Phlebotomy, Adult: Wood Green CDC

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Wood Green CDC offers an appointment-only adult phlebotomy service. 

  • Opening hours: Monday to Friday 8.30am-4.30pm, Saturday 9am-4.30pm

All blood samples are processed by the Whittington Health (WH) pathology and North Middlesex (NMUH) pathology teams, which gives the teams better oversight and ensures that results are easier to share with practices. To receive results directly, practices must be set up as a trading partner on EMIS. For support with this and for results email whh-tr.pathology@nhs.net and nmuh.sra@hslpathology.com

WH continues to provide phlebotomy services across Haringey and Islington.

See Resources for the full CDC clinical model and for the phlebotomy referral and reporting pathway.

Booking an appointment

The service would appreciate your support with encouraging patients who can, to book their appointments online as this helps the CDC to improve waiting times and reduce the possibility of overcrowding. 

SwiftQueue allows patients to see appointment times, make a booking at a time of their choice, reschedule, and cancel their appointments at the Wood Green CDC.

Attending an appointment

Patients are kindly requested to arrive at the Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) no earlier than five minutes prior to their scheduled appointment time. It is important that patients arrive punctually, as late arrivals may result in delays or rescheduling of their appointment.

For all booking queries 

t: 0207 2885626

To support learning, the CDC wants to hear from primary care colleagues.

Your feedback will be used to gain deeper insights into what is working well, what is challenging and improve the service for staff and patients.

You can give your feedback via: 

The CDC encourages you to use suggestions from the Wood Green CDC service feedback document (see Downloads).

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusions

  • adult patients aged 16+
  • ambulant or partially ambulant patients.
    • the CDC can accommodate patients who can move in and out of a wheelchair independently or with minimal assistance. A hoist is available at the CDC but patients should be advised to bring their own sling if possible.

Exclusions

  • patients not registered with an NCL GP
  • transport patients

How to Refer

Swiftqueue or by telephone

Telephone

020 7288 5626

Patients are able to schedule their own appointments by telephone and must bring their blood test referral forms to the appointment.

Once an ICE request has been created or a patient has been given a blood request form, practices can send patients a text message via Accurx with a link to book an appointment.

Swiftqueue

https://www.swiftqueue.co.uk

Patients are able to schedule their own appointments via Swiftqueue.

Practices registered on SwiftQueue can directly book all blood test appointments for their patients. 

Urgent slots are available daily for urgent same-day bloods. 

  • Monday-Friday, 8.30am-4.30pm
  • Saturday, 9am-4.30pm

Reminder: For EMIS-requested blood tests, patients need to collect and bring their blood test referral forms to their appointment at the CDC. Download the GP Swiftqueue booking guide for more information.

EMIS form

Referral methods: e-RS

Booking phlebotomy appointments at the CDC via e-RS

  • once in e-RS, practices should choose diagnostic pathology selecting specialty 'blood test'
  • practices should inform the patient of the generated UBRN and password, along with the booking telephone line and online weblink. The patient can then book their appointment time
  • do not select 'defer to provider' when initiating the appointment process for your patients
  • there is no need to email a blood test form
  • patients can book an appointment AFTER the request form has been sent

Sending SunQuest ICE (Clinisys) forms to Whittington Health

At Haringey and Islington practices where SunQuest ICE is installed, please continue to request blood tests for your patients via SunQuest ICE. The CDC accepts blood requests via TQuest, however, the blood request form must be printed for the patient to bring along with them.

Once an ICE request has been created or a patient has been given a blood request form, practices can send patients a text message via Accurx with a link to book an appointment.

For more information on how to use the system, visit the SunQuest ICE page.

Locations

Wood Green Community Diagnostic Centre

Ground Floor (Units 51 - 53), The Mall, 159 High Road, Wood Green, London N22 6YQ

Service Feedback

Wood Green CDC

woodgreencdc.whitthealth@nhs.net 020 3074 2680

Downloads

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Review date: Friday, 28 August 2026