NCSP Register Laboratory Result Processing

Smear test results will continue to be accepted by the NCSP in the existing flat file formats until 1 July 2009.

The current processing sites for smear test results are as follows:

Hutt Valley DHB for:

• Auckland LabPlus
• Diagnostic Medlab (DML)
• Aotea Pathology

NCSP Register Team
Level 3 Pilmuir House
Hutt Valley District Health Board
Lower Hutt
Free phone: 0800 50 60 50

Register Central Team, National Screening Unit for:

• Canterbury Health Laboratories
• Medlab Central
• Medlab South
• Medlab Bay of Plenty
• Southern Community Laboratories, Christchurch
• Southern Community Laboratories, Dunedin
• All other laboratories not already covered above

NCSP Register Central Team
PO Box 5895
Lambton Quay
Wellington 6145
Free phone: 0800 50 60 50
Fax: (04) 816 2422
E-mail: NCSP-RCT@moh.govt.nz

These arrangements will remain in place until further notice. Please continue to send smear test results to your current processing site.

Access to Online Screening Histories

Laboratories that currently access screening histories online can continue to do so. Please note that existing digital security certificates remain valid. However, the URL for accessing screening histories has changed. Instructions were mailed to all cytology laboratories on Wednesday, 27 August 2008.  Please contact Michael Peters (Michael_peters@moh.govt.nz, or 0800 50 60 50) for further copies of these instructions.

Those laboratories not already accessing the register online are strongly encouraged to do so. Resources for online data services can be accessed from the following links:

New Zealand Health Network

National Health Index (for digital certificate)

National Cervical Screening Programme Register Implementation Guide

National Cervical Screening Programme Register Implementation Guide (with changes tracked)

Web Access Guide

User Access Form

For those wishing to access screening histories via a web page, this option is available in the new register. In addition to acquiring access to the Health Network and a digital certificate, a completed User Access Form is required (see link above). Training on the web user interface is now available for those organisations that have Health Network access, a valid digital security certificate and can open the register logon screen from a web browser. please call 0800 50 60 50) to arrange training.

Technical support is available from the technical support option on the register free phone: 0800 50 60 50.