Diabetic Clinic at King's College Hospital

Laboratory Overview

The Diabetic Clinic laboratory at King's College Hospital is based on the Ground Floor, Venetian Building, Caldecot Road, SE5 9RS

Our service has two dimensions:

• The laboratory analyses all Hba1c samples referred to King's College Hospital. We use a boronate affinity chromatography method which is unaffected by the majority of haemoglobin variants enabling clinicians to use Hba1c for Diabetic patient monitoring.
• We provide a capillary blood collection for Diabetic patients attending Diabetic Clinic to enable their clinicians to have immediate access to their Hba1c and Glucose results. In addition to this each patient has a urinalysis screen to check for Glucose, Ketones, Protein and signs of infection.