Barts Cancer Centre | For clinicians | Single point of referral for diagnosed cancer referrals
Single point of referral for diagnosed cancer referrals
Do you refer patients with a diagnosed cancer to Barts and The London NHS Trust?
If so, please take advantage of the centralised service offered by the Barts and The London Cancer Single Point of Referral (SPoR) Office.
SPoR is a centralised receipt and registration office. It provides a safe and effective process for handling patient referrals to Barts and The London NHS Trust for MDM review, diagnostics, and/ or treatment.
What are the benefits of using the SPoR service?
A rapid response to receipting a tertiary cancer referral, enabling the following on the same day as receiving the referral;
- Register patients on PAS / EPR
- Scan / upload all referral information received onto EPR (to ensure available to Barts and The London clinicians 24 hours a day, 7 days a week)
- Instant upload of images onto the Barts and The London PACS (Picture Archiving and Communications System)
- Log patients onto the Cancer Pathway System (CPS) for proactive tracking
- Inform clinical teams of new referrals for clinical review and action (same day)
- Cover protocols implemented to ensure all patients referred are clinically reviewed with the next sequence ‘event' scheduled by clinical teams within 24 hours of receipt.
How to access the Cancer SPoR service
Barts and The London provider trusts are encouraged to forward all Cancer tertiary referrals - including patients requiring MDT discussion, diagnostics and treatment - via the Barts and The London Cancer Single Point of Referral. Transfer of patients may go via fax, secure NHS.net to NHS.net email or by post/courier. The details are as follows;
Contact numbers
New SPoR number from Monday 24 January 2011 tel 020 7767 3222
eFax number: 020 7791 9660
SPoR dedicated referral email: btl-tr.CancerLinkReferrals@nhs.net
Postal address: - new address from today, Monday 24 January 2011
CANCERLINK Team
Single Point of Referral
Barts and The London NHS Trust
Central Appointments Office
1st Floor, 9 Prescot Street
London
E1 8PR
Useful documents and referral forms
Download Referral process overview.
Download MDT timetable.Download Brain and CNS cancer clinical referral package - January 2011.
Download Breast cancer referral package - January 2011.
Download Colorectal cancer clinical referral package - January 2011.
Download Dermatological cancer clinical referral package - January 2011.
Download ENT cancer clinical referral package - January 2011.
Download Gynae cancer clinical referral package - January 2011.
Download Haematology cancer clinical referral package - February 2012
Download Lung cancer clinical referral package - January 2011.
Download HPB cancer clinical referral package - January 2011.Download OMFS cancer clinical referral package - January 2011.
Download Thyroid cancer clinical referral package - January 2011.
Download UGI cancer clinical referral package - January 2011.
Download Urology cancer clinical referral package - January 2011.
