Handbridge Medical Centre - About medical tests and how to get your results

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Please note the Surgery is closed for Bank Holidays, this means we will be closed on Monday 1st May and Monday 29th May, if you require medical advice or attention when then surgery is closed please contact NHS 111. Calls to the NHS 111 service are free from both landlines and mobiles and calls are recorded for your protection. If the emergency is life threatening please ring 999.

Can't keep an appointment? Please let us know as soon as possible.

Last month 25 GP appointments, 32 Nurse appointments, and 1 Phlebotomy appointment/s were not attended, these appointments could have been offered to other patients, please let us know if you cannot keep an appointment.

Always running out of regular medications?

Please keep a stock and order further supplies via EMIS patient access in good time.

If you are collecting from the surgery, please allow 2 working days, for your request to be processed. If you have requested that your prescription be sent to a Pharmacy please allow 3-4 workings before collecting from your Pharmacy.

It is your responsibility to order more medication in good time;

If you run out, we cannot release the duty doctor from more urgent tasks; please understand that for most long term medications, it is safe to leave them off for 48 hours. Our receptionists will only accept emergency scripts for medication that is dangerous to suddenly stop.

Do not ring our reception to check where your prescription is; you can check the progress of any script requested using the EMIS patient access. The system automatically updates once your script is issued.

PLEASE NOTE YOU CANNOT REGISTER FOR THIS SERVICE UNTIL YOU HAVE OBTAINED YOUR LOG IN DETAILS FROM THE SURGERY

To Register please come into surgery for your log in details. Once you have acquired these then please click this link for Patient Access https://patient.emisaccess.co.uk/

Test Results

Blood Tests

X-Rays

Test Results

test_vials2 Pathology and X-ray results are available by telephone 680169 between 2.30pm and 5.00pm, results will not be available by telephone at any other time. Alternatively you can send a stamped addressed envelope to the surgery with a request for the result to be posted to you.

To protect patient confidentially, results will only be given by telephone to the patient in person, or their parent/guardian in the case of a child.

Blood Tests

blood_tests_4 A blood test is when a sample of blood is taken for testing in a laboratory. Blood tests have a wide range of uses and are one of the most common types of medical test. For example, a blood test can be used to:

assess your general state of health
confirm the presence of a bacterial or viral infection
see how well certain organs, such as the liver and kidneys, are functioning

A blood test usually involves the phlebotomist taking a blood sample from a blood vessel in your arm. and the usual place for a sample is the inside of the elbow or wrist, where the veins are relatively close to the surface. Blood samples from children are most commonly taken from the back of the hand. The child's hand will be anaesthetised (numbed) with a special cream before the sample is taken.

You can find out more about blood tests, their purpose and the way they are performed on the NHS Choices website.

We do not take blood from Children under the age of 16 at Handbridge Medical Centre, they would need to be seen at the Children's Phlebotomy service based at the Countess of Chester Hospital.

Blood results usally take 5-7 working days to return from the lab.

X-Ray

doctor examining an x-ray An X-ray is a widely used diagnostic test to examine the inside of the body. X-rays are a very effective way of detecting problems with bones, such as fractures. They can also often identify problems with soft tissue, such as pneumonia or breast cancer.

If you have a X-ray, you will be asked to lie on a table or stand against a surface so that the part of your body being X-rayed is between the X-ray tube and the photographic plate.

An X-ray is usually carried out by a radiographer, a healthcare professional who specialises in using imaging technology, such as X-rays and ultrasound scanners.

You can find out more about x-ray tests, how they are performed, their function and the risks by visiting the NHS Choices website.