Blood analyzer for determining an analyte

The invention relates to a blood analysis apparatus (2) comprising a housing body (4), with a a plurality of puncturing elements (10) having blood sampling device (8), with a plurality of test means (14) for the analysis of a minimum amount of blood, with an evaluation electronics comprehensive evaluation device and a display device (6) which form a manageable as a single unit complete system, wherein the housing body (4) an operative position associated (30) of a respective lancing element (10) pricking position (12) for applying a skin surface of a user comprising wherein a plurality of test means (14) and pricking elements (10) in the device can be used which can be brought to perform multiple measurements into a working position one after the other (30), wherein, in positioning a lancing element (10) in its working position (30) the lancing element (10) skin surface of a user in the piercable applied at the pricking position (12) and can reach emerging from the skin surface blood to a test means (14), characterized in that a vacuum generating device (18) is provided, by means of which the already immediately before the execution or simultaneously with the execution or immediately after execution lancing operation to support the recovery of a minimal quantity of blood, a negative pressure can be applied to the skin surface.