Wait For Blood Test Results

[MikeyBikey]

It is now over two weeks since I had my blood tests. As nothing had appeared on Patient Access I spoke with the surgery. They do have the results but will not release them until a doctor has reviewed them. I asked if I could be told them and it was a NO not until they have been reviewed. I asked when that would be and was told they did not know but would email the doctor. I basically wanted my HbA1c (to compare to Libre prediction), eGFR and cholesterol (broken down rather than simple total figure). I would imagine most people interested enough to join the forum would know the meaning of these results! It is frustrating being treated like this as after all it is my blood and my body!

 

[Davetherave99]

Typical hope your get some good news soon...

 

[effayjay]

You might want to hint at a subject access request:

“You have the right to ask an organisation if they're using or storing your personal information. You can also ask them for copies of your personal information.

This is called the right of access and is also known as making a subject access request, a SAR or a DSAR.

Anyone can make a SAR. You don’t need a solicitor or a lawyer.

Organisations usually have one month to respond to a SAR.”

Source : information Commissioner

This might encourage them to understand that it’s your information, not theirs.

 

[Leadinglights]

It does seem sensible that the Dr should review the blood results before they are released but not the length of time that takes.

 

[Proud to be erratic]

It does seem sensible that the Dr should review the blood results before they are released but not the length of time that takes.

I'm not so sure about this. I can see that there can be patients who might in some way be less able to manage particular results and so a GP might have a solid reason to relay the information in a personal and controlled manner. I certainly agree there should be negligible time delay for most results to be posted on people's records.

But given @MikeyBikey's decades as T1 and his current challenges with his remaining leg, there is to my mind absolutely no reason for any GP to withhold an HbA1c result. There is an arrogance from the ethos of any GP Surgery that decides it should withhold such results and a laziness by any GP that can't "get round" to reviewing and approving the results going onto their records. I know that my own Medical Centre has a backlog of incoming notifications, mainly electronic, that results in these not even getting onto their internal IT from sources such as a Hospital Trust, particularly if that Trust is not within the former (and in theory now defunct) CCG.

I've had to go to Reception and politely but extremely robustly insist my result is "found" and processed very promptly. When I've been told that isn't possible, my persistence has reversed that impossibility! BUT, it should not be like this and my Dispensing Pharmacy tells me this has been going on for a long time. My instinct is that the senior Partners prefer the profitability of the Centre to employing one or more extra staff to catch up. I hope I'm wrong, but .... "perception is reality, never mind the facts!"

 

[Drummer]

I'd have been doing the shakes diet for over a week longer if I had not asked for and ben given the HbA1c result and discovered it was not doing me any good.