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
Frequently Confused With
Who is this code for?
Verified: SEMANTIC_SECTION_MATRIXMedical practitioners
SOC 2020:2211 Common titles: Doctor, GP, Physician
Care workers and home helpers
SOC 2020:6131 Common titles: Carer, Support worker
Related Occupations
Health services and public health managers and directorsVeterinary nurses
Evidence: Representative SOC 2020 occupations for SIC Section Q (Diagnostic imaging services and medical laboratory activities).
In this section
- 86.92 — Patient Transportation by Ambulance
- 86.93 — Activities of Psychologists and Psychotherapists, Except Medical Doctors
- 86.94 — Nursing and Midwifery Activities
- 86.95 — Physiotherapy Activities
- 86.96 — Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicine Activities
- 86.97 — Intermediation Service Activities for Medical, Dental and Other Human Health Services
- 86.99 — Other Human Health Activities N.e.c.
Data source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) —
UK SIC 2026
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