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Blood: Screening

Volume 457: debated on Monday 5 March 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many primary care trusts operate community blood test clinics; (118046)

(2) which primary care trusts have moved blood testing services from community-based clinics to hospital facilities.

This information is not collected centrally. The provision of phlebotomy services (where patients give blood samples for testing) is a matter for the national health service to decide locally in the light of clinically appropriate practice and efficient service delivery.