Download Cardiology Overview and CATS

Cardiology Clinical Assessment &
Treatment Service
…coming soon!
Our service
• What is our service?
– Cardiology CATS (Clinical Assessment & Treatment Service)
• Who has commissioned the service?
– West Herts PCT/St Albans & Harpenden Practice Based
Commissioning group (STAHCOM)
• Who is providing the service?
– West Herts Hospital Trust working in partnership with
Parkbury House Surgery
• When does it start?
– January 2008
Our objectives
• To establish and continue to develop a patient
pathway which is high quality, timely, efficient
local and patient centred.
• To help manage patients within their practices
using specialist advice, feedback and support.
• Ensure excellent communication with referring
doctor, patient and the CATS.
• To maintaining good relationships with our
colleagues working within the health economy.
Who are the team members?
• Dr John Bayliss, Consultant Cardiologist
• Dr Richard Pile, GP with a special interest in
Cardiology (almost!)
• Heart Failure nursing team
• Health Care Assistant
• Cardiac physiologists
• Administrator/s
What will the service provide?
• Routine cardiology CATS for our locality.
• Referrals triaged by consultant and GPwSI and then seen as
appropriate by the cardiology CATS team
• Diagnostics as required, available locally
• Secondary care referral (if required), through Choose and
Book. We do not accept referrals for chest pain or urgent
problems; these referrals should be directed to secondary
care as usual, including the Rapid Access Chest Pain clinic
• Patients will be seen at St Albans City Hospital on
Wednesday mornings in a joint Consultant and GPwSI clinic,
for new patients and follow ups
• Prescriptions – for up to 14 days
• Primary care educational programme & feedback
Diagnostics
• 24 hour ECG (with a view to eventually offering a
specialist nurse-led arrhythmia clinic)
• 24 hour blood pressure monitoring
• Echocardiography (now available for general
referrals as well as the heart failure diagnostic
clinic)
• ECG interpretation service (for non-routine ECG’s
for which a GP requires a specialist
opinion/advice
How to refer to us
• Email ([email protected] – NOT YET
CREATED!!). Needs to be from an address ending
in “@nhs.net”
• Fax – number TBA
• Post - Cardiology CATS, SACH
• No urgent/RACPC referrals please
So why should I refer to the CATS?
…because the service will be:
• primary care-based
• local & convenient
• good quality
• offering more than before
• preserving relationships with local provider
• saving your practice (& STAHCOM) money!