Barking and Dagenham CHD Service business continuity planning arrangements have been reviewed and in line with the staffing that they have available to them the service currently remains in business continuity.
NELFT are now accepting referrals from the acute services at BHRUT and Barts Health; however they still need to restrict access via the primary care referrals at this moment in time.
As part of their business continuity actions they will continue to manage the patients currently registered to the service. Their priority is to ensure that these patients are able to receive timely advice and intervention; they are running some additional clinics and providing telephone support as part of this mitigation.
Additionally they may need to escalate patients to 111/GP/ED as necessary. They will continue with the additional GPwSI clinics. They are in the process of securing some additional specialist Cardiac nursing support to cover their current vacancies and they anticipate that this will come into action in February (week commencing 17th February) when those staff can commence employment.
Should you have any queries please contact:
Service lead: Pavita Lall on 0300 300 1762
or
ICD office: Tel: 0300 555 1201 ext. 65075
Follow this link to read the letter from ICD for B&D services
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