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Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust provides community health services in Bexley and Greenwich, and mental health and learning disability services in Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich. We also provide forensic psychiatry and challenging behaviour services for the boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich and Lewisham, and deliver services to nine prisons in Kent.
GP section on Oxleas' website
GPs now have easy access to comprehensive referral and contact information on all Oxleas' services. This includes:
- contact numbers for GPs to use
- service opening times
- referral criteria
- up to date referral forms
Please check out the new section: www.oxleas.nhs.uk/gps/
We welcome your feedback and would also like to know if you have any ideas for improving this.
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GP Masterclass - 3 October
This is a free evening masterclass, open to GPs and practice staff in Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich.
The focus of the event will be 'End of Life Care and Mental Capacity Assessment'.
Venue: The Glennie Room, Royal Blackheath Golf Club, Court Road, Eltham, London SE9 5AF.
Refreshments will be available from 6.30pm and the presentations will begin at 7.30pm.
Copies of all presentations from previous GP Masterclasses can be located here.
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If you have any feedback, comments, suggestions or questions regarding Fusion or any Oxleas services, please email GPfeedback@oxleas.nhs.uk and we will either respond by email or arrange to visit your practice if you have a specific need.
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Greenwich edition - issue 6
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October 2012
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Greetings!
Welcome to the sixth edition of Greenwich Fusion - which aims to keep Greenwich GPs, up to date with what's happening in local health services provided by Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust.
If you have any ideas or specific information you want included in future issues, please let us know. Feedback on the services Oxleas provide is always welcome.
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Children's community nurses join Oxleas
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We have launched an enhanced Integrated Children's Service in the Royal Borough of Greenwich. At the heart of the service will be a dedicated team of children's community nurses.
The team was formerly based at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woolwich. Appointments are now provided at Wensley Close in Eltham with the following clinics: Children's Community Nursing Clinic on Tuesdays between 2pm and 4pm and on Fridays between 4pm and 6pm; Diabetic Clinic on Wednesdays between 9.30am and 12.30pm.
The nurses will work closely with existing services and provide a team of children's nurses working alongside other healthcare professionals in clinics and family homes. This will help prevent children having to go in to hospital unless they need to. The service will be expanding to provide a comprehensive specialist community service which will encompass the following community services; nursing; continuing care and end of life care; dietetics and attention deficit hyperactivity service. This service will work as part of a broad children's services network to provide high quality specialised child centred care in Greenwich.
The new contact details for the service are Tel: 020 8294 3130 and Fax: 020 8294 3132. Referrals for the service will be accepted using a standard referral form, fax or telephone referral. Operating hours will be from 8.30am - 4.30pm.
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Children's Therapies Service referral changes
Children's therapies have changed the referral process for speech and language therapy, music therapy, physiotherapy, occupational therapy and dietetics in Greenwich.
The administrative functions for these services will be joining together to form a central administration team for children's therapies. The central team will operate from 8.30am - 5.00pm, Monday to Friday. They will be based at Memorial Hospital, Shooters Hill, London SE18 3RG. Tel: 020 8836 8617 or email:
oxl-tr.childrenstherapies@nhs.net.
The administration teams for occupational therapy and physiotherapy will no longer be based at Goldie Leigh, and are now based at Memorial Hospital.
What this means for GPs: All referrals to paediatric therapies should be sent to the central administration team at Memorial Hospital.
Referrals should be made using the following criteria and the standard Request for Support form.
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Choose and Book
Heart failure, diabetes and podiatry community services are now directly Choose and Bookable. We would encourage all GPs to use this route of referral as much as possible. Continence will be going live as a Choose and Bookable service on 24 September.
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Survey of GPs' views of Oxleas services
A few years ago, we carried out a survey of 150 local GPs to gather your views on how our services should develop. We found this information extremely useful and made several changes as a result including:
- Providing patient lists to practices
- Establishing a programme of masterclasses
- Working to improve communication between our clinicians and GPs
We have decided to repeat this survey to ensure our services develop in the ways you think will be best for patients and also easiest for you to use.
We have commissioned an independent research company, Capita, to carry out a survey to learn more about your priorities for improvements to the mental health, learning disability and community health services we provide.
An interviewer from Capita may have contacted you to conduct an interview. The survey is also available on-line and in paper form and you will have received details of these by post. Everything you tell Capita will, of course, be treated in confidence and no identifying information will be passed to us or anyone else.
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SLHT update
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You will be aware of developments at South London Healthcare NHS Trust (SLHT) which has recently become the first NHS trust to be placed in the Government's Unsustainable Provider Regime.
Oxleas Chief Executive Stephen Firn said: "We are working with the administrator, commissioners and other providers to inform the proposals for sustainable and safe local services. As part of this we are involved in discussions about the ownership of the hospital sites and how the services are delivered in the future."
Services at SLHT continue to operate as normal while the administrator develops his recommendations. We will continue to provide the services we do currently at the three SLHT sites (Queen Mary's Hospital, Princess Royal University Hospital and Queen Elizabeth Hospital).
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MSK services
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The Musculoskeletal (MSK) Adult service based at Manor Brook Medical Centre centre in Brook Lane is using extra-corporeal shock-wave therapy to help clients that conventional pain relief methods have failed.
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TB services
The TB team, which covers Greenwich, has been instrumental in developing a dedicated TB clinic at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich.
This has had a significant and positive impact on patient experience with the following outcomes: Outpatients Department Clinic waiting times have reduced by at least 50%; treatment completion rates have increased by 10%; more patients can be seen in each clinic which has increased productivity and the streamlined service means happier patients therefore reduced 'lost to follow-up' cases.
Click here for details of our TB services.
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Long term conditions on the web
Want to help your patients know more about diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or heart failure? Why not direct them to the new long term conditions (LTC) section of our website at www.oxleas.nhs.uk/ltc
With lots of useful information on everything from how the weather affects COPD to medications and eating right, there is plenty of information to support people living with these conditions, as well as their family and friends.
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Greenwich DOLS contact
Greenwich Deprivation of Liberty or (DOLS) enquiries are now being dealt with by the Royal Borough of Greenwich, these used to be looked after by the Primary Care Trust. DOLS is part of the Mental Capacity Act introduced with the Mental Health Act 2010. You should now contact the Safeguarding Adults team through Jackie Laidler, Mental Capacity Act Coordinator, Safeguarding Adults Team, The Woolwich Centre, 35 Wellington Street, London SE18 6HQ. Tel: 020 8921 2319. Fax: 020 8921 3112.
Email: dols-enquiries@greenwich.gov.uk.
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Appointment at Greenwich LINk
Greenwich LINk has appointed Clive Mardner as its new Community Development and Engagement Officer. He will be conducting outreach and community development activities to engage with Greenwich's diverse community to support their involvement in the work of the LINk. Clive can be contacted on 020 8853 2857 or email clive.mardner@parkwoodhealthcare.co.uk.
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