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By *iamondsmiles. OP Woman
36 weeks ago

little house on the praire

So today I had to go to the hospital about an injection I take. They took my blood, weight and height and blood pressure. All well and good.

Tomorrow I've got a community nurse coming out to guess what take my blood weight, height and blood pressure.

They knew I was having it done today when they booked it last week.

What a bloody waste of time and money

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By *bi HaiveMan
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36 weeks ago

Cheeseville, Somerset

"So today I had to go to the hospital about an injection I take. They took my blood, weight and height and blood pressure. All well and good.

Tomorrow I've got a community nurse coming out to guess what take my blood weight, height and blood pressure.

They knew I was having it done today when they booked it last week.

What a bloody waste of time and money"

Call and cancel. All the details they took today will be on your records.

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By *icecouple561Couple
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36 weeks ago

East Sussex

I had surgery last November, they checked my blood pressure on two occasions before the actual day, before the surgery and after it, prior to that I had surgery the year before and my blood pressure was taken a gazillion times then. I have since had a text from my GP informing me that I haven't had my blood pressure taken for five years and I should go and get it checked.

I guess the software on the computer systems the NHS uses isn't joined up and leads to this sort of duplicate checking.

Meanwhile Mr N has had a text from the same GP surgery telling him to check his blood pressure himself for a week and let them know the results.

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By *uliette500Woman
36 weeks ago

Hull

"So today I had to go to the hospital about an injection I take. They took my blood, weight and height and blood pressure. All well and good.

Tomorrow I've got a community nurse coming out to guess what take my blood weight, height and blood pressure.

They knew I was having it done today when they booked it last week.

What a bloody waste of time and money

Call and cancel. All the details they took today will be on your records. "

Not necessarily, community nurses are normally organised by the gp and the surgery where I work we can't see results of bloods done at the hospital on your record. Stupid system but we often have to double up on testing.

Hospital can see ours but not the other way round.

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By *ools and the brainCouple
36 weeks ago

couple, us we him her.

Perhaps the NHS use the same software system as the Post office

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By *uzie69xTV/TS
36 weeks ago

Maidstone

"Perhaps the NHS use the same software system as the Post office

Seriously, you can't make it up...

I had blood test done FIVE weeks ago but the next day they sent me a text to say the "Sample was not usable". So five weeks later, at the retest appointment, I asked what happened to the last one? Apparently the nurse used an old, but otherwise functional label.

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By *inxy777Woman
36 weeks ago

essex

"So today I had to go to the hospital about an injection I take. They took my blood, weight and height and blood pressure. All well and good.

Tomorrow I've got a community nurse coming out to guess what take my blood weight, height and blood pressure.

They knew I was having it done today when they booked it last week.

What a bloody waste of time and money"

Is that all they are coming out for?, we wouldn’t just for that, especially if you was able to get to own practice, maybe different areas of things differently.

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36 weeks ago

"So today I had to go to the hospital about an injection I take. They took my blood, weight and height and blood pressure. All well and good.

Tomorrow I've got a community nurse coming out to guess what take my blood weight, height and blood pressure.

They knew I was having it done today when they booked it last week.

What a bloody waste of time and money"

Local nhs systems are linked

However, if you haven't authorised for your medical records to be shared, it will have to get done twice as the details can't be seen

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By *uliette500Woman
36 weeks ago

Hull

"So today I had to go to the hospital about an injection I take. They took my blood, weight and height and blood pressure. All well and good.

Tomorrow I've got a community nurse coming out to guess what take my blood weight, height and blood pressure.

They knew I was having it done today when they booked it last week.

What a bloody waste of time and money

Local nhs systems are linked

However, if you haven't authorised for your medical records to be shared, it will have to get done twice as the details can't be seen"

GP surgeries can't see hospital tests on the patients record regardless of consent to share, however hospitals and other services can see the GP record.

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By *iamondsmiles. OP Woman
36 weeks ago

little house on the praire

Well I tried to cancel the appointment over the phone (nightmare) turned up anyway.

Told her id been to the hospital, handed her the piece of paper with everything written down on and off she went. was here less than two minutes

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