Tests & Test Results

 

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Test Results

  • The practice will not usually inform you if your test result (x-ray, blood test, scan or other test) is normal. This is simply due to scale: we receive a very large number of normal results every day.
  • If your test result requires any further action the practice will contact you by phone or text message to let you know what to do next.

As our reception and admin staff are not clinically trained they are not able to discuss results. Please do book a phone appointment with your usual GP (or the nurse, if they requested the test) if you would like to discuss any result in more detail.

Test results online

You can also download the NHS App which will allow you to access your online notes and so look up your own results.

 

Blood Tests

Arranging a blood test - Adults

Addenbrooke’s bloods

If a clinician at Addenbrookes has asked you to have a blood test, it is often possible for us to book you the phlebotomy appointment at Bridge Street but the Addenbrooke’s clinician must give you a blood test form which you must bring with you to your appointment. We cannot take bloods for the hospital without the hospital blood test form. 

Routine monitoring bloods

Some long-term conditions, such as diabetes, heart failure and thyroid disease require monitoring bloods at regular intervals (usually annually). The practice will ask you to attend for these blood tests when they fall due; you do not need to do anything further.

Wishing a blood test for another reason

If you are wishing a blood test for any other reason, you will first need to make an appointment to discuss the request with your usual GP, or a GP colleague, at the practice. If appropriate the GP can then raise a request for you on the clinical system (the blood test form is called a TQUEST). Our nursing team cannot take bloods without a valid TQUEST (which may be on the computer system or a print-out), or a paper Addenbrooke’s request form.

Drop-in phlebotomy service – drive through 

With a hospital or a GP request form, you can also attend the drive-through phlebotomy service at Newmarket Road. You do not need an appointment for this service. Your results will go directly to the requesting GP or hospital clinician, depending on who requested the test.

Extended access blood tests (out-of-hours) 

Blood test appointments are also available at the Extended Access Service during the evening and weekend, at one of their hubs. Please speak to reception if you would like to book into this service. You will need the same paperwork as above – an Addenbrookes form, or a TQUEST blood form raised by a Bridge Street clinician, which would need to be collected from the surgery prior to your appointment. 

 

Arranging a blood test - Children

Our nursing team can only carry out blood tests for adult patients (over 16). For children you will need to book a phlebotomy appointment at Addenbrookes: 01223 348903. There may be a voicemail and you should provide child's full name, DOB, NHS number, also the name of the parents / guardians and contact details. As with adults, you will need a blood test request form before blood can be taken – an Addenbrooke’s form from the hospital consultant, if the bloods have been requested by the hospital; or a TQUEST form raised by a Bridge Street GP if the blood tests have been requested by a clinician at Bridge Street.

 

Private blood tests

As an NHS organisation we are not able to see patients for private blood tests.

If a patient would like to have a blood test done privately, they will need to contact the organisation that has requested a sample and arrange for the test to be carried out via that organisation. 

Please note that, as per GMC guidance, the interpretation of tests is the responsibility of the requesting clinician; Bridge Street GPs cannot comment or act on the results of tests carried out by other clinicians.

 

Anaesthetic cream

You can buy a cream called Emla to numb the area before a blood test for adults or children. This is widely available from pharmacies, instructions for use are in the packet, it needs to be applied about an hour before you attend for any blood tests.