Online booking for blood collection comes to Bayers Road, Spryfield and Tantallon

By CityNews Halifax Staff

Posted Sep 24, 2020 06:29:47 PM.

NEWS RELEASE
NOVA SCOTIA HEALTH
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Nova Scotia Health continues to expand its online appointment booking service. This system currently includes the ability to book blood collection appointments at Woodlawn Medical Centre and Dartmouth General Hospital in Dartmouth, Lloyd E. Matheson Centre in Elmsdale, and Colchester East Hants Health Centre in Truro. Upcoming expansion will include IWK Health. 

On Sept. 25, online booking will become available for appointments at:
• Aberdeen Blood Collection in New Glasgow
• Bayers Road Blood Collection in Halifax
• Eastern Kings Memorial Community Health Centre Blood Collection in Wolfville
• Spryfield Blood Collection in Halifax
• St. Margaret’s Bay Blood Collection

Patients wishing to book blood collection appointments online at these locations or other existing locations noted above can visit https://booking.nshealth.ca as of Sept. 25.

The expansion of online appointment booking will continue in phases, with a few locations being introduced at a time. The first phases of expansion will focus primarily on blood collection, with diagnostic imaging, including X-ray, to follow. Additional locations will continue to be added to the online booking service over the coming weeks and months. 

As new blood collection locations are added to the online booking service for Nova Scotia Health, these changes will be reflected in the locations listings on the blood collection website: http://www.nshealth.ca/blood-collection. 

As online appointment booking is introduced for diagnostic imaging at Nova Scotia Health, more information will be available at http://www.nshealth.ca/diagnostic-imaging.

As services are introduced at the IWK, these will be reflected on the IWK website at http://www.iwk.nshealth.ca/  

Patients without internet access will continue to be able to make blood collection or X-ray appointments by phone. Phone numbers for booking remain the same as previous and can be found by location at http://www.nshealth.ca/blood-collection

Nova Scotia Health and IWK Health are partnering to offer this secure online booking service.
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