DS (18) was admitted by ambulance to A&E on 12th March with heart pain.
They did a troponin test, & full bloods, including a CRP test.
The next day before we went home, the doctor discharged him and when I asked for blood results, she verbally told me ‘they’re all normal but you can follow up with your GP if you want’. No notes given to me and I assumed the blood results would automatically be sent to DS’ GP.
So i leave it a week and call GP who say “no, we won’t be sent A&E notes or bloods. You’ll need to contact hospital”. I think it’s a bit odd that the bloods weren’t sent but I called A&E to ask - they said they have no idea!
They said to contact the SARS department and do a medical notes request!
So by the time I worked out how to do it online, it was 2 weeks later. Today, I messaged as I had got nothing back and they instantly sent the results.
All normal…..except for his C-Reactive Protein (CRP) result.
The range said >5.
His result said 47 !!!!!!! The box saying ‘abnormal’ had (H) in it - I’m guessing (H) is high.
So I looked online and saw that a result above 50 is ‘severe’.
Im fuming that they simply archived his medical notes/blood results! They knew his history which is actually heart related and still didn’t bother to send the blood results through.
If I hadn’t made an Access request, there would be no way to know he now needs a repeat blood test to check it’s gone down ok.
Really negligent I feel. So that was mid-March to start of May until we knew blood results. Surely blood results should be sent to GP regardless of whether they’re normal or not- as a record of what was done? 🤔