1- Are MTWNHS Trust outpatients currently entitled to an electronic copy of their own blood analysis results?
2- Outpatient Care – Please provide me with an electronic copy of your said policy, SOP and /or framework within the Trust, which explains how the communication of laboratory/blood test results to out-patients by telephone or e mail are set out.
3- Following a request by the outpatient’s clinician or his/her team to take bloods for analysis, what is the mechanism to ensure that any unexpected or urgent findings within a patient’s blood analysis are clearly articulated to those out-patients within a reasonable time?
4- Has there been a change or amendment in policy within the Trust in last three months, or a series of meetings concerning the disclosure of personal information, namely the release of laboratory blood results to patients outside the hospital setting, both by electronic means and by way of telephone calls?
5- If there has been a meeting or a series of meetings in this regard, can you please provide me with an electronic copy of the agendas, as well as the full minutes for such recent meetings within the MTWNHS Trust?
6- Was the outcome at this meeting or meetings to cease forthwith sending out, or handing out electronic blood result analysis to out-patients recorded as an official decision in the meeting minutes?
7- Further to Point 6, can you please provide me with a copy of this decision and rationale behind such a decision, along with any policy impact assessment or evaluation that was conducted to change the blood disclosure regime to out-patients in the community?
8- If the decision at this meeting(s), or at the conclusion of any subsequent ‘actions’ arising from this meeting or subsequent meetings to prohibit/ block electronic laboratory blood results from being sent out or handed to out-patients, can I kindly have a copy of any alternative arrangements that have been considered to pass such blood analysis to patients, or reasons why these options were not viable and not implemented?

Disclosure of blood results to Trust Out-Patients.300623.docx