DOCTORS have been ordered to stop non-essential blood tests as they face a global shortage of key equipment.
NHS England guidance to GPs and hospital doctors, issued yesterday, called for the rationing of tests across the health service until shortages of key test tubes are resolved.
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Vit D tests are already restricted. My GP said she couldn't get me one unless she lied on the form. They are now only available for seriously at risk patients not just at risk. Sent off for mine privately as PMRPROs recommendation for lab testing kits. Anyone ever use the home kits which give a result at home rathe than in the lab? Are they accurate?
Well that means only SOME blood tests are affected - what's short, heparin? EDTA? And some tests are done on serum - gained from clotted blood (taken and put in a plain tube. Dear me - they might even have to get old-fashioned and play with testtubes
Exactly and given how hard it is to get any sort of treatment for any condition not just SLE it’s clear that GPs don’t and won’t do any thing THEY consider nonessential 😠
Indeed you would but my ever so slightly cynical hat suggests that thems' in power might, just possibly, have a different idea about what is non-essential
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