Requesting, tracking, reviewing, actioning and communicating test and investigation results, with robust failsafe systems and clear clinician responsibility for abnormal findings
This policy is fully drafted and structured, ready to brand and complete for your service. It covers:
1. Purpose
2. Scope
3. Policy statement and principles
4. Definitions
5. Requesting tests and investigations
6. Tracking, logging and failsafe systems
7. Receiving, reviewing and acknowledging results
8. Acting on abnormal and critical results
9. Communicating results to patients
10. Results for patients who do not attend, decline or transfer care
11. Records, data protection and retention
12. Roles and responsibilities
13. Training
14. Monitoring, audit and review
15. Related documents
16. Glossary
17. References
Legislation & standards it maps to
Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014 - in particular Regulation 9 (Person-centred care), Regulation 11 (Need for consent), Regulation 12 (Safe care and treatment), Regulation 17 (Good governance) and Regulation 20 (Duty of candour)
Care Quality Commission (Registration) Regulations 2009 - in particular Regulation 18 (Notification of other incidents)
UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018
All registered managers, prescribers, clinicians (medical, nursing, dental and non-medical), clinical support staff, administrators, reception and secretarial staff, locums, students and contractors of [Organisation Name]
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