Blood tests
Community-based sessions – GP surgeries
The Trust’s phlebotomists support phlebotomy services in virtually every GP practice within East and North Hertfordshire. 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, 8.00am 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.
