GP Referrals
GP referral letters
To facilitate effective triage, it is helpful if GPs include the following information in referral letters:
- Sub-specialty that patient is being referred to
- Referrer details
- GP name
- Practice name
- Address
- Telephone number
- Date of referral
- Patient details
- Name
- Sex
- Date of birth
- NHS/RXK number
- Address
- Telephone number (daytime or mobile if possible)
- Medical history
- Current medication
- Significant history, including previous consultations for the same condition, name of consultant seen previously
- Active problems
- Clinical information
- Referral priority (urgent/routine)
- Reason for referral
- Preliminary investigations and results, as well as management appropriate to reason for referral
- Information regarding special/social circumstances (Does patient have hearing, mental health difficulties or mobility impairment? Is an interpreter needed?)
