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Advice & Guidance Service

Checked: 24-10-2024 by Vicky Ryan Next Review: 23-10-2026

Community respiratory A & G (Sirona)

Advice is available from The community specialist respiratory team for all BNSSG practices.

This team offers an advice and guidance service for colleagues in general practice, care homes, the ambulance service and 111. This service is for all patients, regardless of whether they have / are believed to have Covid-19.

The number is: 0333 230 1471

The line is open 8:00am - 6:30pm, 7 days a week

The number is staffed by specialist nurses and physios who have access to consultant advice on a daily basis, Monday to Friday.

Queries could include such issues as a deteriorating NEWS score, managing acute breathlessness, oxygen weaning, management of COPD, non-compliance with medication etc.

NBT respiratory A & G

Respiratory Consultant Advice (NBT)

A respiratory consultant is available to offer advice or discuss referrals on a direct number: 0117 414 0282 (Monday to Friday 09:00am–5:00pm).

Advice & Guidance via eRS

For less urgent cases, advice can be requested via eRS. Advice requests should ideally be typed into the free text window of the advice request body on e-RS rather than attaching a separate letter or Word document. If you attach a Clinical Information Summary, please ensure it is named this, so that clinicians at secondary care can opt to look at it if they wish to turn the request into a referral.

Priority – Routine
Specialty – Respiratory Medicine
Clinic – Not otherwise specified

Name of service – “Respiratory Medicine - Advice & Guidance – Southmead - RVJ”

Exclusions:

If the query is specifically about radiology performed at NBT (e.g. nodule follow up advice) please ask radiology direct by e-mailing: radiologyqueries@nbt.nhs.uk
Not to be used for ongoing management of a patients currently under a respiratory consultant in BNSSG (please contact that specialist team directly by e-mail, letter or phone)
Not for a second opinion.
Not for progressing/expediting an existing referral.

UHBW respiratory A and G

Advice & Guidance is available via eRS from 28th October 2024

Advice requests should ideally be typed into the free text window of the advice request body on e-RS, rather than attaching a separate letter or Word document.

Name of service – “Respiratory Medicine - Advice & Guidance – UHBW”

Exclusions:

Not to be used for ongoing management of a patients under a Respiratory Specialty in BNSSG.
Not for a second opinion.
Not for progressing/expediting an existing referral.

Efforts are made to ensure the accuracy and agreement of these guidelines, including any content uploaded, referred to or linked to from the system. However, BNSSG ICB cannot guarantee this. This guidance does not override the individual responsibility of healthcare professionals to make decisions appropriate to the circumstances of the individual patient, in consultation with the patient and/or guardian or carer, in accordance with the mental capacity act, and informed by the summary of product characteristics of any drugs they are considering. Practitioners are required to perform their duties in accordance with the law and their regulators and nothing in this guidance should be interpreted in a way that would be inconsistent with compliance with those duties.

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