This update is being issued on a weekly basis so that you can be kept up to date and assured of our efforts and our proposals to address this issue on behalf of both our members and our patients.
Headlines
• 30% more redirected referrals than planned!
• DMC announce four more days of clinics for June!
Good news this week as our crucial redirects are really picking up pace. Last week, across BHR, we redirected 180 referrals to the new alternative services - 46 more than we had planned. Thank you GP colleagues for your help and please continue to send patients requiring referral to alternative providers as we identify more of them.
We have been working with practices in the borough - approved by NHSE for the Minor Surgery Directed Enhanced Service - to allow other practices to refer patients to them.
Please download this form to refer for the following:
Level 1 procedures - aspirations and injections into muscles tendons and joints.
Level 2 procedures - incisions and excisions. (excluding those in the POLCV policy)
Level 3 procedures - excision biopsy of low risk Basal Cell Carcinomas.
Dr Waseem Mohi, Chair