Sample Test Results

If a Doctor or Nurse request that you hand in a sample, ensure that your sample has your details clearly written on it and leave it in our collection bin, just inside the front door of the Surgery. Please note our samples are collected at 10.30am each day.

Our sample testing is mainly done in the Laboratory at the Balfour Hospital. However other testing is carried out in Aberdeen or further afield. Most local testing is returned within a week, however some test results can take much longer to return. 

Our practice protocol is to contact patients with results if further action is required, for example an appointment or repeat test. If nothing further is necessary then we will not contact you. If you wish to contact the surgery to ask for your results then please allow 7 days before contacting us.

It is your responsibility to check your results and to make an appointment to discuss them with a clinician if you are advised to do so.

The practice has a strict policy regarding confidentiality and data protection. We will only release test results to the person to whom they relate until that person has given prior permission for the release of the results to someone else if they are not able to understand the results.