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All Test Results

We will not routinely inform you if the results are normal.

Blood/ Urine/Stool Tests - Subject to Prior GP Authorisation Only

Requests for blood Tests are subject to prior instruction or authorisation by a Practice GP or Surgery staff only.

Any patients requesting additional tests which have not been prior agreed/authorised will be refused and shall require a GP consultation to request.


Please call the surgery on 01467 642289 between the hours of 11:00 - 17:00 and press option 4 to receive your results.

Results can sometimes take a few days to come back from the labs and be reported on. Please take into consideration weekends and public holidays.

You will be advised to call back for your results in a few days.

Our administration team are not clinically trained to interpret results therefore can only give out the information that the GP or Nurse Practitioner has asked them to.

Normally you will be notified by the administration staff or clinician if you need to make a follow up appointment or have further tests.

The GP will also normally advise if they want to discuss your results with you in an appointment.

 

Please remember that the staff can only act in accordance with the Clinician's instructions so may not be able to give you a result.

This does not necessarily mean that there is a problem but simply that the Doctor needs to talk to you, to explain the whole situation.

The results of tests carried out during hospital visits are not normally sent to the practice.

 

Confidentiality

Results for patients aged over 12 years old can only be given to the patient.

In this respect we will only give out results to the person they relate to unless that person has given prior permission for their release or if they are not capable of understanding them.

You can get a Consent for Results form on the Forms section of the website or collect from the surgery this information will be recorded into the patient's medical notes.

 

Patient Notice

We will do our best to contact you personally to tell you a result if the Clinician wishes that you be contacted rather than wait for you to phone in for your result.

The reception team will not leave a message on an answering machine, other than asking you to contact the Surgery, this is for Data Protection and adherence to patient confidentiality legislation.

 

Laboratory Specimens

Specimens should be handed in to the Surgery as early in the day as possible.

Please ensure that your sample is sealed securely, samples that leak, may cause delay in your result/s or having to be repeated.

Please ensure, that your Name and Date of Birth are on the container.

X-Ray

An X-ray is a widely used diagnostic test to examine the inside of the body.

X-rays are a very effective way of detecting problems with bones, such as fractures. They can also often identify problems with soft tissue, such as pneumonia or breast cancer.

An X-ray is usually carried out by a radiographer, a healthcare professional who specialises in using imaging technology, such as X-rays and ultrasound scanners. If you have been referred for an X-ray from a GP or clinician the results will come back to the surgery.

 

 

Patients who have been requested by the hospital to get blood samples done, must get these done at the Community Hub.

You can contact them on the Outpatient booking line.

01224 555177 or 0345 456 6000

Mon-Fri:    08:30-17:00

Saturday:   09:00-14:00

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