Updates - - TNW
City Square Medical Group – New branch at Cable Street opens next week
Patients registered to the City Square Medical Group based in Whitechapel are set to benefit from additional space and a wider range of services following the opening of the new branch practice at 445 Cable Street, London E1W 3DE on 27 June 2022.
Free Family Weight Management now available in Waltham Forest: BeeZee Families
BeeZee sessions are now available to children who are above their ideal healthy weight, and live, go to school, or are registered with a GP in Waltham Forest.
Tower Hamlets GP Care Group is the new provider for the Healthy Child Programme
Waltham Forest council has appointed Tower Hamlets GP Care Group as the new provider for the Healthy Child Programme.
Barts Health Advice & Referral pathways
There is an update on the Barts Health Advice & Referral pathways, along with the previously-circulated aide memoire to support your practice.
Tower Hamlets Carbon Reduction Community Grants Programme
The Carbon Reduction Community Grants Programme is open to any Community Group, Community Interest Company and Charity in Tower Hamlets. The grants help support carbon reductions through building retrofit projects or community engagement activities.
Update on referrals into Barts Health, February 2022
Barts Health NHS Trust, in collaboration with NEL CCG and primary care stakeholders, have been piloting using the advice and guidance (A&G) portal on eRS as a single point of access for all advice and referrals in a new process known as advice & referral (A&R).
Update on Imaging Services at Barts Health NHS Trust, February 2022
We would like to remind GP colleagues that patients must present to a Barts Health hospital within three weeks of their X-ray referral. Existing referrals between three weeks and six months old will continue to be honoured, however requests will be assessed on a case-by-case basis by our clinical teams to ensure an X-ray is still required and clinically valid.
Newham - All Phlebotomy should now be booked on Swiftqueue
From 7 February 2022, ELFT Phlebotomy service will no longer be offering any walk in slots. Urgent blood appointments will still be available across the day for those whose immediate management plan relies on a prompt blood test. Urgent requests will be honoured where a patient attends and their blood form shows that it was printed off as an urgent blood request.
NELFT Free Text messaging service for GPs - Talking Therapies
North East London Foundation Trust (NELFT) Talking Therapies would like to use SMS text messages to signpost patients registered at practices across Barking & Dagenham, Havering, Redbridge and Waltham Forest to IAPT services, as well as provide them with information/guidance on mental health.