Which is precisely the reason that the Government has
decided that POCT is the way to go, and is encouraging
pharmacies to take on this role within the community.
Jan
--- Trevor Gray <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> In message
> <7114C21BC2BFD41190A400508B6DAE440451349C@NMH-MAIL>,
> # David
> Ricketts <[log in to unmask]> writes
> >For the UK mail base.
> >
> >Has anyone else had samples returned to them, spun
> or unspun as the
> >laboratory has refused to do work for another
> hospital?
> >
>
> >
> Not that but I am finding increasingly that GPs are
> refusing to arrange
> for their practice staff to bleed patients a week
> prior to my lipid
> clinic. I do this so I can see a result in front of
> me when I see the
> patient and decide on their therapy there and then
> rather than do
> everything by letter in arrears. It also means I am
> unable to give
> advice or reassurance in person.
>
> So the patients have to take several buses or a taxi
> in to the hospital
> to get it done, or if they require an ambulance it
> doesn't get done.
> The main reason appears to be that their practice
> staff are too busy
> generating income for them to bother with something
> like this that is a
> nuisance that doesn't bring any income with it.
> Trevor
> --
> Trevor Gray
> Dept. of Clinical Chemistry,
> Northern General Hospital,
> Sheffield S5 7AU
>
> 0114 271 4309
>
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