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Checked: 23-08-2023 by Vicky Ryan Next Review: 23-08-2025

Overview

Acute Burns

The SW UK Children's Burns Centre is located at Bristol Royal Children's Hospital (aged under 16).

Please see the Guidance for Referral

This link provides criteria for discussion/ referral.

CKS also has advice on initial assessment and first aid treatment of burns:

Burns and scalds | Health topics A to Z | CKS | NICE

Please note that referrals for cosmetic treatment for scarring caused by burns is not routinely funded. Please see the Cosmetic Surgery or Treatment Policy for details.

Referral

Acute/Urgent Referrals

For acute referrals telephone the SWUK Children’s Burn Centre: (0117) 923 0000 Bleep 6780 who may request you use the following online referral tool:

https://referrals.mdsas.com/ .

Tips when completing this form:

Do not send referrals via email as these will not be accepted.
The form does not pre-populate from EMIS and requires manual entry of information.
GP practices are not included in the drop down list of organisations and so click the link below the organisation box to enter the name of your practice.
Fill in the form with as much information and include pictures.
Call 0117 9505050 and ask to speak to the On-Call Plastics SHO who will advise and offer an appointment or advise as necessary.

Please note: This system is recommended Nationally (mdsas) and has been agreed by the burns Network (SWUK). It is in use at all burns service providers in SWUK.

The process of using this system was distributed to all MIUS and EDs during COVID explaining the procedure. Some referrers will not be familiar with this system and junior medical staff are also told to accept telephone referrals. For contacts that are requesting advice, they may be asked to upload a referral via the telemedicine system as this allows for photo upload. How to refer via telemedicine

Routine Referrals

Referrals for cosmetic treatment for scarring caused by burns cannot be made by GPs without individual funding in place. Please see the Cosmetic Surgery or Treatment Policy for details.

If funding is approved then please submit to Plastics via eRS.

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.