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Lister House Staple Tye Harlow Essex CM18 7LU Tel. 0844 576 9010

Blood Tests

Please take the request form from your doctor with you.

Results can take up to 7 working days. Please do not telephone for results as the staff cannot give them over the telephone.

Location	Days	Times	Notes
Lister Medical Centre for registered patients only	Monday to Thursday	11:00 to 12:40	Appointment required Telephone 0844 576 9010 option 2 For registered patients only
	Monday	08:05 to 09:30
	Tuesday	09:40 to 10:40
	Thursday	08:50 to 09:45
	Friday	08:30 to 09:25
Princess Alexandra Hospital, Harlow	Monday to Friday	07:00 to 16:30	No appointment required except for children (see below)
St. Margaret's Hospital, Epping	Monday to Friday	08:30 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
Rectory Lane, Loughton	Monday to Friday	10:30 to 11:45
Keyheath Medical Centre, Waltham Abbey	Monday, Thursday and Friday	08:30 to 11:00
Love Lane Social Club, Ongar	Tuesday and Wednesday	09:00 to 11:30

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 (with request form) before 14:00 weekdays, or the pathology laboratory at the hospital by 16:00.

Stools - must label bottle

Blue top bottle available from surgery; small scoop of faeces. Deliver directly to hospital with request form.

Sputum - must label bottle

Wide pot available from surgery. Cough up sputum, not saliva. Deliver to surgery (with request form) by 2.00pm weekdays, or hospital by 4.00pm.

Radiology

X-Rays

Results can take up to 10 working days to come back.

No appointment is necessary.

You must 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 19:45
St. Margaret's Hospital, Epping On Wednesday 28th December the department will close at 16:30.	Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday	08:00 to 16:30
	Wednesday	08:00 to 19:45
Herts and Essex Hospital, Bishop's Stortford	Monday to Friday	09:00 to 12:30 and 14:00 to 16:30
The Tower Clinic, Hoddesdon	Monday to Friday	09:00 to 12:00 and 14:00 to 16:00

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.

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.