Key messages

• Devon Referral Support Service - User Guide for GP practices
• GP Guidance: Using the Consultant Connect App to take secure clinical images using your smartphone
• RD&E Teledermatology update
• Paper Referral Switch Off
• Wait times
• Devon patient choice statement for seeking an alternative provider when the 18-week referral to treatment (RTT) is breached
• Devon patient choice statement
• Consultant to Consultant referrals
• Patient wishing to expedite their appointments
• Hydroxychloroquine Retinopathy
• Referral Top Tips - Supporting quality and appropriateness of referrals
• New NHS Devon Hallux Valgus (Bunion)
• Evidence-Based Interventions
• Update on the implementation of the Faecal Immunochemical Test
• Armed forces community
• NDHT Pre-choice Triage/Advice & Guidance
• RD&E Pre-choice Triage/Advice & Guidance
• Planned Care News
• Abdominal wall hernia policy update
• Implementation of the Faecal Immunochemical Test (qFIT) across the South West
• Suspected Renal and Ureteric Stones - Eastern
• Update to Fast Track Knee/Shoulder Clinics - RD&E
• Single Clinical Referral Guidance for all Devon Fertility referrals
• RD&E 2ww Office
• North Devon Teledermatology - New service
• "In Shape for Surgery" video
• “In Shape for Surgery”
• Safeguarding App
• New Suspected Cancer Referral forms for NHS Devon CCG and East Cornwall Practices
• 2WW & Symptomatic Breast Referrals
• Suspected Heart Failure – Serum natriuretic peptides or Echocardiogram?
• Formulary & Referral App

Referral feedback

• To contact the Clinical Referral Guideline Support Team