ICU Follow-Up Clinic
When you are discharged from hospital after being critically ill, it will take time to recover physically and emotionally. We feel it is important to ensure you are not alone during this time.
Our Follow-Up Clinic aims to support you and your family through this journey. As one of the largest ICUs in the country we treat around 250 patients a month so we have a huge number of potential visitors to our follow-up clinic. To manage waiting times we actively invite certain groups of patients to attend. This is based on how long a patient was in the ICU and their condition. If you are not contacted by us, but feel you would like to discuss your time in the ICU please contact us by email.
For those who we actively contact, we aim to get in touch about 8 weeks after you are discharged from hospital. We ask you to complete a health questionnaire to give us more information about your recovery. Once your questionnaire has been completed and returned to the Follow-Up Clinic, a member of the team will contact you. They will discuss your recovery in more detail to find out whether you would benefit from more input. In this case, you may be invited back to the hospital for a face-to-face or virtual meeting with the team. We will aim to establish any current issues, assist you to deal with these, or direct you to available support.
We also welcome feedback from patients and relatives about their experience on ICU, and what we can do to improve our care in the future. If there is anything you would like to feedback, please contact us via our email address: icufollowup@nbt.nhs.uk
Useful links
- Life after a critical illness
- ICUsteps: Fact sheets about what to expect after an ICU admission, and patient stories.
- Healthtalk: Real life patients talking about their experiences in ICU.
Referrals
We accept referrals to the follow-up clinic from wards, specialty clinics, GPs and patients themselves.
If you are a clinician please contact icufollowup@nbt.nhs.uk if you have a patient you would like to refer or visit ICU Follow-up NBT (Remedy BNSSG ICB) for more information.