Contacts for GPs and referrers
Some services provide rapid access for GPs. These contacts can be found below, along with links for further information on the service. please note that these contacts are for use by health care professionals only
- Chest Pain – please refer via eRS (service name: RAS Rapid Access Chest Pain Clinic – Cardiology Department).
- Geriatrics – 07766 703 203
- Paediatrics – 07795 390715
- TIA (high risk) – email huh-tr.TIAClinic@nhs.net
- To refer to specialty team via A&E (urgent referral specialties include medicine, surgery, orthopaedics, obstetrics, gynaecology, and psychiatry)–
- Bleep specialty registrar via switchboard on 0208 510 5555
- Emergency psychiatric clinic – 0208 510 8533
- Emergency gynaecology clinic – 0208 510 7861 or bleep 295 via switchboard
Advice & Guidance
To support you in managing your patients within primary care, we offer an Advice & Guidance service for GPs for a number of specialties through e-RS. The target turnaround time is 2 working days, with 84% of requests meeting this target. The following specialties offer advice & guidance through e-RS:
- Rheumatology
- Neurology
- Gastroenterology
- Trauma and Orthopaedics
- Gynaecology
- Respiratory Medicine
- Cardiology
- General Surgery
- Paediatric
- Care of the Elderly
- Allergy
- Diabetes
- Endocrinology
- Urology
- ENT for Adults and Children
Advice & Guidance is also offered outside of e-RS for some specialities, and these contacts can be found below
- Anticoagulation huh-tr.antico@nhs.net
- Haematology huh-tr.haem@nhs.net
- Hypertension huh-tr.hypertension@nhs.net
- Infertility huh-tr.fertility.unit@nhs.net
- Locomotor locomotor@nhs.net
- Maternity/Obstetrics huh-tr.obstetricquery@nhs.net
- Parkinson’s huh-tr.parkinsonsservice@nhs.net
- Renal renal.homerton@nhs.net
- Sexual Health huh-tr.sexualhealthadvice@nhs.net
If you need urgent advice and contact details are not provided here, please call Homerton switchboard on 0208 510 5555 and request to bleep the on-call team for that specialty.