Manage demand for services using our National Network

Our National Consultant Network for Elective Care comprises NHS consultants who are able to answer calls or written requests for advice. For example, they may work part time and be willing to take calls on their days off. These consultants are able to:

• Support your local consultants, acting as a back up when they can’t respond to requests; and/or
• Provide specialties that are not available locally, e.g. neurology, dermatology etc; or
• Answer all Phone Advice & Guidance calls from GPs – leaving local consultants free to help the patients they need to see.

We cover most specialties including:

• Cardiology
• Dermatology
• Diabetes and Endocrinology
• Gastroenterology
• Gynaecology
• Haematology
• Neurology
• Paediatrics
• Renal Medicine
• Urology

Our National Network for Mental Health comprises fully trained and accredited NHS Psychiatrists, Pharmacists and Nurse Prescribers that will answer medication/prescribing Advice & Guidance calls.

We offer two medication lines: one for children and young people and one for working age adults.

We understand the importance of keeping young people and adults managed in primary care where it is clinically appropriate to do so and reducing the number of people unnecessarily added to long waiting lists in secondary care.

 Our medication advice lines support with:

• Medication reviews
• Potential interactions between drugs and side effects
• Supporting primary care prescribing
• Confirming NICE guidance

We offer this service to support GPs with managing a range of conditions in primary care including Anxiety, Depression, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Autism, and Psychosis.