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Additional needs from Cancer Pre-Diagnosis Team

4 December 2023

The ULHT Cancer Pre-Diagnosis Clinical Nurse Specialist Team support people on a suspected cancer pathway who have additional needs. These can be physical, social, socioeconomic or mental health needs. For…

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Performance matters: Radiology sedation

23 November 2023

Practices have reported that they are seeing an increase in requests for them to prescribe sedation for patients due to have radiological investigations such as MRI scans. Sedated patients should…

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Fracture clinic GP referrals

22 November 2023

Practices contacted us to advise they had been told that they could not refer patients directly to fracture clinic. While most patients who need fracture clinic are referred directly after…

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PSA ranges alignment with NICE guidance

27 September 2023

The previous lab reported PSA ranges were not in alignment with NICE guidance. The list below is what appears on the Lincolnshire – 2WW Urology referral letter. Normal Age…

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Inclisiran

26 September 2023

Background We recently issued some information on Inclisiran but wished to further update this as several practices have contacted us to inform us that they have felt under pressure by…

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Proxy Access to a Child’s ‘Online’ Medical Record

23 August 2023

Automatic Access for Parents, family members or Carers. All mothers and most fathers have legal rights and responsibilities as a parent - known as ‘parental responsibility’. Someone with parental responsibility…

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Completion of form Cremation 4 (Medical Certificate) (replaced form B)

15 August 2023

Medical practitioners: guidance on completing cremation forms The most frequently occurring errors in completing these forms are: Failure to complete all questions in full Deletion of questions Incorrect completion of…

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Contacting your Outpatient appointment booking team

9 August 2023

The website will help Practices and patients to access the right hospital team. Note: the teams do not belong to a particular hospital site. Phone lines are open from Monday…

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NHSmail self-service password reset

27 July 2023

Self-service password reset is now available for your NHSmail account. How does this impact me? This means you can reset your password at any time without contacting local IT support…

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Gillick-Fraser Competence

14 June 2023

GPs frequently see patients who are aged under 18 years of age without the parents being present. If the GP decides to treat these patients without parental knowledge or consent…

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Clinical Negligence Scheme for General Practice (CNSGP)

13 June 2023

The document (CNSGP) outlines the scope of the CNSGP. If you are a Practice Nurse who is employed by a General Practice you will be covered under CNSGP for any…

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2WW Cancer Referral Forms

13 June 2023

We recently met with the ICB Cancer team who raised that acceptance of some referrals on to 2WW cancer pathways have been delayed due to an absence of some details…

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