You may be asked by the GP or Nurse to contact the surgery for your results. If you have online access, you will be able to log in and view your results in your medical record and see the Doctors comments.

To register for online access, please see reception with photo ID.

The time taken for results to come through can vary depending on the test. If you have an extremely abnormal result, we will contact you directly otherwise we do not routinely contact patients with test results due to the workload that this would involve.

Please contact the surgery after 10.00am for your test result, we are very busy the first part of the morning booking appointments. You may be asked to see the Doctor or Nurse for your results.

FOR TESTS DONE IN A HOSPITAL APPOINTMENT OR REQUESTED BY A CONSULTANT, IT IS ADVISED THAT YOU RING THE HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT AS GP'S ARE NOT ALWAYS NOTIFIED OF RESULTS

BLOOD TEST- usually are received by the requesting clinician within 48 hours. If an allergy screen these can take up to 2 weeks.

URINE TEST- usually are received by the requesting clinican within 48 hours.

SWABS- all swabs are usually received by the requesting clinician within 7-10 days.

NAIL CLIPPINGS- nail clipping results are received within 7-10 days.

CT SCANS/X-RAYS/MRI SCANS- results are received by the requesting clinician within 4-6 weeks.