Monday 05 May 2025
Internal Reference Number: FOI_8429
Date Request Received: 05/02/2025 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 15/02/2025 00:00:00
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Request Summary: Blood Test Study
Request Category: Researcher
| Question Number 1: I would like to request the following information for the period 2021-2022 or 2022-2023, whichever is more readily available. Names of hospitals under your NHS Trust | |
| Answer To Question 1: Salisbury Foundation Trust | |
| Question Number 2: Does your hospital perform blood tests or are they outsourced to an external laboratory? a. Hospital based tests b. External laboratory (please name) | |
| Answer To Question 2: A | |
| Question Number 3: How many blood tubes are received in pathology reception each year? Many labs know the actual number and if so please state. e.g. In 2023, Our lab received 3.4 million tubes (please amend with actual number if known) If not known, please estimate the number. a. Less than 500,000 b. 500,000 – 1,000,000 c. 1,000,000 – 2,500,000 d. 2,500,000 – 5,000,000 e. >5,000,000 | |
| Answer To Question 3: B | |
| Question Number 4: If you do not know the answer to (3). How many patients have blood tests in your laboratory each year. Many labs know the actual number and if so please state. e.g. In 2023, Our lab received blood test requests for 1.2 million patients (please amend with actual number if known) If not known, please estimate the number. a. Less than 500,000 b. 500,000 – 1,000,000 c. 1,000,000 – 2,500,000 d. 2,500,000 – 5,000,000 e. >5,000,000 | |
| Answer To Question 4: 687883 | |
| Question Number 5: . Roughly what % of blood tests arrive from Primary Care and Secondary care respectively? Primary Care X% Secondary Care X% | |
| Answer To Question 5: 50:50 | |
| Question Number 6: Roughly what % of all total blood tests arriving to your reception need re-labelling so that the barcodes can be read by the analyser? | |
| Answer To Question 6: <5% | |
| Question Number 7: . Roughly what % of blood tubes that arrive from Primary or Secondary Care need to be re-labelled so that the barcodes can be read by the analyser. Primary Care: X% need to be re-labelled before analysis Secondary Care: X% need to be re-labelled before analysis | |
| Answer To Question 7: Primary care approx. 5% Secondary care approx. 1% | |
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