Am interested in your comments and agree.
Can you please tell me which hospitals use dedicated printing of results?
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Biggest problem I see with lab services is not WHAT is provided, but how
much trouble we still have to go through to get it...
In some hospitals, at certain hours, practitioners still have to
telephone/bleep to advise technicians that a sample is on its way and a
result expected. Luckily this system is beginning to die, but not fast
enough. There are many ways to improve this.
If all departments are forced to purchase label printers for specimens (yes,
some still have none) and forms are one copy, NOT duplicate or triplicate,
that saves more time.
Then results are automatically printed at a dedicated printer at their
originating area as soon as ready, without having to phone and without
having to look for them on some computer... Even more time saved.
I have seen each and every one of these "inventions" in the UK - they are
not my idea. I have yet to see all of them in one place. If yours is such a
place, please let me know who your god is and I will worship...
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>>I have
>>chosen several things in the wishlist that my Trust already achieves such
>>as 24 hour pathology and radiology services) to improve people's
>>perception both patients and health care providers.
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>I joined the list as a VAS trainer but work full time in a clinical
>biochemistry laboratory where we provide 24hr cover (0800-2000 staffed
>laboratory, 2000-0800 'on-call' MLSO resident in hospital providing core
>tests) - an air tube system means that results can be back in AE within 30
>mins for most tests (much sooner for some i.e. blood gases).
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>What do the list see as being essential or desirable tests available
>outside
>the 'traditional' working day and with what type of turn-around time
>(minutes, hours, next day etc.), especially with respect to the 'medical
>assessment unit'.
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>How would you like to see pathology support evolve?
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>Cheers,
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