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We aspire to speak to all young individuals
having cardiac screening because there’s a lot of anxiety
associated with screenings. Unfortunately, some of these
screening programmes are very large, involving 200 people on any
given day and it’s very difficult to have a detailed discussion
with a cardiologist if there are 200 people wanting the same
thing.
Currently, on the understanding that only 4%
of people that we screen will need further tests, we don’t say
anything to the 96% who are going to be normal but they do hear
from us within two or three weeks, in writing, to say that
everything’s alright.
We usually confine discussions about abnormal
results to those individuals in whom we feel there is a problem,
who live very far away and who may need local referral to a
cardiologist. Say if it’s Bournemouth, we may not bring them
all the way back to London, we’d want them referred, it’s just
to pre-warn them that they may be getting a letter suggesting
that further investigations are required.
For the people with normal investigations,
they hear in writing.
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