The acute biobank collection can support explorations of novel application of laboratory biomarkers in acute medical care. The population is acute medical presentations to secondary care. Examples of areas currently in exploration are acute cardiovascular presentations and acute kidney injury. The collection consists of whole blood, serum, plasma and citrate plasma samples and associated clinical data. The collection has scope for adjustment to the sample type collection through NCARC’s simple amendment process. This collection aims to promote biomedical research by providing biomaterial to academic and commercial researchers/partners to facilitate high-quality research in establishing a clear diagnosis in patients presenting to hospitals. There is potential to improve the method and time taken for diagnosis with refinement of laboratory processing and biomarker discovery. The biological samples collected will enable a number of different analyses to be performed. This may include (but is not limited to): • Biomarker studies • Immunological studies • Multi-morbidity studies