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Blood Tests
Please take the request form from your doctor with you.
Results usually take 7 days. Please do not telephone for results as the staff cannot give them over the telephone.
Values are given at the bottom of this page.
Please note that the Harlow Walk-In-Centre does not do blood tests.
| Location |
Days |
Times |
Notes |
Lister Medical Centre
for registered patients only |
Monday to Friday |
11:00 to 12:45 |
Appointment required
Telephone 0844 576 9010 option 2 |
| Wednesday and Friday |
08:15 to 10:00 |
| Princess Alexandra Hospital, Harlow |
Monday to Friday |
08:30 to 16:30 |
No appointment required except for children (see below) |
| St. Margaret's Hospital, Epping |
Monday to Friday |
09:00 to 16:00 |
No appointment required |
| Herts and Essex Hospital, Bishop's Stortford |
Monday to Friday |
08:30 to 16:30 |
No appointment required |
| The Tower Clinic, Hoddesdon |
Monday to Friday |
09:00 to 12:30 |
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| Rectory Lane, Loughton |
Monday to Friday |
10:30 to 11:45 |
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| Keyheath Medical Centre, Waltham Abbey |
Monday, Thursday and Friday |
08:30 to 11:00 |
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| War Memorial Hospital, Ongar |
Tuesday and Wednesday |
09:00 to 11:30 |
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Children's Blood Tests
A children's clinic for blood tests is held 14:00 to 14:30 Monday to Thursday at Princess Alexandra Hospital. You must make an appointment
on 01279 827030.
Children are seen in a special room in a stress free environment by a paediatrically trained phlebotomist.
Lipids (Fasting Blood Tests)
For this type of test, please do not have anything to eat or drink (except plain water) for 14 hours before the test.
Glucose Tolerance Test
Please telephone Princess Alexandra Hospital (01279 444455), pathology department, for instructions and the time of the appointment.
Bacteriology
Urine - MSU (Mid-stream specimen) - must label bottle
Red top bottle available from the surgery; fill to line. Deliver to surgery before 2.00pm weekdays, or the pathology laboratory at the hospital by
4.00pm.
Stools - must label bottle
Blue top bottle available from surgery; small scoop of faeces. Deliver directly to hospital with form.
Sputum - must label bottle
Wide pot available from surgery. Cough up sputum, not saliva. Deliver to surgery by 2.00pm weekdays, or hospital by 4.00pm.
Radiology
X-Rays
Results take 10 working days to come back.
No appointment is necessary.
Please take the request form from your doctor with you.
| Location |
Days |
Times |
| Princess Alexandra Hospital, Harlow |
Monday to Friday |
08:00 to 09:00 and 14:00 to 20:00 |
| St. Margaret's Hospital, Epping |
Monday to Wednesday and Friday |
09:00 to 16:30 |
| Thursday |
13:00 to 16:30 |
| Herts and Essex Hospital, Bishop's Stortford |
Monday to Wednesday and Friday |
09:00 to 16:30 |
| Thursday |
13:00 to 16:30 |
| The Tower Clinic, Hoddesdon |
Monday to Friday |
09:00 to 13:00 and 14:00 to 16:30 |
Your GP or your outpatient appointment will inform you that an X-ray is required. When you attend the Hospital please make sure that you bring the
request form with you.
On reporting to the X-ray reception on arrival you will be asked to take a seat. Depending on the demand on the service you can expect to be seen
within 30–45 minutes.
For X-rays of the main body you will be expected to remove certain items of clothes and put on a cotton gown.
The results will be available from your GP within two weeks.
Scans
The practice will forward the request form to Princess Alexandra Hospital and the X-ray department will contact you directly with the appointment.
Electrocardiography
ECG's available at the practice or a blue form will be issued by your doctor. You then take this directly to the ECG department at
Princess Alexandra Hospital. The ECG will be done and the results given to you to hand to your GP. No appointment is necessary.
Test Values
| Test |
Normal Values |
Comments |
| Iron |
10-28 micromol/L |
High: Haemolytic, megaloblastic and aplastic anaemias. Haemochromotosis
Low: Iron deficiency anaemia, infection, malignancy, hypothyroidism |
| Iron binding Capacity |
25-60 micromol/L |
High: Acute and chronic blood loss, iron deficiency anaemia, hepatitis, oral contraceptives.
Low: Anaemia of chronic diseases, cirrhosis, nephrosis, Haemochromotosis |
| Lipid Profile |
| Cholesterol-total |
3.1-6.5 |
High: Hypothyroidism, diabetes, obstructive jaundice, nephrosis
Low: Hyperthyroidism, infection, malnutrition, liver or heart failure |
| HDL cholesterol |
M: 1.0-1.6 mmol/L
F: 1.1-1.8 mmol/L |
High: Vigorous Exercise, alcohol, insulin, oestrogens
Low: Starvation, obesity, smoking, hypothyroidism, liver and renal disease |
| Triglycerides |
< 2 mmol/L |
High: Familial, liver disease, kidney disease, pancreatitis
Low: Malnutrition |
| Magnesium |
0.7-1.0 mmol/L |
High: Renal failure, hypothyroidism, dehydration, lithium toxicity, antacids, Addison's disease
Low: Hyperthyroidism, aldosteronism, diuretics, malabsorption, chronic dialysis |
| Phosphate |
0.8-1.6 mmol/L |
High: hypoparathyroidism, excess vit. D, secondary hyperparathyroidism, renal failure, bone disease,
Addison's disease
Low: hyperparathyroidism, alcoholism, diabetes, diuretics, vit. D deficiency |
| Prolactin |
< 350 mIU/L |
High: pituitary adenoma, breast feeding |
| PSA (prostate) |
< 4 ng/ml |
High: Prostate cancer, benign prostatic hypertrophy, prostatitis |
| SGOT (AST) |
< 42 IU/L |
High: Heart disease, MI, pancreatitis, liver disease, muscle damage, alcohol
Low: Vit. B6 deficiency, terminal liver failure |
| SGPT (ALT) |
< 35 IU/L |
High: Liver disease, renal disease, pancreatitis, alcohol, glandular fever
Low: Vit. B. deficiency |
| Troponin |
< 0.5 ng/ml |
High: MI and unstable angina
< 3: MI likely in last 7 days |
| Thyroid Function Tests |
High T4: Hyperthyroidism, and euthyroid states characterised by increased TBG
Low T4: Hypothyroidism, and euthyroid states characterised by decreased TBG
High TSH: hypothyroidism, drugs (lithium, amiodarone), liver disease, chronic renal failure
Low TSH: Excess thyroid medication, hyperthyroidism, thyroiditis, drugs (steroids, phenytoin, aspirin), secondary hypothyroidism |
| T4 |
9.5-22 pmol/L |
| T3 |
3.0-6.5 pmol/L |
| TSH |
0.3-5.5 mIU/L |
| Uric Acid |
0.17-0.4mmol/L |
High: Gout, renal failure, drugs (diuretics), hypothyroidism, chemotherapy, parathyroid diseases
Low: Drugs (allopurinol, probenecid), Wilson's disease, Fanconi's syndrome |
| Test |
Normal Values |
Comments |
Hormone Screen (Female)
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Follicular |
Mid-Cycle |
Luteal |
Post menopausal |
| LH (IU/L) |
1-12 |
16-79 |
1-10 |
44-77 |
| FSH (IU/L) |
3-12 |
8-20 |
1-9 |
35-150 |
| Oestradiol (pmol/L) |
110-752 |
422-1467 |
147-991 |
37-129 |
| Progesterone (nmol/L) |
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< 10 non ovulatory
10-30 ovulatory - inadequate
<30 ovulatory - adequate
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| Testosterone (nmol/L) |
0.5-3.0 |
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Follicular |
Mid-Cycle |
Luteal |
Post menopausal |
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