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Referral Information

Please use the Choose and Book system for all non-urgent referrals.

 

Choose and Book

Choose and Book is a national electronic booking service which gives patients a choice of place, date and time for their first outpatient appointment in a hospital or clinic. Patients can choose their hospital or clinic, and then book their appointment to see a specialist with a member of the practice team at the GP surgery, or at home by telephone or over the internet at a time more convenient to them.

 

Many of our services are accessible via Choose and Book, as listed in the A-Z of Clinical Services section of the website, and more are added regularly. For further details on using the Choose & Book system, please contact your PCT Choose & Book lead.

  

Exceptions are:

  • If you have a medical patient requiring secondary care please refer them direct to our Acute Assessment Unit rather than sending them to the emergency department. The AAU is run by the acute physicians and has consultant presence throughout the day. Patients should be referred to the medical registrar: Dial hotline 07717 150658 or use bleep 393 via the hospital switchboard (0208 560 2121).

 

  • If your patient needs to be seen under the ‘Two Week Wait rule’ please use the West London Cancer Network proformas (available to download at www.nwlcn.nhs.uk/cancer-referrals.htm) and attach to the Choose and Book referral within 24 hours. ENT, Gynaecology and Chest 'Two Week Wait' appointments are not currently available via Choose and Book. In these cases please fax the referral to 020 8321 5157.  

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  • Antenatal clinical assessment services are available on Choose and Book. (Bookings are made into dummy appointments and times.) Patients will be contacted with their actual appointment time and date. Please refer to teh service note on Choose and Book.

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  • TIA referrals should be completed on the form below.  If the patients ABCD2 score is greater than 4 or they have had 2 or more TIA attacks within 1 week or they are on anticoagulation treatment, the patient should be sent to A/E and this should be faxed immediately to A&E on 020 8321 2516. More information can be found at:
    http://nwlcn-stroke.co.uk/

 

Hounslow GPs 

Please refer via the Referral Facilitation Service (RFS).

NHS Hounslow extranet for relevant proformas.

Forms should be emailed via hounslow.rfs@nhs.net or faxed to 0845 600 8489. Practice enquiries: Tel 05511 434910.

 

Fit for Surgery Checklist

(Endorsed by Department of Health in partnership with the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement, NHS Improvement and the NHS Cancer Action Team.)

 

The most frequent problems picked up in our Pre-operative Assessment Department which may result in a patient’s surgery having to be delayed are:

  • Anaemia: Hb (<12 in women & <13 in men) have more adverse outcomes

  • Sub-optimally controlled hypertension

  • Sub-optimally controlled diabetes mellitus (HbA1c >8.0)

  • Other sub-optimally treated chronic conditions such as ischaemic heart disease, undiagnosed atrial fibrillation, heart failure, and COPD

 

To prevent delays and enhance patient experience whilst reducing complications, remember to use the fit for surgery checklist which should be completed before referring any patient for surgery and the information included in the referral.

 

 

 

Where the services below are listed on Choose and Book, those forms will be found within the Directory of Services for that speciality.