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<p>The National Health Service is taking action locally to improve the waiting times
for non-urgent blood tests. In order to create additional capacity, North East London
Foundation Trust increasing phlebotomy staffing levels through redeployment, recruitment,
staff bank and agency. Staff are being seconded from Barking, Havering and Redbridge
University Trust to provide additional capacity and a further eight administrators
are now in place to improve the booking service.</p><p>In Redbridge, three additional
blood testing clinics are already open and will now be extended until at least April
2021. Capacity will be used across the local system to help ensure patients are seen
at the sites with the shortest waiting times.</p>
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