And don't forget you are keeping your lovely audit trail of all the people
you have tried to get to accept the report for the coroner, the High Court
and the general medical Council.....
Robert Forrest
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[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Reynolds Tim
Sent: 16 December 2003 15:16
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Subject: Re: Telephoning results
The PCT should provide an out-of-hours service if the local GPs do not. It
is your duty to contact the night call people and give them the result. If
they refuse to accept it you record the name of the person who refused to
take the result in the lab computer & print it out on the report form. If
you really want to go nuclear you send a copy of the report form to the
chief exec of the PCT and if he does nothing about it, the next time a
report is refused you phone the PCT medical Director... and then the chief
exec. Eventually the message will get through.
TIM
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Heather Thornes
> Sent: 16 December 2003 15:02
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> Subject: Telephoning results
>
>
> Although my lab. still runs a conventional 9-5 service, with
> on-call, we are
> finding it increasingly difficult to telephone abnormal
> results to GPs or
> indeed medical staff if the sample has come from OPD. We see this as
> becoming even more difficult when the new GP contracts come
> into service. My
> question therefore is - how do labs. which operate a 24 hr
> shift service
> deal with the problem of such results which may be generated at very
> unsocial hours. What responsibility does the BMS who generated such a
> result, or the clinical scientist who authorises it have in
> communicating
> it?
> Many thanks in anticipation of your replies & seasonal
> greetings to all
> mail-base participants!
>
> Heather
>
> Heather Thornes
> Consultant Clinical Scientist
> University Hospital of N.Tees & Hartlepool
> STOCKTON-ON-TEES
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