Bedfordshire LOC

Luton and Dunstable Hospital Documents

Acute Eye Clinic

Mon – Fri   09:00 – 12:00  14:00 – 16:30

Please refer using the BUS Referral by

Electronic Referral System EERS

 

Direct Dial 01582 718320

If out of area please try

Email: ldh-tr.acute.eyeclinics@nhs.net

 Please do NOT send a patient direct to the Acute department.

 

Out of Hours Service

Mon - Fri  between 17:00 – 21:00 and

Weekends & Bank Holidays between 9:00 – 21:00

 SWITCHBOARD  01582 491166

 Bleep – 888 On Call Ophthalmologist

Patients should ONLY be sent directly to A&E if they have a problem which is immediately sight-threatening or life-threatening AND you are unable to get through to the on-call eye doctor via switchboard, having tried more than once.

The out of hours service does not have access to the EERS or EMAIL system.

 

ROUTINE

 1. Send your normal GOS18/Referrals via the Electronic Referral System, EERS.

If out of area please use ldophthalmology@nhs.net

           

2. Send any "direct-access Cataract referrals" (if you are accredited on the cataract shared-care pathway) via

           the Electronic Referral System, EERS.

          Invoices please post once a month to: "FAO: Akil Kanani, Lead Optometrist, Eye Department, Ophthalmology, Luton & Dunstable Hospital, Lewsey Road, Luton LU4 0DZ"

 

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