Phlebotomy (Blood Tests) Pathology Department

All routine blood tests are by a pre-booked appointments.

You can access the blood test appointment booking system 24 hours a day, 7 days a week online. You will require your NHS number to book a blood test appointment.  Calling our telephone booking service will not provide preferential bookings for routine bloods tests.

If you are unable to attend a pre-booked blood test appointment or no longer need or want your blood taken, please reschedule or cancel your appointment, as required, using the online booking system.  Thank you.  This will release the appointment back into the booking system. 

If you have already been given a paper blood test request form, please ensure you bring it this with you to your appointment. 

Where can I find my NHS Number? 

  • NHS Hospital or GP Practice letter
  • Prescription
  • NHS Website
  • NHS app

Book online

    Cancel or reschedule your appointment

 

 

Online appointments are available at the following locations; Corby Outpatients, Isebrook Outpatients, Wellingborough, North Northants Council Office, Kettering and Nene Park Outpatients, Irthlingborough.

 Appointment slots at Kettering General Hospital Pathology Department are limited and reserved for patients requiring specialist blood tests, urgent hospital and urgent GP appointments only. To book an appointment here please ring 01536 494411 between 8.00am and 4.00pm, Monday to Friday (excluding bank holidays).    

We continue to see an increased demand for blood taking leading to longer wait times for routine appointments. Please continue to use the   online booking system . To book a blood test appointment you will require your NHS number. 

The online blood test appointment booking is a live system.   It is frequently updated as new appointments are released and when appointments are cancelled. Please do keep checking the system. 

Our telephone booking service can be extremely busy.   Leading to longer than expected waiting times when calling.   Our team are doing what they can to answer the many calls, as quickly as possible.

Children's Blood Test appointments

To book a blood test for a child, under 15 years of age, please visit Children's Phlebotomy. 

Glucose Tolerance Test appointments

To make an appointment for a Glucose Tolerance Test (GTT) please telephone 01536 492694 between 9am and 4 pm, Monday to Friday (excluding bank holidays).

Urgent Blood Test

Urgent adult's blood test

If you need an urgent adult blood test for pre-Chemotherapy, Anticoagulation tests or are a patient needing a blood test 48 hours before admission for a planned operation, you can use the walk-in service at any of our following sites:
This service is not available at North Northants Council, Bowling Green Road, Kettering who do not accept walk-in patients.

Urgent children's blood test

If you need an urgent children's blood test for pre-Chemotherapy, Anticoagulation tests or are a patient needing a blood test 48 hours before admission for a planned operation, you can use the walk-in service at Kettering General Hospital Pathology Department. This walk-in service is available 8.00 am to 4.00pm, Monday to Friday (excluding bank holidays).    

Urgent GP blood test

For a trial period, if you have been referred for an urgent blood test by your GP and they have marked the request form as urgent in the last 2 working days, you can attend one of the clinics listed below as a walk-in blood test.  

Thirty walk-in appointment slots will be available each weekday afternoon at each of the below sites, urgent GP blood tests.  This will be given on a first come first served basis.  Patients may have to wait to be seen at busy times. Patients with a pre-booked appointment time may be seen before a walk-in patient. 

If all afternoon walk-in slots are filled at the above locations, you have the option to visit the Pathology Department at Kettering General Hospital; please be aware that the last bleed being completed by 4.00pm; Monday to Friday, excluding bank holidays.  In exceptional circumstances you may not be seen the same day and be placed on the list of walk-ins for the next working day.  Please be aware that using the walk-in service patients may have to wait longer than patients with pre-booked appointments.  At peak times there may be a lengthy wait. 

Nene Park, Irthlingborough between 1.00pm and 3.00pm, Monday to Friday excluding bank holidays. 
Outpatients Nuffield Diagnostic Centre, Corby between 1.00pm and 3.00pm, Monday to Friday excluding bank holidays. 

Specialist Blood Tests

There are some specialist blood tests that must be taken at our Pathology Department at Kettering General Hospital, including the following tests:
 
ACTH (Adrenocorticotophic hormone)
ADAMTS 13
Aldosterone
Ammonia NH3
Anti-Thrombin / Thrombophilia
Anti Xa
C Peptide & Insulin
Calcitonin
Chemotheraphy
Chromogranin A & B
Cold Agglutinins
Cryoglobulins (Before 16:00)
Cryofibrogen 
Lupus Anticoagulant
FSHD
Gastrin
Glucagon
Gut Hormones (or Intestinal Hormones or Intestinal Polypeptides or VIP)
Heparin Assay (Xa)
Heparin Induced Thrombocytopenia (HIT)
Hexokinase
Homocysteine
Insulin
Malarial Parasites
Metanephrine
Oxygen dissociation
Platelet nucleotides
Renin
TCR Gene rearrangement studies
Von Willebrand’s Disease (VWS)
White Cell Enzymes
Zinc