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Refer a patient to the Respiratory Medicine and Transitional Care Unit

This page includes information on how to refer a patient to the Respiratory Medicine and Transitional Care team at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH). 

Please see our admission criteria for information about the diagnoses treated by the Respiratory Medicine and Transitional Care team:

Respiratory admission criteria

Transitional Care Unit admission criteria

How to refer a patient

For an outpatient appointment

Referrals are usually by letter (often preceded by a telephone conversation) normally to a named consultant or team although referrals without a named consultant will be allocated to the most appropriate consultant. Referrals can be by email where the ‘referred to’ consultants email is known.

The address for referrals is:

Respiratory Consultant
Great Ormond Street Hospital
Great Ormond Street
London
WC1N 3JH

Inter-hospital transfer

Please contact the respiratory department.

Telephone: 020 7405 9200 bleep 0635 (in-hours) and 0820 (out-of-hours)

If the transfer is an emergency, such as patients that need life or limb-saving treatment at GOSH within a few hours or urgent patients that need transfer to GOSH but not in the emergency category.

How to get advice

For patients known to GOSH

For emergency and urgent patients please use the contact details above.

For other enquiries where the patient's GOSH consultant is known, please contact the main switchboard on 0207 405 9200 and ask to be put through to the consultant in question.

If the patient’s GOSH consultant is unknown, please call the main hospital switchboard and ask to be put through to a respiratory secretary who will be able to route the call to the right consultant.

For patients not known to GOSH

For emergency and urgent patients please use the contact details above. For other enquiries please call the main hospital switchboard and ask to be put through to a respiratory secretary who will seek out the right consultant to respond to the enquiry.

Consultants and key staff members

Senior nursing staff

Lung function laboratory

Respiratory Sleep Unit

Cystic fibrosis

Services and facilities available

Respiratory Medicine and Transitional Care has a multidisciplinary approach to the investigation and management of children with acute or chronic lung disease or complex respiratory conditions.

There are approximately 200 respiratory in-patient admissions per annum to our 11-bed Badger Ward, as well as over 1200 sleep studies, performed in the Sleep Unit and on Badger Ward. The in-patient service comprises a mix of children with complex and chronic short and long-term lung disease including a significant proportion with congenital anomalies of the upper and lower airway.

The respiratory unit runs five transitional care beds for children on long term ventilation. Miffy Ward is a five-bed Transitional Care Unit for children of all ages needing long-term respiratory support and their families. Length of stay is between three to six months, whilst a care package is created to enable the child to be discharged back into their local community.

The secondary and tertiary care of approximately 200 cystic fibrosis (CF) patients is a major part of the current workload. There is a well established multi-disciplinary team of professionals dedicated to the care of children with CF.