Changes in opening hours
The unit is closed from Friday to Monday, April 18, 2025 - April 21, 2025, and on Thursday, May 1, 2025.
In the Tapiola laboratory we serve customers with booked appointments and walk-in customers may take a queue number. We recommend booking an appointment.
- After 2:00 p.m. we serve walk-in customers who only collect or return sample containers, and urgent patients. Walk-in clients may take a queue number.
- We accept referrals from private physicians.
- Our laboratory is located at the Tapiola Health Center.
- Register at the self-registration kiosk when you arrive at the laboratory.
- We take whooping cough and corona samples on weekdays from 7:15 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
- Please contact your health center before arriving for sampling because you need a referral for sampling.
- Please note that you must wear a face mask when you come for sampling.
- If necessary, you can find the mask in the entrance lobby next to registration.
- Use the H button to take a number from the queue number machine and wait for your turn in the lobby.
- Our laboratory has a return machine, where you can return most common samples taken at home until 2:15 p.m.
- You may pick up and return sample containers without booking an appointment.
- Blood and urine samples
- Cervical cancer screening
- ECG
- ECG for patients under the age of 12
- Fungal culture tests
- Glucose tolerance tests
- Gynecological samples
- Spirometry
- Throat swab
- Urine drug tests
Book an appointment online (opens in new window, links to another website)
You can book a laboratory appointment online. You always need a referral for laboratory tests.

How do I prepare for examinations and where do I get the results?
Examinations always require a referral. See here for more information on preparing for and arriving to examinations, and on receiving the results.

Updated: 10.04.2025