Download referral information for professionals, specifications and protocols for Bristol Enablement Services.

Wheelchairs

Accredited Referrers Only:

A user guide is attached which will assist you in navigating the format.

The new personalised referral form and password will be accessible by emailing: wheelchairs@nbt.nhs.uk  – please make any referrals using this method and we will process these requests.

Further information

If you have any questions regarding the system/format, please contact the Wheelchair service on 0117 414 4900 or by email at: wheelchairs@nbt.nhs.uk.

​All other referral forms are below:

Orthotics

Orthotic Referral Form - 

Orthotic E-Referral Completion Guide - 

Orthotic Knee Brace Referral Form - 

Orthotic Spinal Referral Form - 

The new personalised referral form and password will be accessible by emailing: orthotics@nbt.nhs.uk or contact the orthotic service on 0117 414 4900

Prosthetics

Prosthetic Referral Form - 

Assistant General Manager: David Rowland

Wheelchair Service Clinical Lead : Kirsty-Ann Cutler

Wheelchair Repairs & Support Manager: Stefan Sowka

Prosthetics & Orthotics Clinical Lead: Helen Harvey

Electronic Assistive Technology Service Clinical Lead: Jemma Newman

AAC West Clinical Lead: Victoria Styles

Support Manager: Alison Davies

GMC Number: 4652621

Year of first qualification: 1996, MA Oxon

Specialty: Neurology

Clinical interest: Cognitive Neurology

Secretary: Helen Oaten

Telephone: 0117 414 7296

GMC Number: 6025704

Year of first qualification: 2001, Bristol

Specialty: Respiratory Medicine

Clinical interest: Severe Asthma and Emphysema. Unexplained breathlessness. Pulmonary Rehabilitation & Integrated care. 

Respiratory research interests: Cognitive function and brain pathology in COPD. Digital technologies in the assessment of lung function and interdisciplinary assessment of breathlessness.

Secretary: Lata Luchmun
Telephone: 0117 414 2016
Email: Respiratoryadmin@nbt.nhs.uk

Dr Dodd is clinical lead for complex airways disease at the North Bristol Lung Centre. He trained throughout the south west region, before completing a PhD at St George's University of London. He returned to the south west in 2013 as NIHR clinical lecturer at the University of Bristol. He was appointed consultant & honorary senior lecturer in Respiratory Medicine North Bristol Trust in 2015.

He is a member of the British Thoracic Society and advisor to the British Lung Foundation. He is on the evidence review group of the BTS/SIGN Asthma guideline and is a member of the South Gloucestershire CCG community Respiratory Group.

Dr Dodd has been awarded research grants from the British Lung Foundation and Wellcome Trust and is principal investigator on a number of clinical trials for patients with COPD & Asthma.

GMC Number: 4743219

Year of first qualification: 2000, Kings College London

Specialty: Anaesthetics

Clinical interests: Trauma, vascular and education

Secretary: Anaesthetic department

Telephone number: 0117 414 5114

GMC Number: 6061078

Year of first qualification: 2002, Chennai India

Specialty: Neurology

Clinical interests: Epilepsy

Secretary: Paula Davies

Telephone: 0117 414 6685

GMC number: 6093356

Specialty: Anaesthetics

General Practitioners should phone the GP Support Team (GPST) on 01172449283 to refer acutely unwell medical patients to the Acute Medicine Unit (AMU).
The GPST will record the clinical details and advise you of where to send the patient.
This will be Gate 31b, Gate 31a (Ambulatory Emergency Care), Level 0, Brunel building, Southmead Hospital or in certain circumstances to the Emergency Department, Level 0, Brunel building, Southmead Hospital.

If you wish to speak to the on call medical Consultant please phone the hospital switchboard on 0117 9505050 and ask to be connected to them.

All acutely unwell medical patients can be referred to the Acute Medicine service. Referral letters should be faxed to the Acute Medical Unit.

There are specific community pathways for patients with suspected DVT accessed via GP Care.

Medicine Consultants
Dr Ella Chaudhuri
Dr Ishita Dasgupta
Dr Kiaran Flanagan
Dr John Ho
Dr Nigel Lane
Dr Sam Patel
Dr Louise Powter
Dr May Samways
Dr Madhu Wickremaratchi

Ward Managers
Gemma Stafford
George Duffield
Emma Stedman

Pharmacist
Natasha Mogford

Patients might be referred by their GP or the Emergency Department for assessment to the Ambulatory Emergency Care area on Gate 31a, Level 0, Brunel Building, Southmead Hospital.

This is a seated assessment area where the patient’s story can be detailed, investigations arranged and treatment started if needed.

Some patients will be discharged at this point with a detailed plan for follow-up or outpatient investigations if required. It is here that other patients will see a medical Consultant.