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Original poster

gp doesn't do blood test?

87 replies

mousmous · 18/03/2015 15:42

so have to treck to major hospital at bloody inconvenient time to have it done.
aibu to think such a basic service should be done there and then?

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MangoJuggler · 18/03/2015 15:47

Our GP surgery has a phleb in once a week to do bloods

We are stupidly rural though

TheMoa · 18/03/2015 15:52

We have to attend a local clinic.

Its only five minutes from the doctor's surgery, but that's pure luck. Most people have to travel quite a way to get there.

I can only imagine the queues in the already congested surgery if they did bloods there.

OddBodkins · 18/03/2015 15:52

Same here and we're not rural. It seems a bit of a hike doesn't it?

notsolovely · 18/03/2015 15:54

My mums gp is like that. Must be the hospital for blood tests.

OddBodkins · 18/03/2015 15:54

Ours used to though so not sure why that changed.

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mousmous · 18/03/2015 16:02

we are in london. gp is twenty min by bus (on a good day) hosp 20mon in other directon. have to take a day off work for a 10 min app...

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mousmous · 18/03/2015 16:04

and you have tp make an app to get bloods taken ...

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mousmous · 18/03/2015 16:08

can I have it done privately and have the results to gp?

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Salmotrutta · 18/03/2015 16:09

Well, if the sample is being taken for various tests it will have to be sent to the hospital labs anyway so maybe they are trying to "streamline" and cut out the extra step of GPs sending them in?

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mousmous · 18/03/2015 16:10

but forgetting about the patient in between...

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LittleMiss77 · 18/03/2015 16:10

mine doesnt either. i can either trek across the city to the hospital and sit there for most of the day waiting for my number to be called or go to a local chemist.

do you have a lloyds or similar close by? they sometimes do bloods

Madamecastafiore · 18/03/2015 16:11

Are you planning on taking the bloods to the lab from your GP surgery or paying for a taxi to do so?

Notrevealingmyidentity · 18/03/2015 16:13

Didnt know any did.

MissDuke · 18/03/2015 16:14

In my surgery, the GP decides you need bloods and takes a note of what on the computer, then you make an appt with the nurse to have them taken - usually the following week unless very urgent. I thought that was annoying enough!!!

DilysDerwent · 18/03/2015 16:17

At my surgery they have a bloods clinic but there are no appointments so you just turn up and queue for an hour or more.

arethereanyleftatall · 18/03/2015 16:24

In a stretched budget, this seems a sensible area to cut costs to. It's hardly an emergency. Yabu.

EeekEeekEeekEeek · 18/03/2015 16:27

TBH, I'm not sure taking, storing, labelling and sending bloods as and when people come in, then dealing with & reporting the results, is a 'basic' service. It entails quite a lot of staff time - and cost, I would imagine, in sending individual vials off to labs rather than in bulk as they can do from a phleb clinic or weekly nurse clinic.

It's a pain in the arse for you, I agree, but I can see why it happens. Perhaps we should be lobbying the government to stop pissing around with NHS funding and targets, and then doctors' surgeries and hospitals would have the time and money to spend on providing a better service.

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mousmous · 18/03/2015 16:36

paediatrics are even more complicated. you have to call between 2 and for for apointments between 9 and 11 twice a week :o

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mousmous · 18/03/2015 16:37

that was supposed to be Shock

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mousmous · 18/03/2015 16:38

tbh I would be happy to pay a small amount to have apps that are convenient

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Madamecastafiore · 18/03/2015 16:40

Thing is it would cost a lot more than a small amount.

gamerchick · 18/03/2015 16:42

Exactly.

You could always yanno just not get one if it's such a massive inconvenience.

OhYouBadBadKitten · 18/03/2015 16:51

I feel very fortunate that that my gp surgery does them - can take a week or two for an appointment or you can take your little bag down to a local hospital that does walk-ins.

Its all sort of ok for others if they are fit and well, have understanding work etc but if they are disabled, elderly, have an arse for an employer, can't afford (the probably almost non existent) public transport then these arrangements can make basic health care an almost impossible thing to access.

Yanbu.

3cupsoftea · 18/03/2015 16:52

Wow- ours is all done in house by a nurse. For my last test I handed my paper into the desk to book and she said, the nurse is free now if you want to go through?
The lab missed something so at my next GP appt he just took another sample himself then and there!

myusernameisusername · 18/03/2015 16:58

No GP performs blood tests ever. it is done by the practitioner nurse or midwife of the surgery if your surgery doesn't have a nurse or midwife in each day then you go to the bloods department at your local hospital

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