There is another issue to this which I guess would be overlooked.
At the risk of sounding like a green fanatic, there is something
distasteful about using the most polluting form of transport (air) to
save a few pounds.
As an aside I thought we had left behind the idea that pathology testing
was the first place you go to cut costs in health care. Like someone has
already said, its not a commodity and I believe we have been very
successful (? The most successful discipline) in increasing our
efficiency and value to health care processes.
If you want to start saving more money how about making sure that the
requestors fill in forms correctly so we do repeat testing to confirm
results e.g. telling us the patient is on zoladex when you get
undetectable PSAs so you repeat the test just in case it's a missample
etc
Craig
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