoire

For full accreditation details and access to the Haematology User Handbook, please refer to the Blackfriars Hub Haematology page.