Getting your test results
If your test results show that you need more tests or treatment, we will contact you.
Once a doctor has reviewed your test results, you can view them:
- in your NHS App and your NHS account
- in your SystmOnline account
- phone or visit us after 2pm and we will tell you what the results are
Questions about your results
If you want to talk to someone about your results, fill out our test results request form and someone will be in touch.
Non-urgent advice: Please note
We do have a strict policy regarding confidentiality and data protection.
We will only give out results to the person they relate to.
You can find out about tests, how they are performed, their function and the risks by visiting the NHS Choices website.
The Practice does not undertake blood tests for the hospital or a private consultant unless they are part of specified ongoing treatments involving INRs for warfarin management, methotrexate or one of a very limited number of drugs prescribed by GPs under specific shared care advice from consultants.
All tests that are required by the hospital must be undertaken at the hospital that requested them.
Why is this?
The clinician who requests the test is responsible for reading the test results correctly. The reason a person may be under a consultant at a hospital is for specialist advice. A GP practice cannot and should not do these blood tests as the result would come back to the GP and not the specialist as they should do. A GP cannot take responsibility for reading the test results for a specialist consultant.
Some drugs (e.g. chemotherapy) may only be prescribed by hospital consultants because they require specialised monitoring blood tests and so for your safety, such blood tests must be taken by the team at the Hospital.
If you have been asked to have a blood test by one of our hospitals’ services (for example at an outpatient clinic) you cannot have your sample taken at your GP Surgery. Please contact The Princess Royal Hospital to book an appointment.
You will need to bring the pathology request form which should have been filled in by your doctor, consultant or dentist
Book your blood test at The Princess Royal Hospital you can call 01444 441881 Ext. 68199 or book by email on [email protected], alternatively book online on The Princess Royal Hospital Website.