If you need referral to a specialist, your doctor (GP) will be happy to discuss this with you and make the necessary arrangements, either using local NHS hospital services, or if preferred, local private specialists. On-going communication between specialist and GP aims to ensure good continuity of care and safe practice.
All non-urgent NHS referrals now go through the Care Coordination Service.
Your GP has joined with others in the area to set up a collobarative central service providing you with a fast and efficient way to choose appointments for hospital and specialist clinic services.
The Care Coordination Service (CCS) developed by Central London Healthcare streamlines the administration and booking of GP referrals to specialist care and treatment in hospitals and community-based clinics.
Please use the above link to find out more about this service.
Please Note: It can take up to seven days to generate a non-urgent referral letter. While we always respect specialist advice, we are not always able to prescribe medication suggested by the specialist if it does not fall within the our locality formulary (a limited list of medications, based on proven efficacy and cost-effectiveness). In these cases, we will always try to prescribe an equivalent medication, of equal effectiveness from the local formulary.
Other Referrals to services such as Podiatry, Counselling & Antenatal Clinics some of which are offered here in The Soho Centre for Health & Wellbeing are done in the usual way by first consulting your GP and discussing your particular needs.
