New GIRFT toolkit and templates for responding to common ENT Advice and Guidance requests
Templates for responding to Advice and Guidance (A&G) requests for 24 of the most common ENT conditions are now available, helping to enhance communication between primary and secondary care and reduce unnecessary delays.
The new outpatient resources – covering requests for both adults and children - are part of a new ENT A&G toolkit for secondary care clinicians, which can be found on the GIRFT FutureNHS workspace.
GIRFT brought together a working group of clinicians from primary and secondary care to develop the templates, to ensure they are helpful to both the specialists using them and the GPs receiving them.
The toolkit offers tips on making optimal use of A&G and includes templates which can be adapted in response to A&G requests for 24 common ENT conditions, including tinnitus, neck lumps and sleep apnoea.
The colour-coded templates aim to improve the timeliness and quality of responses back to GPs, allowing a personalised response which is tailored to the patient’s presentation, with the most important information clearly highlighted and scope for local processes and requirements to be flagged.
Click to download the ENT A&G toolkit and templates on FuturesNHS
