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NHS - I am not a number! (Well not an NHS one anyway!)

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janipans Fri 13-Jan-23 12:05:11

So, hubby went for blood test and urine screening yesterday in relation to his kidney transplant.
Today, he went to the GP for a diabetes check and was aked for a blood test and urine sample. He explained that as he had done that yesterday it would show on his records shortly but apparently, the 2 sets of records are not linked so he has to do the whole lot again!!! Clearly they are even more useless with computers than me!
Why can not all the tests and info on one patient be kept on his NHS record under his NHS record number?
They don't need more money, they have just had 2 lots of phlebotomists and two urine sample checkers duplicating work! They just need a good IT consultant to come up with a better system!
Grrrr!

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Germanshepherdsmum Fri 13-Jan-23 12:10:48

The two sets of samples would have been analysed by different people for entirely different things. It’s not duplication.

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growstuff Fri 13-Jan-23 12:35:14

My records are linked, but it depends who did the first blood tests and the systems your local provider has in place.

I also now have access to all my tests online.

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growstuff Fri 13-Jan-23 12:37:53

GSM has a point. The kidney specialist possibly didn't do an HbA1c test and all the full bloods which diabetics usually have during screening.

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Marydoll Fri 13-Jan-23 13:28:07

Im in Scotland and all my blood tests are accessible to all my clinicians, hospital consultant or GP.

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Germanshepherdsmum Fri 13-Jan-23 13:51:55

I have blood tests solely to check levels of one of the drugs I take. My husband has them solely for diabetic purposes. There are so many things that you can be screened for by a blood test, it would be impossible to check for everything through one sample - and very time consuming and expensive. Same with dogs - mine recently had two samples taken at once for entirely different reasons.

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midgey Fri 13-Jan-23 14:02:45

You could possibly need to give ‘an armful’ of blood to have all possible tests!

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Germanshepherdsmum Fri 13-Jan-23 14:10:36

As Tony Hancock said!

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growstuff Fri 13-Jan-23 15:20:45

midgey

You could possibly need to give ‘an armful’ of blood to have all possible tests!

Not really! I have about a dozen (sometimes more) tests done regularly and have just one needle. The blood is sent off in three or four small phials. They don't need much for each test.

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Marydoll Fri 13-Jan-23 15:27:30

growstuff

midgey

You could possibly need to give ‘an armful’ of blood to have all possible tests!

Not really! I have about a dozen (sometimes more) tests done regularly and have just one needle. The blood is sent off in three or four small phials. They don't need much for each test.

I'm the same. Sometimes the bloods need to go to different labs.

As for not being linked up, I find that odd, that the GP can't access hospital records.
I found out a clinic, that I had two hairline fractures in my foot, nothing to do with that clinic, but the consultant was having a look at scans ordered by someone else.
Recently my RA consultant accessed test results, ordered by consultant, in a different speciality.

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