Anyone ever heard of NHS numbers......?
Jan
--- Reynolds Tim
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> We tend to reject bills that do not have patient
> identities on them
> because (especially for expensive bills) we check to
> make sure we
> actually ordered what we are being charged for.
> Frequently, we find no
> record of a patient / sample ever having come
> through our lab (which
> gives the finance weasels something to play with)...
>
> TIM
>
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Clinical biochemistry discussion list
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
> Of Trevor Gray
> Sent: 30 January 2007 21:24
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Billing for tests
>
>
> Dear Colleagues,
> Apologies to our overseas friends, - an
> administrative problem from our
> pseudo-commercial NHS.
> I have been asked to inquire how other Trusts
> identify samples on their
> invoices to other Trusts. Our practice is to include
> the patients' name
> on the invoice, but some Trusts have asked us to
> stop this as it is a
> Caldicott issue for the, although the invoice only
> goes to the finance
> department so it shouldn't be a Caldicott problem.
> We do this as if we
> do not include the patient's name, the receiving
> Trust's first instinct
> is to query the invoice and including the name
> usually circumvents this.
>
> There is no universal combination of laboratory
> number, hospital or NHS
> number which gives greater anonymity with certainty
> and ease of
> identification which is provided by all sending
> laboratories (Yes there
> are some labs that don't include other identifiers,
> not even lab.
> numbers!). If we can't use the name (which we always
> get) what else is
> there?
>
> Sorry its such a dull query but it is wasting a lot
> of office time so if
>
> anyone has cracked this problem please let me know.
> Trevor
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> Trevor Gray
> Dept. of Clinical Chemistry,
> Northern General Hospital,
> Sheffield S5 7AU
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> 0114 271 4309
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