NCL Multiprofessional Lab Results Programmes
NCL Training Hub developed two multi-professional learning series focused on lab results:
1) Introduction to Understanding Results Series
2) Interpreting Common Lab Results Series
Introduction to Understanding Results Series
This multiprofessional learning group comprised of 7 interactive sessions that helped staff with a basic understanding of:
1. What blood tests tell us
2. Why we do them
3. Who needs them, and
4. When we need them
Session Objectives:
1. Be able to explain why tests are indicated for patients in patient-friendly language.
2. Signpost patients to appropriate resources and the right clinician for support.
Session Resources
Resources:
IBS
Coeliac Disease
Resources:
NHS website: Vitamin D - NHS
Patient info: Vitamin D Deficiency: Symptoms, Causes, and Treatment
British Thyroid Foundation Thyroid function tests
NCL website:
Right test right time - Right Test Right Time: Diagnostic blood test resource - NCL ICB General Practice Website
Vitamin D maintenance- patient information sheet
Royal Osteoporosis society: ros-vitamin-d-supplements-and-tests-fact-sheet-december-2018.pdf
Plant based health professionals (particularly useful for advice about vegan supplements: Vitamin-D-factsheet-FINAL.pdf
Interpreting Common Lab Results Series
Session Objectives:
1. Better understand how to interpret abnormal lab tests and potential actions to be taken as a result.
2. Feel more confident in discussing results of tests with patients.
3. Use lab results more effectively to inform your clinical management.