Test Results
Test results will only be given to patients themselves or to the parents of minors.
Results can only be given over the telephone by prior arrangement with the Doctor or Practice Nurse.
It is your responsibility to ring or attend for the test results.
Please allow 4 days for blood, urine, faeces and non-genital swab test results
Please allow upto 2 weeks for genital swab results
Please allow upto 3 weeks for scans and X-Ray results
Results of tests organised by the hospital will go to the requesting clinician in hospital. The specialist is responsible for acting upon the results of any test he/she requests and for informing you of the results.
If you haven’t heard from the specialist about a test result please ring his or her secretary at the hospital. Unfortunately your surgery may not know the result and will not know what the specialist intended to do with the information.
Confidentiality
All patients’ medical records, be they on file or in the computer are confidential and kept secure. Safeguards are in place under GDPR.
All staff have access to personal information in order to provide for you healthcare and are regularly trained and kept up to date with confidentiality and information security.
Sometimes it is necessary to share information with other organisations in order to provide the best care and so that we can all work together for your benefit. Such organisations could be private hospitals, ambulance services, other GP’s, NHS Primary Care trust, Hospital Trusts or Strategic Health Authorities.
We may have to disclose personal information by law; a new birth, infectious diseases e.g. meningitis or where a formal court order has been issued.