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86.91
Class
Diagnostic imaging services and medical laboratory activities
SDMX: R8691
Class Level
4 Depth
0 Children
7 Siblings
📋 Official Classification Notes

✓ Includes

This class includes activities of medical laboratories providing analytic or diagnostic services (without the medical analysis or interpretation itself), including body fluid analysis or genetic testing, directly to outpatients with or without referral from healthcare practitioners, for example: - X-ray laboratories and other diagnostic imaging centres - blood analysis laboratories - DNA sequencing for ruling out or curing a specific disease

+ Also Includes

This class also includes: - laboratory doping control activities

✗ Excludes

This class excludes: - non-medical laboratory testing, testing activities in the field of food hygiene, activities of forensic laboratories, see 71.20 - medical analysis and interpretation of diagnostic medical images (X-ray, electrocardiograms, endoscopies, etc.), see 86.22 - activities of genome data centres, blood and organ banks, see 86.99

Who is this code for?

Verified: SEMANTIC_SECTION_MATRIX
Common titles: Doctor, GP, Physician

Nurses

SOC 2020:2231
Common titles: Nurse, Staff nurse
Common titles: Carer, Support worker

Evidence: Representative SOC 2020 occupations for SIC Section Q (Diagnostic imaging services and medical laboratory activities).

Data source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) — UK SIC 2026
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