Blood tests

Community-based sessions – GP surgeries

If you need a blood test, you may find it easier and quicker to contact your local surgery to find out when phlebotomy sessions are held there.

Community-based sessions – walk-in (i.e. no appointment needed)

No appointments are needed to attend these phlebotomy sessions:

Hoddesdon

Hoddesdon health centre

• Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 2.00pm (excluding bank holidays)

Ware

Bowling Road health centre

• Monday, 1.30 to 3.45pm (excluding bank holidays)
• Wednesday, 8.30 to 12.00pm
• Friday, 8.30am to 12.00pm (excluding bank holidays)

Community-based sessions – appointment only

Appointments are needed to attend these phlebotomy sessions:

Baldock

Park Drive health centre (by appointment only via Baldock and Letchworth GP surgeries)

• Tuesday, 8.30am to 12.00pm
• Wednesday, 1.30 to 4.30pm
• Thursday, 8.30am to 12.00pm

Hitchin

Bedford Road health centre (by appointment only and then through just the following Hitchin GP surgeries: Marshall House, Orford Lodge, Portmill and Regal Chambers)

• Tuesday , 8.00am to 4.30pm

Stevenage

Danestrete clinic (by appointment only – appointments are made normally directly by nurses with patients attending anti-coagulation clinics)

• Mondays and Wednesdays only,  8.30 to 11.45am (excluding bank holidays)

Waltham Cross

Stanhope Road health centre (by appointment only, but through the health centre itself – 01992 818500)

• Monday to Friday , 8.30am to 12pm (excluding bank holidays)

Main hospital-based sessions – walk-in

No appointments are needed to attend any of these phlebotomy sessions:

Hertford County hospital

• Monday to Friday, 8.00am to 4.00pm (excluding bank holidays)
• Children 3-10 years will be fast tracked upon arrival*

Lister hospital

• Monday to Friday, 8.00am to 5.30pm (excluding bank holidays)
• Saturday, 8.45am to 12.45pm
• Children 1 to 10 years will be fast tracked upon arrival* (no children after 4pm)

NB. doors open at 7.30 weekdays and 8 am Saturdays to enable booking in before the start times above.

New QEII hospital

• Monday to Thursday, 8.00am to 5.30pm (excluding bank holidays)
• Friday, 8.00am to 5.00pm (excluding bank holidays)
• Saturday, 8.00am to 12.00pm
• Children 3-10 years will be fast tracked upon arrival. (no children after 4pm)

Please note: 

For blood tests for children under 1 year please call Lister Bramble ward on 01438 314333 ext 6315 (regardless of address)*We are unable to see children under the age of 10 at the Lister and New QEII clinics on Saturdays unless an urgent appointment has been pre-booked by their GP.