Getting your test results
If your test results show that you need more tests or treatment, we will contact you. You often will have a follow-up slot booked already.
Once a doctor has reviewed your test results, you can view them:
- in your NHS account (through the NHS website or NHS App)
- in your Patient Access account
Normal results requiring no or no immediate action will usually have a comment by the clinician who has viewed them (e.g. ‘immune’/’stable’/’improved’) to help you.
We will only give test results to the patient who had the test. Reception staff are allowed to tell you that a result has been marked as normal or not requiring action, but they cannot discuss them in any more detail than this. If the doctor has asked to see you after the test has been done, please keep your appointment, even if the result is showing as ‘normal’ via your medical record viewer.
Do not be alarmed if you are told that the doctor wants to see you to discuss your results – this does not normally mean that there is something seriously wrong!
We will always tell you if we need to see you urgently.