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Please see below for the latest primary care updates.
GP liaison service
The Royal Free London (RFL) GP liaison service is open for you as an informal route to raise an enquiry or concern about any of our services. This includes services at Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital, or any of our satellite sites. It is a non-urgent and non-clinical service.
When contacting the service, please include the following information:
- patient’s details (name, date of birth and NHS number)
- department the enquiry relates to
- hospital the enquiry relates to
We will not be able to investigate your enquiry without the above information. We endeavour to respond to your enquiry within 10 working days from the date the above information is provided.
You can contact the GP liaison service by email: rf.
The GP liaison service is only open to NHS colleagues and other healthcare professionals. Please do not share these contact details with your patients.
Patient referral and appointment queries
Patients should contact our outpatient appointments call centre if they have any questions about their care. This includes information about referrals, appointments, and test results.
If the team is unable to answer a patient’s question, they will forward the call to the relevant service.
The call centre can be contacted by calling: 020 7443 9757. It is open Monday to Friday (excluding bank holidays), 8am-6pm.
Full details can be found on our website.
Clinical assessment service introduced for hepatology and neurology services
The clinical assessment service (CAS) has been introduced for the neurology service at Barnet Hospital and Chase Farm Hospital, and the hepatology service at the Royal Free Hospital.
This means patients referred into these services will be clinically triaged to determine the next steps for their care.
A triaging clinician will carry out the clinical assessment during a triage appointment which does not involve the patient.
Information about the triage appointment is for GPs only and not for sharing.
CAS triage has six possible outcomes:
- New appointment not required – letter of advice sent to GP and patient
- New appointment not required – appointment already exists
- New appointment not required – referral to another service (GP or RFL team)
- First appointment required
- First appointment required with investigations booked beforehand
- Investigations booked with virtual review by consultant
Following CAS triage, GPs and patients will be sent a triage outcome letter. This may include clinical advice and guidance provided by the triaging clinician.
This letter will be addressed to the GP and posted to them, with a copy sent to the patient.
The neurology service at the Royal Free Hospital, and the hepatology services at Barnet Hospital and Chase Farm Hospital and general urology services across the trust plan to go live with CAS for new referrals in the coming months.
Jennifer Cross appointed medical director
We are pleased to announce that Jennifer Cross has been appointed to the substantive role of medical director at the Royal Free Hospital.
Jennifer, who has been interim medical director since July 2022, steps into the role with immediate effect.
Alongside her medical director role, Jennifer was previously Royal Free London’s chief clinical information officer, focusing on the delivery of the trust's digital strategy.
Introducing patient initiated follow up for ophthalmology
In December, our ophthalmology service introduced the PIFU pathway across the Royal Free London for specific conditions within oculoplastics and corneal services.
Diagnoses considered with clinician approval include blepharitis, dry eye disease, allergic eye disease, recurrent corneal erosion, episcleritis, recurrent herpes simplex keratitis, pterygium, inactive mild thyroid eye disease, chalazion or previous tumour excision.
PIFU means patients have the choice of requesting follow-up appointments themselves or continue to be booked appointments by the trust. This will not affect those on urgent or cancer pathways. Patients who are added to the PIFU pathway will be set an end date by our clinicians. If a patient has not booked a follow-up by this date, they will be discharged back to their optometrist/GP.
If a patient is added to the PIFU pathway, they will receive a letter with the following information:
- confirmation they have been added to the PIFU pathway
- red flag symptoms that would need a follow up appointment
- end date of their PIFU pathway
- contact details to arrange a follow up appointment
This letter will also be sent to the patient’s GP.
Breast screening - please update your records
Please ensure that your patient records are updated before you send them reminders to book a breast screening appointment.
Breast screening for women aged 50 to 71 is scheduled every three years, with the first invitation sent automatically by their 53rd birthday if they are registered with a GP practice in London. Women aged over 71 can self-refer for screening.
Your practice will be emailed when 50 or more patients are due for breast screening. When you receive this, please contact your eligible patients to advise them that they will receive an appointment invitation letter soon and encourage them to attend.
Breast screening outcome reports are sent via post, and we would be grateful if you could update your records when these are received to ensure women are only contacted to book a screening appointment when they are due for it.
If you would like additional information, please contact the North and Central and East London health promotion team at rf-tr.
This is monitored Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm (except bank holidays).
You can also visit the London breast screening website for guidance and information: www.
Diagnostic testing turnaround times
Primary care colleagues can expect to receive test results from cardiology and pathology within the following timeframes. These start when a sample is received in our laboratories, or the test has been completed. They are subject to change.
Cardiology
Royal Free Hospital
- 24-hour blood pressure monitoring: one week
- 24-hour ECG: three weeks
- Echo: two weeks
- ECG: one week Barnet Hospital/Chase Farm Hospital/Edgware Community Hospital
- 24-hour blood pressure monitoring: one day
- 24-hour ECG: three weeks
- Echo: two weeks
- ECG: one week
All ECG results are sent with an automatically generated algorithm, rather than a separate clinical report. Results for the other tests listed above are sent with a cardiac physiologist report.
If you have a specific clinical question about your patients’ results, please submit an advice and guidance request via e-RS. Do not submit a request for general comment on a patient’s results.
Pathology
All RFL sites
- Biochemistry tests: three days
- Haematology tests: two days If you have any questions about your patient's results', please contact the pathology results helpline:
- Royal Free Hospital o 020 3758 2070
- Barnet Hospital/Chase Farm Hospital/Edgware Community Hospital
- 020 8216 4885
- rf-tr.barnetlab.helpdesk@nhs.net
The results helplines are open Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm. For tQuest support enquiries, please email helpdesk
Imaging
Royal Free Hospital
- X-rays: ten days
- Ultrasounds: two days
- Dexa scans: three to four weeks Barnet Hospital/Chase Farm Hospital/Potters Bar Hospital/Finchley Memorial Hospital/Edgware Community Hospital
- X-rays: ten days
- Ultrasounds: two days
- Dexa scans: one to two weeks
Please ensure that paper referrals include the signature of the referring GP. We are legally unable to accept referrals without a valid signature. The patient should be given the T-Quest printout for X-ray requests (this does not require a signature).
If you have any questions about your patient’s results, please contact the radiology teams:
- Royal Free Hospital
- Barnet Hospital/Chase Farm Hospital/Potters Bar Hospital/Finchley Memorial Hospital/Edgware Community Hospital
Both mailboxes are monitored Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm.
GP liaison service
The Royal Free London (RFL) GP liaison service is open for you as an informal route to raise an enquiry or concern about any of our services. This includes services at Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital, or any of our satellite sites. It is a non-urgent and non-clinical service.
When contacting the service, please include the following information:
- patient’s details (name, date of birth and NHS number)
- department the enquiry relates to
- hospital the enquiry relates to
We will not be able to investigate your enquiry without the above information. We endeavour to respond to your enquiry within 10 working days from the date the above information is provided.
You can contact the GP liaison service by email: rf.
The GP liaison service is only open to NHS colleagues and other healthcare professionals. Please do not share these contact details with your patients.
Thank you
On behalf of our staff and patients, we would like to take this opportunity to thank you for the support you have given to the Royal Free London over the past year.
It’s been a year of challenge and change for the NHS and life at the Royal Free London has been no different.
Ongoing work to reduce our waiting lists, persistent pressures on our emergency services and industrial action across the public sector has impacted how we provide care for our patients.
We are hugely grateful for your ongoing support – we would not have been able to ensure the very best care for our patients without you.
This is the last newsletter of the year; the next update will be shared in January. However, you may receive separate messages before this.
We wish you a safe and happy festive season.
Patient referral and appointment queries
Patients should contact our outpatient appointments call centre if they have any questions about their care. This includes information about referrals, appointments, and test results.
If the team is unable to answer a patient’s question, they will forward the call to the relevant service.
The call centre can be contacted by calling: 020 7443 9757. It is open Monday to Friday (excluding bank holidays), 8am-6pm.
Full details can be found on our website.
Junior doctors’ industrial action in December
Junior doctors at the Royal Free London are due to take part in a 72-hour strike from 7am on Wednesday 20 December until 7am on Saturday 23 December.
The strike action will impact all our hospitals — Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital and the Royal Free Hospital. Please be assured we are working hard to ensure we minimise disruption to services.
Emergency care will be prioritised and patients seeking urgent treatment will be seen.
Patients will be contacted directly if there are any changes to their appointments.
Full details can be found on our website.
Referring adults to the lipid service: guidance
When referring patients over the age of 16 to the Royal Free London’s adult lipid services, please ensure that you follow the guidance in the relevant form.
This sets out when a referral should be made via e-RS or if a clinical advice and guidance request should be submitted.
Discontinuation of anti-N SARS-CoV-2 (Nucleocapsid) testing
Health Services Laboratories (HSL) is no longer offering the Roche anti-N (nucleocapsid) SARS-CoV-2 testing. HSL will continue to offer the Roche quantitative anti-S (spike) SARS-CoV-2.
Full details have been provided by HSL.
For any queries, please contact Wendy Chatterton, virology service manager: wendy.
Temporary changes to Royal Free Hospital x-ray service
The opening times for the walk-in x-ray service at the Royal Free Hospital have temporarily changed.
It is currently open to GP referrals Monday to Friday, 9am to 3.30pm, except bank holidays.
We have made these changes as we are installing new state-of-the-art x-ray equipment. This will provide higher quality images and improve patient experience.
These temporary changes are expected to be in place until summer 2024.
Share your views: Start Well public consultation open
Share your views on proposed changes to how and where some maternity, neonatal and children’s surgical services across North Central London could be delivered in the future.
These include proposals:
- to close maternity and neonatal services at the Royal Free Hospital or Whittington Health NHS Trust
- to close the birthing suites at Edgware Birth Centre, while retaining antenatal and postnatal care on the Edgware Community Hospital site
- to consolidate some surgery for babies and very young children in centres of expertise at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust and University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
The aim is to ensure patients get the very best care, in the right place at the right time for many years to come. No decisions have yet been made.
The consultation, led by North Central London Integrated Care Board and NHS England Specialised Commissioning, closes on Sunday 17 March 2024.
For more information, please visit our website.
Encourage your patients to register for My RFL Care Patient Portal
My RFL Care Patient Portal is a secure online system provided by the Royal Free London that allows patients to view information from their hospital record. Since its launch in 2020, over 250,000 patients have registered.
To register, patients must be a patient at the Royal Free London - Barnet Hospital, Royal Free Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital or at one of our satellite sites - 18 years and older, have a valid UK mobile number recorded on the Royal Free London's hospital system, and an NHS number to complete the registration process. When a new outpatient appointment is scheduled, eligible patients automatically receive a text message inviting them to join My RFL Care.
Through this portal, patients can access and view various clinical documents, such as patient appointments, letters, GP discharge summaries, lab results and radiology reports. The portal ensures a swift and secure availability of results, with routine lab results accessible within seven days and pathology and radiology reports within 30 days.
The portal can be accessed from a computer, tablet, or smartphone.
We would be grateful if you could promote My RFL Care to your patients by sharing details about it during your patient consultations and displaying posters in your GP surgery.
These have a QR code which leads directly to the portal, to make it as easy as possible for patients to sign up.
Full details about My RFL Care can be found on our website.
Diagnostic testing turnaround times
Primary care colleagues can expect to receive test results from cardiology and pathology within the following timeframes. These start when a sample is received in our laboratories, or the test has been completed. They are subject to change.
Cardiology
Royal Free Hospital
- 24-hour blood pressure monitoring: one week
- 24-hour ECG: three weeks
- Echo: two weeks
- ECG: one week
Barnet Hospital/Chase Farm Hospital/Edgware Community Hospital
- 24-hour blood pressure monitoring: one day
- 24-hour ECG: three weeks
- Echo: two weeks
- ECG: one week
All ECG results are sent with an automatically generated algorithm, rather than a separate clinical report. Results for the other tests listed above are sent with a cardiac physiologist report.
If you have a specific clinical question about your patients’ results, please submit an advice and guidance request via e-RS. Do not submit a request for general comment on a patient’s results.
Pathology
All RFL sites
- Biochemistry tests: three days
- Haematology tests: two days
If you have any questions about your patient's results', please contact the pathology results helpline:
- Royal Free Hospital
- 020 3758 2070
- rf.
biochemhaemaddon @nhs.net
- Barnet Hospital/Chase Farm Hospital/Edgware Community Hospital
- 020 8216 4885
- rf-tr.
barnetlab. helpdesk @nhs.net
The results helplines are open Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm.
For tQuest support enquiries, please email helpdesk
Imaging
Royal Free Hospital
- X-rays: ten days
- Ultrasounds: two days
- Dexa scans: three to four weeks
Barnet Hospital/Chase Farm Hospital/Potters Bar Hospital/Finchley Memorial Hospital/Edgware Community Hospital
- X-rays: ten days
- Ultrasounds: two days
- Dexa scans: one to two weeks
Please ensure that paper referrals include the signature of the referring GP. We are legally unable to accept referrals without a valid signature.
For T-Quest requests a signature is not required.
The patient should be given the t-Quest printout for X-ray requests
(this does not require a signature).
If you have any questions about your patient’s results, please contact the radiology teams:
- Royal Free Hospital
o rf.radiologyenquiries @nhs.net - Barnet Hospital/Chase Farm Hospital/Potters Bar Hospital/Finchley Memorial Hospital/Edgware Community Hospital
o rf-tr.bh-radiology@nhs.net
Both mailboxes are monitored Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm.
Patient referral and appointment queries
Patients should contact our outpatient appointments call centre if they have any questions about their care. This includes information about referrals, appointments, and test results.
If the team is unable to answer a patient’s question, they will forward the call to the relevant service.
The call centre can be contacted by calling: 020 7443 9757. It is open Monday to Friday (excluding bank holidays), 8am-6pm.
New RFL website launches
After months of development and extensive engagement with a diverse range of people with different user needs, our new website is now live. Thank you to all primary care colleagues who shared their feedback.
A dedicated section has been created for GPs on the site, incorporating what you told us you would like to see. You can view this by clicking ‘For GPs’ at the top of the website on the right-hand side by clicking here.
This section includes the latest diagnostic turnaround times, GP bypass numbers for the Royal Free Hospital, contact details to follow up imaging and blood test results and some referral information.
It also includes links to other useful information such as our patient advice and liaison services, patient transport, our patient portal, finding a consultant and a service.
On some of our service pages you will be able to find generic contact details for services and referral information which is not in the GP section. Some consultant profiles have their NHS email addresses or contact details for their secretaries.
Launching the new website is just the beginning — we will constantly review and evolve it, seek feedback, listen to users, and make changes where they are needed. If you have any feedback, please let us know by emailing: rf.
Gillian Smith appointed chief medical officer
We are pleased to announce that Gillian Smith has been appointed to the substantive role of chief medical officer of the RFL.
Gillian has been the interim group chief medical officer since 2022 and was previously medical director of the Royal Free Hospital. A consultant urologist by background, she has had a range of clinical and professional leadership experience with a focus on improvement and service transformation.
Reminder: changes to adult gastroenterology referrals
The RFL has changed the way direct access adult gastroenterology referrals are made.
GPs are reminded to refer Barnet Hospital and Chase Farm Hospital patients to the gastroenterology clinical assessment service via e-RS and not by email.
Referrals will be triaged by a gastroenterologist who will request the endoscopic procedure on the trust’s electronic patient record. The patient will be booked for their procedure and the results communicated to both patient and GP via letter, once a consultant has reviewed the report and any histology and biopsies are taken. The gastroenterology service will arrange on going care or discharge the patient from the service as appropriate.
If you have any queries please contact Eleanor Brothwood, service manager, on: Eleanor.
Lung function reporting changes
The way lung function test results are shared with GP practices has changed.
Results from the community diagnostic centre at Finchley Memorial Hospital are now being sent to GP practices via Docman Connect, instead of email.
Royal Free Hospital infectious diseases and respiratory services to launch clinical assessment service
Infectious diseases and respiratory services at the Royal Free Hospital will be launching a clinical assessment service (CAS).
The infectious diseases service will go live on Monday 20 November and the respiratory services on Monday 27 November. Patients referred into these services will be clinically triaged to determine the next steps for their care.
GPs will be able to refer patients via e-RS.
The triaging clinician will conduct the clinical assessment during a triage appointment which does not involve the patient. Information about the date or time of the triage appointment should not be shared with the patient by primary care.
CAS triage has six possible outcomes:
- New appointment not required – letter of advice to GP and patient
- New appointment not required – appointment already exists
- New appointment not required – refer to another service (GP or RFL team)
- First appointment required
- First appointment required with investigations booked beforehand
- Investigations booked with virtual review by consultant
GPs and patients will be sent a CAS triage outcome letter including any clinical advice and guidance provided by the triaging clinician.
We already run a CAS model across seven outpatient services, and we are seeing a positive impact on access to treatment as result. We will be rolling CAS out to further specialities in the coming year.
Guidance on labelling pathology samples
When sending a pathology sample to RFL labs, please ensure only one label is attached to the sample. If one label is not attached, this may cause delays to process the sample and share the results.
If a patient requires more than one test, the number of samples sent to our laboratories must match the number of labels generated on the tQuest form.
You can read all the details in the document attached.
Diagnostic testing turnaround times
Primary care colleagues can expect to receive test results from cardiology and pathology within the following timeframes. These start when a sample is received in our laboratories, or the test has been completed. They are subject to change.
Cardiology
Royal Free Hospital
- 24-hour blood pressure monitoring: one week
- 24-hour ECG: two weeks
- Echo: two weeks
- ECG: one week
Barnet Hospital/Chase Farm Hospital/Edgware Community Hospital
- 24-hour blood pressure monitoring: one day
- 24-hour ECG: three weeks
- Echo: two weeks
- ECG: one week
All ECG results are sent with an automatically generated algorithm, rather than a separate clinical report. Results for the other tests listed above are sent with a cardiac physiologist report.
If you have a specific clinical question about your patients’ results, please submit an advice and guidance request via e-RS. Do not submit a request for general comment on a patient’s results.
Pathology
All RFL sites
- Biochemistry tests: three days
- Haematology tests: two days
If you have any questions about your patient's results, please contact the pathology results helpline:
- Royal Free Hospital
o 020 3758 2070
o rf.biochemhaemaddon @nhs.net - Barnet Hospital/Chase Farm Hospital/Edgware Community Hospital
o 020 8216 4885
o rf-tr.barnetlab. helpdesk @nhs.net
The results helplines are open Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm.
For tQuest support enquiries, please email helpdesk
Imaging
Royal Free Hospital
- X-rays: four days
- Ultrasounds: two days
- Dexa scans: three to four weeks
Barnet Hospital/Chase Farm Hospital/Potters Bar Hospital/Finchley Memorial Hospital/Edgware Community Hospital
- X-rays: four days
- Ultrasounds: two days
- Dexa scans: one to two weeks
Please ensure that paper referrals include the signature of the referring GP. We are legally unable to accept referrals without a valid signature.
If you have any questions about your patient’s results, please contact the radiology teams:
- Royal Free Hospital
o rf.radiologyenquiries @nhs.net - Barnet Hospital/Chase Farm Hospital/Potters Bar Hospital/Finchley Memorial Hospital/Edgware Community Hospital
o rf-tr.bh-radiology @nhs.net
Both mailboxes are monitored Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm.
GP liaison service
The Royal Free London (RFL) GP liaison service is open for you as an informal route to raise an enquiry or concern about any of our services. This includes services at Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital, or any of our satellite sites. It is a non-urgent and non-clinical service.
When contacting the service, please include the following information:
- patient’s details (name, date of birth and NHS number)
- department the enquiry relates to
- hospital the enquiry relates to
We will not be able to investigate your enquiry without the above information. We endeavour to respond to your enquiry within 10 working days from the date the above information is provided.
You can contact the GP liaison service by email: rf.
The GP liaison service is only open to NHS colleagues and other healthcare professionals. Please do not share these contact details with your patients.
Patient referral and appointment queries
Patients should contact our outpatient appointments call centre if they have any questions about their care. This includes information about referrals, appointments, and test results.
If the team is unable to answer a patient’s question, they will forward the call to the relevant service.
The call centre can be contacted by calling: 020 7443 9757. It is open Monday to Friday (excluding bank holidays), 8am-6pm.
Visit this link to access more.
New group chief executive announced
Peter Landstrom has been appointed the new group chief executive of the RFL.
Peter has been the acting chief executive since May, after he joined the trust in 2022 as group chief delivery officer and deputy group chief executive.
He has held a number of senior leadership roles and has a strong NHS operational background.
Read more about his appointment.
Changes to breast screening invitations
The NHS Breast Screening Programme is now sending invitations for breast screening to women who are aged between 50 and 70 for screening by a specific date regardless of the GP practice they are registered with.
Before the pause of the London NHS Breast Screening Programme in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, women were invited for screening in batches based on their registered GP practice.
The changes to invitations has a benefit for the women invited as they will be called every three years when they are due for screening. For GP practices, it may mean that your eligible women will not be invited as one large cohort once every three years. Instead, they will be invited as one large cohort but also in smaller numbers throughout the three-year screening round. To help reduce demand following the pandemic, some women are being invited up to 12 months earlier than their test due date.
To book, change, or cancel an appointment, or for general queries, women should contact the London breast screening programme appointment hub on 020 3758 2024 or by visiting www.london-breastscreening.org.uk.
Chase Farm Hospital urgent treatment centre opening hours
From Monday 16 October, we will be reinstating the original opening hours for the Chase Farm Hospital urgent treatment centre (UTC).
The centre will be open from 8am to 10pm and patients will be booked in until 9pm. Please advise patients not to attend the UTC after 9pm.
To help better manage the demand for the UTC, and to ensure patients are receiving the right care in the right place, we are continuing to advise patients to contact their GP about dressing changes. The UTC is continuing to do first dressings and changing second, complex, dressings or those which have originated from the UTC.
If your patients need urgent medical assistance and their condition is not life-threatening, please ask them to call 111 or (for those aged five and over) visit 111.nhs.uk.
Docman go-live - emergency department discharge summaries
As many of you will be aware, the Royal Free London has gone live with Docman Connect to standardise all clinical correspondence to GP practices.
Following a successful pilot, from Wednesday 4 October, all practices within North Central London Integrated Care System and Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care System started receiving emergency discharge summaries via this platform. You have been receiving inpatient discharge summaries since Thursday 6 July.
We will share a further update when we start sending outpatient clinical correspondence via Docman Connect.
This means that you will no longer receive email or hard copy letters if you have the Docman Connect system.
If you have any queries, please contact your Docman support team in the first instance. They will contact the Royal Free London on your behalf if they need to.
New prolonged jaundice referral form
The Royal Free Hospital has introduced a new referral form for babies with suspected prolonged jaundice.
Please use this referral form and return the completed form to: rf-tr.
Diagnostic testing turnaround times
Primary care colleagues can expect to receive test results from cardiology and pathology within the following timeframes. These start when a sample is received in our laboratories, or the test has been completed. They are subject to change.
Cardiology
- Royal Free Hospital
- 24-hour blood pressure monitoring: one week 24-hour ECG: two weeks
- Echo: two weeks
- ECG: one week
Barnet Hospital / Chase Farm Hospital / Edgware Community Hospital
- 24-hour blood pressure monitoring: one day
- 24-hour ECG: three weeks
- Echo: two weeks
- ECG: one week
All ECG results are sent with an automatically generated algorithm, rather than a separate clinical report. Results for the other tests listed above are sent with a cardiac physiologist report.
If you have a specific clinical question about your patients’ results, please submit an advice and guidance request via e-RS. Do not submit a request for general comment on a patient’s results.
Pathology
All RFL sites
- Biochemistry tests: three days
- Haematology tests: two days
If you have any questions about your patient's results, If you have any questions about your patient's results, please contact pathology:
Royal Free Hospital
o 020 3758 2070
Barnet Hospital / Chase Farm Hospital / Edgware Community Hospital
- 020 8216 4885
- rf-tr.
barnetlab. helpdesk @nhs.net
The results helplines are open Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm. For tQuest support enquiries, please email helpdesk
Imaging
- Royal Free Hospital
- X-rays: ten days Ultrasounds: two days
- Dexa scans: three to four weeks
Barnet Hospital / Chase Farm Hospital / Potters Bar Hospital / Finchley Memorial Hospital / Edgware Community Hospital
- X-rays: ten days
- Ultrasounds: two days
- Dexa scans: one to two weeks
Please ensure that paper referrals include the signature of the referring GP. We are legally unable to accept referrals without a valid signature. The patient should be given the t-Quest printout for X-ray requests (this does not require a signature).
If you have any questions about your patient’s results, please contact the radiology teams:
Royal Free Hospital
Barnet Hospital/Chase Farm Hospital/Potters Bar Hospital/Finchley Memorial Hospital/Edgware Community Hospital
Both mailboxes are monitored Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm..