🧪 Blood Test Results

💷 How much is this worth to me?

This template is not linked to QOF or any incentive scheme directly, but it plays an important role in:

• Ensuring a complete and accurate clinical record

• Supporting practices who wish to manually enter or tidy blood test results

• Allowing retrospective entry of paper or secondary care results into structured fields

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📊 High-level overview of the specification requirements

There are no formal NHS specifications for this template. It simply offers a structured method for manual entry of blood test results into the patient record when results are not received electronically.

Common use cases include:

• Adding hospital results that were not filed via pathology links

• Recording results shared verbally or on paper (e.g. out-of-hours, private provider)

• Documenting bloods taken elsewhere

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📌 What do you need to know?

The template presents a long list of standard blood tests, each with free-text or numeric entry boxes.

You can record values for:

• Haematology (e.g. FBC, WBC, platelets)

• Renal function (e.g. eGFR, creatinine, urea)

• Liver function (e.g. ALT, ALP, bilirubin)

• Bone profile

• Lipid profile

• HbA1c

• Thyroid function

• Inflammatory markers

• Vitamin and mineral levels (e.g. B12, folate, vitamin D)

• And many more...

There are no required fields — simply record the results you need.

Each result is stored as a structured data entry, using SNOMED codes where applicable, enabling searches and recalls to pick them up.

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💡 Hints and Tips

• Use this when adding results, such as those from:

  • Hospital clinics

  • Private health checks

  • GP federation services

  • Walk-in centres or urgent care

• These entries will count toward QOF and other KPIs if coded correctly (e.g. HbA1c or eGFR values)

• Always double-check units and reference ranges — these are not automatically applied

• Consider adding a free-text comment if values are approximate or transcribed from paper