Hospitals must ration blood tests after issues with reagent supplier
by Denis Campbell and Sarah Boseley from Science | The Guardian on (#58VZK)
Urgent talks underway with chemical supplier Roche as non-urgent tests delayed
Hospitals across England are having to ration blood tests because of problems affecting one of the NHS's main suppliers of the chemicals needed to analyse them.
Many hospitals have begun limiting who can have a blood test in response to a serious shortage of reagents which are used in processing them. Those with the most pressing medical need are having their test but non-urgent tests are being delayed.
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