Trust contacting thousands of patients over blood test results issue

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

By Sarah Lowden

A hospital trust is contacting 11,000 patients to ask them to repeat a blood test, after some patients may have received incorrect results.

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust said it had experienced an “intermittent issue” with its HbA1c blood test analysing machines in the Luton and Dunstable University Hospital laboratory, and some results may have been potentially higher than actual.