Anyone else had a “community” blood test?

[MarkGeordie]

Just thought I’d ask what’s happening else where.

My step dad said he had the GP on the telephone yesterday informing him he was to have a community based blood test because his last Diabetes check wasn’t so great so they want it urgently checked again.

This however would be done at his home, a ambulance vehicle will be attending his address at 10.30 tomorrow which he is to enter and get his blood test.

This happening anywhere else?

He is NE based.

 

[rebrascora]

My partner had to attend our GP surgery for a blood test last week..... oddly when he got home the postie had been and he has been sent a "shielding" letter and the blood test was because he is on an immunosuppressant drug which is why he got the shielding letter. We are in the NE. He isn't bothered because he is still going to work at the farm, but I have persuaded him not to go to the shops anymore.
It sounds like a great idea to have a mobile blood testing unit to visit the elderly and vulnerable rather than them having to possibly use public transport to attend a surgery.

 

[mikeydt1]

think it will vary from area to area as to which service is used to obtain bloods. around here they are using 2 teams combined, long term conditions nurses and district nurses. think it will also boil down to which practices use what ever service available.

personally i wouldn't worry too much as to who is coming as long as the bloods are obtained and hygiene rules applied

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Really interesting @MarkGeordie

Having heard how long the social isolation is expected to last, I think we will begin to see more adaptations and initiatives like this.

There are lots of reports about HCPs expressing concern over people not coming forward for (or being able to attend) routine screening appointments because of the disrupted healthcare system.

The longer it goes on, the more clinics are going to need to find a way of (safely) making appointments available.

 

[MarkGeordie]

Really interesting @MarkGeordie

Having heard how long the social isolation is expected to last, I think we will begin to see more adaptations and initiatives like this.

There are lots of reports about HCPs expressing concern over people not coming forward for (or being able to attend) routine screening appointments because of the disrupted healthcare system.

The longer it goes on, the more clinics are going to need to find a way of (safely) making appointments available.

Yeah I thought it was interesting, different areas are adapting.

 

[trophywench]

I've been assuming - with no other info - that because all of the medical diabetes team up the sharp end ie in hospital diabetes clinics, because first and foremost they are ALL properly qualified doctors and nurses who just happen to have taken diabetes or oncology or mental health etc etc etc as their current speciality, they would all be expected to take their turn on the Covid19 front.

Neither of us two have needed to have a blood test for our speciality health concerns as yet, but none of them is currently giving us a particular problem either - so I'm clueless about how or what is likely to happen locally, when the time comes - none of our conditions can be intelligently interpreted by a medic without blood test results.

 

[MarkGeordie]

I've been assuming - with no other info - that because all of the medical diabetes team up the sharp end ie in hospital diabetes clinics, because first and foremost they are ALL properly qualified doctors and nurses who just happen to have taken diabetes or oncology or mental health etc etc etc as their current speciality, they would all be expected to take their turn on the Covid19 front.

Neither of us two have needed to have a blood test for our speciality health concerns as yet, but none of them is currently giving us a particular problem either - so I'm clueless about how or what is likely to happen locally, when the time comes - none of our conditions can be intelligently interpreted by a medic without blood test results.

Im assuming a lot of areas are doing similar things but when I spoke to my DSN on 23 March she said the team were still contactable on the number we have and a DSN would be available daily Monday to Friday but the teams are been deployed elsewhere.