Yesterday SydPath confirmed that greater than 400 folks have been incorrectly suggested they’d examined unfavourable to COVID when the truth is they’d examined optimistic.
As quickly as SydPath turned conscious of the difficulty it instantly commenced a course of to contact these impacted.
This morning SydPath can affirm that each one folks inside this group have been contacted and suggested of their optimistic end result.
The emergency response group investigating the reason for this error, has now recognized roughly 995 extra folks, examined on 23 and 24 December, have been prematurely despatched an SMS advising them their take a look at was unfavourable when the truth is their true end result had not but been decided.
All of those folks have been contacted and suggested of the error. They’ve been suggested they’ll obtain their correct take a look at outcomes by tonight (Monday).
As soon as once more, we’re sincerely sorry for this error and acknowledge the numerous impression it has had on these concerned.
We have now recognized what occurred and might affirm it was associated to a selected human error.
SydPath have put procedures in place to make sure this can not occur once more.
This occasion comes at a time of unprecedented COVID-testing exercise and SydPath’s folks, as with all pathology groups all through NSW, are working across the clock to reply.”
