{"id":8382,"date":"2018-11-20T15:49:07","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T15:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stockportccg.nhs.uk\/practicehub\/?p=8382"},"modified":"2018-11-20T15:49:07","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T15:49:07","slug":"referrals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/news\/referrals\/","title":{"rendered":"Referrals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Consultant Connect<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>ENT is available again via Consultant Connect. This enables GPs to obtain advice and guidance by phone from the ENT Consultants. It can also reduce the need for referral for outpatients\u2019 appointment.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Ultrasound scan referrals<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>With immediate effect <u>all<\/u> referrals to community based ultrasound scan providers must be made via e Referral Service. Any referrals faxed or sent by post will be returned to the referrer. This is in line with the Paper Switch Off work which has already happened with acute trusts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Referrals to Stepping Hill hospital will continue to be processed as per their normal processes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Trauma Nurse Team<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The way you refer to the Trauma Nurse Team is changing. From 1 December 2018 referrals will no longer be accepted by fax. Referrals will need to be sent via e mail. The e mail address is <a href=\"mailto:snt-tr.fractureclinicreferrals@nhs.net\">snt-tr.fractureclinicreferrals@nhs.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Referrals sent via fax will be returned to practices to be processed via email.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Expedite letters<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>For patients referred to Stepping Hill should be emailed to <a href=\"mailto:snt-tr.shhreferrals@nhs.net\">snt-tr.shhreferrals@nhs.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Please do not send a further referral via eRS as this creates duplicate referrals.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Audiology referrals<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>All audiology referrals must now be booked via eRS. However this service is only available to patients aged 50 and over. Patients experiencing hearing loss aged 49 or under need to be booked into ENY.<\/p>\n<p>Please do <u>not<\/u> book your patients into the\u00a0\u2018Hear and Now\u2019 audiology at Stepping Hill. This is specifically for Tameside and Glossop patients and will result in the referral being returned to you.<\/p>\n   ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consultant Connect ENT is available again via Consultant Connect. This enables GPs to obtain advice and guidance by phone from the ENT Consultants. It can also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":610,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,63],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8382"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/610"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8383,"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8382\/revisions\/8383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}