Key messages

• Referral Top Tips - Supporting quality and appropriateness of referrals
• New NHS Devon Hallux Valgus (Bunion)
• Wait times
• Evidence-Based Interventions
• Active Wellbeing: A physical exercise and lifestyle programme for Musculoskeletal conditions - Western locality
• Update on the implementation of the Faecal Immunochemical Test
• Armed forces community
• Rezum (Steam Treatment) for Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia
• Plymouth Orthopaedic Partnership (POP)
• Improving Lives Plymouth Patient Programme
• UHP Pre-choice Triage/Advice & Guidance
• Torbay and South Devon Pre-choice Triage/Advice & Guidance
• Planned Care News
• Paper Referral Switch Off
• Abdominal wall hernia policy update
• Implementation of the Faecal Immunochemical Test (qFIT) across the South West
• Optimal Lung Cancer Pathway
• Suspected Renal and Ureteric Stones
• Single Clinical Referral Guidance for all Devon Fertility referrals
• Consultant to Consultant referrals ​
• Plymouth Hospitals now operate direct access MRI Brain/CNS via ICE system
• Snoring
• "In Shape for Surgery" - Kernow CCG
• "In Shape for Surgery" video - NEW Devon CCG
• “In Shape for Surgery” - NHS Devon CCG
• Safeguarding app
• New Suspected Cancer Referral forms for NEW Devon CCG and East Cornwall Practices
• East Cornwall GP practice update
• 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