Arden Tissue Bank

Arden Tissue Bank operates under a Human Tissue Authority post mortem licence within a district general hospital. The biobank has generic ethical approval, and is able to collect tissues prospectively across a wide range of tissue types. In addition the biobank has access to the full pathological archive across three hospital sites. The cellular pathology archive is searchable by SNOMED coding for selection of specific conditions of interest. The cellular pathology archive alone totals almost 2 million blocks, with full patient data available from 2005 including pathology reports.