General Practitioners
(asked on 9th March 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will bring forward proposals to give GPs greater access to hospital diagnostic tests and specialist tests.
This question was answered on 16th March 2015
Arrangements are already in place locally to enable general practitioners to have direct access to appropriate tests to support the primary investigation of disease in all areas of diagnostic tests.
A significant proportion of the work undertaken by pathology laboratories and imaging services is associated with direct access from primary care.