Contact
Medical Photography
Gate 38 Level 3
Brunel building
Southmead Hospital
Westbury-on-Trym
Bristol
BS10 5NB
Email: Photography@nbt.nhs.uk
Telephone: 0117 4146500
We continue to triage all the TWW referrals, but as of January 1st 2018 the LCNS will also be reviewing all abnormal CXR with a high suspicion of lung cancer and requesting a full staging CT scan.
We will also inform the patient and GP practice and request an urgent TWW referral.
When you send your patients for CXR, please advise them that depending on the results they may be contacted directly from the hospital.
To enable us to request further investigations please ensure the TWW form is completed in as much detail as possible, such as smoking status, performance status, anticoagulation medication and relevant past medical history.
Telephone: 0117 4141900
Email: sarah.smith@nbt.nhs.uk
Email: deborah.walton@nbt.nhs.uk
For Information about Lung Cancer care pathways, visit http://pathways.nice.org.uk/pathways/lung-cancer
www.arthritiscare.org.uk Arthritis Care exists to support people with arthritis. It is the UK’s largest organization working with and for all people who have arthritis. It is a user led organization which means people with arthritis are at the heart of the work – they form the membership, are involved in all of the organisation’s activities and directs it does.
www.backcare.org.uk BackCare is a registered charity that aims to reduce the burden of back pain by providing information and support, promoting good practice and funding research. The charity acts as the hub between patients, (healthcare) professionals, employers, policy makers, researchers and all others with an interest in back pain.
www.fibromyalgia-associationuk.org Fibromyalgia Association UK is a registered charity administered by unpaid volunteers. FMA UK was established in order to provide information and support to sufferers and their families. In addition, the Association provides medical information for professionals and operates a national helpline.
www.painconcern.org.uk Pain Concern provides information and support for pain sufferers, those who care for them and about them, free factsheets and leaflets to help you manage your pain.
www.patient.co.uk This provides non-medical people in the UK with good quality information about health and disease. The authors (all medical professionals) do this by writing evidence based information leaflets. They also review health and illness related websites and link to many of these from the web directory included on this website.
www.patients-association.com The Patients Association is a national charity providing patients with an opportunity to raise concerns and share experiences of healthcare.
www.patientvoices.org.uk This website has many health-related stories from ordinary people. The idea is that people working in health and social care will see these stories and carry out their duties in a more informed and compassionate manner.
selfmanagementuk.org Free self-management courses providing tools and techniques to help you to take control of your health and manage your condition better on a daily basis. The majority of the courses are delivered by trained tutors who have experience of living with a long-term health condition.
www.taoist.org/uk Website for the Taoist Tai Chi Society of GB, a registered charity that teaches tai chi to the community to help people improve their health and wellbeing.
www.u3a.org.uk U3As are self-help, self-managed lifelong learning co-operatives for older people no longer in full time work, providing opportunities for their members to share learning experiences in a wide range of interest groups and to pursue learning not for qualifications, but for fun.
The North Bristol NHS Trust HIV/Aids Service is based at Southmead Hospital Bristol.
Where patients are known to be HIV positive they should be referred to the HIV Specialist nurses via email: brecon.nurses@nhs.net
HIV/Aids fax number: 0117 4149426
The Palliative Care Home Support Service (PCHS) provides personal care and emotional support for patients who wish to be at home in the last 4 to 6 weeks of life. The team visits patients across the Bristol and South Gloucestershire areas.
The service can provide 1 to 3 care visits to patients between 9am and 9pm for patients registered with a Bristol GP and 1 to 2 care visits to patients between 9am to 5pm for patients registered with a South Gloucester GP.
The service accepts patients with any diagnosis however; they must meet the following criteria:
Referrals can be made by any health or social care professional; by either fax or by telephone.
Bristol Care Co-ordination Centre (BCCC) for End of Life Care, co-ordinates the care for patients considered to be within the last 3 months of life.
Southmead Emergency Department (ED) & Minor Injury Unit (MIU)
Gate 35, Level 0, Brunel building, Southmead Hospital, BS10 5NB.
ED Main Reception
Telephone: 0117 4145100 or 0117 4145101
ED Observation Unit
Telephone: 0117 4144120 or 0117 4144121
General Pharmaceutical Council www.pharmacyregulation.org
Royal Pharmaceutical Society www.rpharms.com
United Kingdom Clinical Pharmacy Association
College of Mental Health Pharmacy www.cmhp.org.uk
Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists www.ghp.org.uk
UK Medicines Information www.ukmi.nhs.uk
North Bristol NHS Trust uses medicines according to the BNSSG Joint Formulary, which can be found at www.bnssgformulary.nhs.uk/. The BNSSG Joint Formulary is regularly updated and monitored by the BNSSG Joint Formulary Group, which includes NBT, University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, Weston Area Health NHS Trust and the local Clinical Commissioning Groups (formerly Primary Care Trusts).
The BNSSG Joint Formulary promotes medicines which are safe, effective and value for money. It is a joint venture between primary and secondary care ensuring that patients have continuity of medicines whether at home or in hospital.
Clinical trials are undertaken to develop better medicines, an improved understanding of medicines' studies and to improve the safety of medicines.
All trial protocols are assessed by the Local Research Ethics Committee (LREC) to ensure that the trial will be safe and will add to the sum of knowledge about medicines.
Only when the LREC is satisfied can patients be recruited for the trial. Each trial is run according to a strict protocol and procedures are in place to ensure that all records are kept up to date. Only Senior Doctors are permitted to introduce a patient to a trial.
Speak to the person treating you to see if there is a research trial or study suitable for you.
All registered clinical pharmacists have undergone a degree in Pharmacy followed by a Pre-Registration period of one year. Most pharmacists have also undertaken a postgraduate clinical diploma qualification. They work in conjunction with pharmacy medicines management technicians looking after a patient’s drug supply and therapy whilst they are in hospital.
Most wards receive a daily visit by a clinical pharmacist. The pharmacist will check a patient’s drug therapy whilst they are in hospital to ensure they are taking the medication that patients were having at home.
Pharmacists work closely with the medical, nursing and other healthcare teams to make sure the patients are taking the right medicines and they are all ok to be taken together, as well as plan for the patients discharge.
Many pharmacists have a specialist role in a particular field and so work as part of a team in that area with the doctors and nurses.
Medicines management technicians are qualified in NVQ level 3/BTEC in pharmacy and registered with the General Pharmacy Council. They are ward based and are part of the ward team. They help improve workflow in the dispensary by planning ahead for discharge.
When patients are admitted the technician will obtain details of the patient’s medication prior to admission from a variety of sources: patient, patients own medication, carers, relatives, GP surgeries, nursing homes and community chemists. This information is referred to the ward pharmacist who then reconciles the information within 24 hours after admission as guided by the ‘Safer Patient Initiative’
We encourage patients to bring in medication at admission so that the technician can assess its suitability for future use, both during their stay and at discharge and also to highlight compliance issues. Medication is stored in individual medication lockers located at the bedside.
Technicians monitor the drug chart for missed doses, supply, omissions, and endorses important instructions against each medicine regarding appropriate administration.
Technicians provide counselling to patients on how to take their medication.
Approaching the discharge stage, technicians and pharmacists can help with organising the ‘take home’ medication in a timely manner.