Help us ensure that fewer hospital appointments at Barts Health NHS Trust are wasted. If patients miss two appointments without telling us, they may be discharged back to the GP.
All Age ENT and Audiology pathways – Tower Hamlets
Routine and Urgent ENT
All patients from 5 years refer to community ENT service (provided by Communities). The community service will clinically review all GP referrals within 72 hours and determine the appropriate pathway. If it is evident during triage that a patient needs secondary care ENT, Communities will make the onward referral to secondary care.
All patients under 5 years refer directly to secondary care.
All patients of any age who require a 2WW referral refer to secondary care.
Audiology
All adults, email audiology using EMIS referral form
Under 16 years: email audiology using EMIS referral form
Emergency ENT
For emergency care for patients aged under 16 years send letter via email to bartshealth.paediatricentpcs@nhs.net or contact on-call doctor via switchboard
For emergency care for all patients aged 16 years upwards refer via e-RS to the ENT Emergency RAS clinic at Royal London (Service ID 7944253)
City and Hackney Sexual and Reproductive Health Services Overview 2024
Here are resources for sexual and reproductive health for City & Hackney
The NHS Discharge Medicines Service (DMS) is a new nationally commissioned essential service that all community pharmacy contractors have to provide. The aim of the service is to improve the communication of changes to a patient’s medication when they leave hospital, to prevent harm from medicines, reduce readmissions and to improve patients outcomes. Trusts (Acute, Mental Health, Community) will identify appropriate patients and refer them to their usual or preferred community pharmacy on discharge with information about medication changes made in hospital.
Community pharmacist have been commissioned to provide a new NHS Discharge Medicine Service, which is being rolled out locally across Tower Hamlets, Newham and Waltham Forest (TNW). A joint working group has been working on the implementation and the service will be rolled out gradually from all Trusts across North East London (NEL) from July 2021.
These are legacy formularies which have been superseded by the fully published North East London Joint Formulary -netformulary https://www.nel-jointformulary.nhs.uk/ . The legacy formulary information should not be used as these are no longer kept up-to-date.
North East London (NEL) is in the process of harmonising the existing formularies in-use across NEL onto a single NEL-wide electronic formulary. The new NEL electronic formulary is expected to be launched by the end of 2024.
Users can access the full version of the City & Hackney/Homerton formulary, however, this formulary has not been updated since April 2024 and will not be updated further.
Please refer to the NEL Formulary and Pathways Group (FPG) decision log for formulary updates made since October 2022.
Patients can access a schemes for minor eye conditions that is currently running in City & Hackney, Islington, Newham, Tower Hamlets, and Waltham Forest. Find out more information and dedicated pages on each area from this site:
REMINDER: Change to referring to the Homerton Allergy Service
Dear Practice Managers and GPs,
Homerton Hospital has asked us to send a reminder about the change in its allergy service as they are receiving few referrals.
Please remember that referral to Homerton Allergy service is via Advice and Refer option only on eRS – please let practice referral admin teams know as appropriate. You can continue to refer to the service but, in many cases, you may get management advice rather than conversion to a referral. It is therefore important that you include a full history and details of any treatment already undertaken over what time periods.
Full details and further information on the Advice and Refer service is available on the GP website. In addition, please see the following attached:
GP handbook
Notification letter
A&R quick guide
Patient leaflet – standard size and large print
With Warmest Regards,
City and Hackney Communications and Engagement Team