Thank You Trevor,
It's like drawing blood from a stone, or a drink from
a Scotsman(which I am), getting answers to a simple
question. But then, I was an MLSO and the majority on
the maibase are Clinical Biochemists. I propose to
present a poster at an international meeting, with a
simple question I have, which is "Laboratories.- Who
is in control?".
Most labs moved to discrete analysis on the pretext
of discarding profiles and using selective testing,
thus decreasing the test/request ratio (workload).
Does this hold true today?
Are Clinical Biochemists (with their expert knowledge
of clinical biochemistry and disease) not able to
persuade their clinical colleagues that most of what
they are requesting may be irrelevant? Or are labs
(not only Clinical Biochemists), under siege because
of medico-legal consequences?
Regards
David Brown
--- Trevor Gray <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >
Dear David,
>
> I have followed this correspondence but haven't
> replied because I feel
> the numbers are largely irrelevant (much as ARWF
> said in his legal
> fashion). Our beds are full up all the time so we
> generally have one or
> more than one request per bed per day. With
> internal trading (as per
> the Annals article) we don't suffer financially but
> I have to say that
> the sheer grind of the workload is daunting
> especially when authorising
> (as today).
>
> I do, of course, collect statistics (a by product of
> internal trading)
> and can give you chapter and verse for a few years.
> e,g,
>
>
> ATTACHMENT part 2 application/vnd.ms-excel
>
> I think that is probably mirrored throughout the
> NHS.
>
> Trevor
> --
> Trevor Gray
> Dept. of Clinical Chemistry,
> Northern General Hospital,
> Sheffield S5 7AU
>
> 0114 271 4309
>
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