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Advice & Guidance Service

Checked: 23-08-2023 by Vicky Ryan Next Review: 23-08-2024

UHBW Surgery Advice & Guidance

Please process through eRS bypassing the Referral Service. 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.

General Surgery

General Surgery - Weston Area Health Trust - RA3

Priority - Routine
Specialty - Surgery - Not Otherwise Specified
Clinic - Hernias OR Lumps and Bumps

Thoracic Surgery

Thoracic Surgery Advice - University Hospitals Bristol - RA7.

Priority - Routine
Specialty - Surgery - Cardiothoracic
Clinic - Thoracic Surgery

Upper & Lower GI Surgery

Colorectal Surgery Advice - University Hospitals Bristol - RA7 16/08/23 - this service has temporarily closed

Priority - Routine
Specialty - GI & Liver (medicine & surgery)
Clinic - Colorectal Surgery

Colorectal Surgery - Weston Area Health Trust - RA3

Priority - Routine
Specialty - GI & Liver (medicine & surgery)
Clinic - Colorectal Surgery

Upper GI Surgery Advice - University Hospitals Bristol - RA7 02/05/23 (update 5.12.23)- this service has closed until further notice

Priority - Routine
Specialty - GI & Liver (Medicine & Surgery)
Clinic - Upper GI

Upper GI Surgery - Weston Area Health Trust - RA3

Priority - Routine
Specialty - GI & Liver (Medicine & Surgery)
Clinic - Upper GI

Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery

Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery Advice - University Hospitals Bristol - RA7 16/08/23 - this service has temporarily closed

Priority - Routine
Specialty - GI & Liver (Medicine & Surgery)
Clinic - Upper GI

NBT Surgery Advice & Guidance

General Surgery, Upper and lower GI surgery

There is no advice and guidance service for General Surgery, Upper and Lower GI. All referrals sent to these specialties through ERS will be triaged by a clinician and the patient will be seen accordingly.

Plastic Surgery A&G

Plastics – plasticsdermatologyburnsmanagement@nbt.nhs.uk

Email responses will be returned within 7 calendar days.

Response times

The waiting time tool for BNSSG GP practices includes a section on A and G waiting times. You will need to download the document and follow the instructions to access the latest information (updated monthly). Please see the Hospital waiting times page.

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.

Information provided through Remedy is continually updated so please be aware any printed copies may quickly become out of date.