Probably because they have advisers who hold shares in POCT compnaies.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Clinical biochemistry discussion list
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Janice Still
Sent: 07 December 2005 12:29
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: childish behaviour
Which is precisely the reason that the Government has
decided that POCT is the way to go, and is encouraging pharmacies to
take on this role within the community. Jan
--- Trevor Gray <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> In message <7114C21BC2BFD41190A400508B6DAE440451349C@NMH-MAIL>,
> # David
> Ricketts <[log in to unmask]> writes
> >For the UK mail base.
> >
> >Has anyone else had samples returned to them, spun
> or unspun as the
> >laboratory has refused to do work for another
> hospital?
> >
>
> >
> Not that but I am finding increasingly that GPs are
> refusing to arrange
> for their practice staff to bleed patients a week
> prior to my lipid
> clinic. I do this so I can see a result in front of
> me when I see the
> patient and decide on their therapy there and then
> rather than do
> everything by letter in arrears. It also means I am
> unable to give
> advice or reassurance in person.
>
> So the patients have to take several buses or a taxi
> in to the hospital
> to get it done, or if they require an ambulance it
> doesn't get done.
> The main reason appears to be that their practice
> staff are too busy
> generating income for them to bother with something
> like this that is a
> nuisance that doesn't bring any income with it.
> Trevor
> --
> Trevor Gray
> Dept. of Clinical Chemistry,
> Northern General Hospital,
> Sheffield S5 7AU
>
> 0114 271 4309
>
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