Article: Blood tests axe will hit hundreds; EXCLUSIVE HEALTH: Community service is being used by 800 patients a week.(News)

Article: Blood tests change will hit us both hard; CUTBACK: ...
Coventry Evening Telegraph (England);  January 17, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... a decision to scrap blood tests at their community ... Remembrance Road for vital blood tests for the past three ... now cash-strapped Coventry Teaching Primary Care Trust ... turning up for their blood tests. PCT director of primary ...

Article: BLOOD TESTS RETHINK; FURORE: Decision to axe local ...
Coventry Evening Telegraph (England);  February 2, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... staff to take blood tests. Health bosses ... forward with Coventry Teaching Primary Care ... executive of Coventry Teaching Primary Care ... February. Coventry Teaching Primary Care ... queuing for blood tests at Coventry ...

Article: BLOOD TESTS RETHINK.(News)
Coventry Evening Telegraph (England);  February 2, 2007 ;     700+ words ...BLOOD tests could be brought back ... hospital staff to take blood tests. Health bosses at the ... agree a way forward with Coventry Teaching Primary Care Trust and ... joint chief executive of Coventry Teaching Primary Care Trust ...

Article: All blood tests to be done at hospital; HEALTH: ...
Coventry Evening Telegraph (England);  January 11, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... all over the city. Coventry Teaching Primary Care Trust ... waiting time for home blood tests was three weeks ... of primary care for Coventry Teaching PCT, said pressure ... placed upon them." Blood tests can be done at the ...

Article: GET YOUR BLOOD TESTS AT TESCO; HEALTH RETHINK: ...
Coventry Evening Telegraph (England);  March 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... community blood clinics. Coventry Teaching Primary Care Trust, which ... the city centre, for their blood tests. But pensioners and cancer ... to the committee insists blood tests at hospitals were a short ... would prefer to have their blood tests taken at their GP's ...

Article: Nurse steps into the breach over axed blood tests; ...
Coventry Evening Telegraph (England);  January 25, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... forced out of a job when Coventry Teaching Primary Care Trust controversially ... clinics, where people can get blood tests done for a small fee. Mrs ... travel that distance for her blood tests and I thought starting my ... Hospital, Walsgrave, for blood tests, or a unit on ...

Article: Outcry leads to U-turn on blood tests; NEW SERVICE: ...
Coventry Evening Telegraph (England);  January 28, 2008 ;     690 words ... ... the first cities in the UK to offer blood tests in GP surgeries, health centres and ... Attwood, joint chief executive of Coventry Teaching Primary Care Trust, said: "Coventry ... want to travel across the city for blood tests.