Blood tests Hillcrest Surgery - No need to panic
Hillcrest surgery have new of this on there website it goes as follows :-Changes to Phlebotomy Services ( posted on Jul 9, 2015 ) From 1st July Ealing CCG has commissioned services for processesing blood and urine samples from Hillingdon Hospital (it had previously been Hammersmith Hospital).As part of this change patients will no longer be able to attend the walk-in blood service at Hammersmith Hospital for blood tests that have been requested by our GPs. Patients are also not expected to attend Hillingdon Hospital for blood tests.Patients who require blood tests should book in to our phlebotomy clinics here at the Surgery. We are training up more staff to take more bloods in house but in the mean time if there is not enough capacity there are additional blood clinics at Acton Health Centre and our receptionists can give you the details of these.Some patients may still have bloods taken at Hammersmith Hospital but only if requested by a consultant as part of outpatient care or pre-operative preparation and not those requested by a GP.Although the change-over has been difficult for us one benefit is that we now have access to the results of any blood test our patient has taken at a hospital in North West London. This means that if you've had a recent blood test for example during a hospital admission then because we can access that result we may not need to ask you have another blood test here.
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