The flagship Countess of Chester Hospital in Cheshire has appointed Beckman Coulter UK as their managed service provider for the next 10 years transforming the lab into a fully automated, single-site blood science facility. Chester already runs 3.1 million tests a year and needed a solution which was custom designed to the laboratory’s exact requirements. After an extensive tendering process, it chose a total automation solution, installing two separate lines of tracking, including a fully integrated aliquotting module and a 3,000 sample refrigerated stockyard. The Beckman Coulter Power Processor carries samples to two UniCel DxI 800 immunoassay analysers and three UniCel DxC 800 clinical chemistry systems.