Friday 03 May 2024
Internal Reference Number: FOI_7414
Date Request Received: 07/09/2023 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 12/09/2023 00:00:00
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Request Summary: Blood tubes for the period 2021-2023
Request Category: Companies
| Question Number 1: I would like to request the following information for the period 2021-2022 or 2022-2023 whichever data is available easily: in essence we are trying to gauge how many labs have to re-label blood tubes, and the size of the problem. If you have precise data that would be preferable, but if it is easier to give approximate data, that is fine also Name of your hospital or list of hospitals under your single NHS Trust. | |
| Answer To Question 1: In 22-23 we rejected approximately 6100 tubes 563 were unlabelled, but tubes can need relabelling for many reasons. | |
| Question Number 2: How many beds does your hospital or each hospital in your group have? | |
| Answer To Question 2: Our total number of General and Acute beds is 401 adults and 16 paediatric | |
| Question Number 3: What hospitals (names) does your laboratory serve? | |
| Answer To Question 3: A. Salisbury District B. New Hall (private) C. Fordingbridge (community) D. Westminster Memorial (community) | |
| Question Number 4: How many (~) blood tubes arrive in the lab (pathology specimen reception or SRA) for a 12 month periods? | |
| Answer To Question 4: 867902 | |
| Question Number 5: How many (~) blood tests does your pathology specimen reception handle during a 12 month period? | |
| Answer To Question 5: 4.39m | |
| Question Number 6: How many patients does this represent? | |
| Answer To Question 6: 267793 | |
| Question Number 7: What % of the blood tubes that arrive in the SRA (specimen reception) need to be re-labelled with a bar coded label? | |
| Answer To Question 7: Unknown - This information is not held. | |
| Question Number 8: What % of tubes that arrive direct from primary care need to be re-labelled to pass through the analyzer? | |
| Answer To Question 8: Unknown - This information is not held. | |
| Question Number 9: What % of tubes that arrive from secondary care requests need to be re-labelled to pass through the analyzer? | |
| Answer To Question 9: Unknown - This information is not held. | |
| Question Number 10: What is the split between blood tests that arrive from primary care and what proportion from hospital care? | |
| Answer To Question 10: Approx 50:50 | |
| Question Number 11: For hospital patients what proportion of blood tests are from inpatients (X%) and what proportion are from outpatients? | |
| Answer To Question 11: 51%IP 49%OP | |
| Question Number 12: For primary care patients: What is the split between blood tests taken in primary care (%), hospital phlebotomy (%), CDC phlebotomy (%) or other (%)? | |
| Answer To Question 12: Approx. 32% phlebo 58% in PC | |
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