2020 Consultant Directory Expert healthcare for your patients Contacts Contacts 2 Hospital contacts About Spire Little Aston Hospital 3 Main hospital How to refer your patients 4 Phone: 0121 353 2444 Self-funding patients 5 GP Hotline Phone: 0121 580 7230 GP online referral guide 6 Outpatient bookings department GP education 7 Phone: 0121 580 7151 Fax: 0121 353 6897 GP support 7 Self-pay patient enquiries and bookings Spire Little Aston hospital has some of the best facilities and Clinics and services 8 Phone: 0121 514 7235 clinical staff in the region. Diagnostic imaging Breast Care Clinic 8 X-ray and ultrasound: 0121 580 7141 Orthopaedic consultant at Spire Little Aston Hospital MRI and CT: 0121 580 7129 Diagnostic Imaging 8 Pathology enquiries Histopathology & Pathology 9 Phone: 0121 580 7407 Fax: 0121 353 8715 Endoscopy 9 About Spire Little Aston Hospital Pharmacy Immigration Medical Clinic 9 Phone: 0121 580 7408 At Spire Healthcare we are committed to Our nursing staff Fax : 0121 580 7115 Private GP Service 9 delivering excellent individual care and customer All our nurses are highly qualified and dedicated Physiotherapy service to all our patients, from the time they to caring for patients in a professional manner. For Phone: 0121 580 7131 ultimate reassurance, we have a fully trained clinical Directory listings 10 first get in touch with us until after their Fax: 0121 580 9737 team equipped to deal with medical emergencies Index 28 treatment is complete. Our dedicated and 24 hours a day. Wards highly trained team aim to consistently achieve Wyndley Ward: 0121 580 7213 excellent results. For us it’s more than just All the facilities you’d expect and more Bracebridge Ward: 0121 580 7345 treating patients, it’s about looking after people. — Our 34 private rooms are set in pleasant NHS referrals surroundings and all have satellite television, Phone: 0121 580 7294 It’s our team that really set us apart free wifi access and personal nurse call system. Fax: 0121 353 6897 We know that you insist on the highest standards of In addition to our private rooms, we offer: care for the patients who put their trust in you, and you — Extended Recovery Unit (ERU) can be sure that our team will continue that care. For us it’s more than just treating patients, it’s about giving — 15 consulting rooms Key contacts patients, their family and friends the most positive — Three laminar flow operating theatres experience we possibly can in our hospital. — An endoscopy suite Hospital Director — Two outpatient procedure rooms Phone: 0121 580 7263 Our consultants — On-site CSSD – decontamination and sterilisation Every consultant working at Spire Little Aston Hospital is Director of Clinical Services department on the specialist register of the General Medical Council Phone: 0121 580 7261 and has met our practising privileges criteria. — Paediatric services for children from three years old Primary Care Managers We know continuity of care is important. Once a patient — Breast care nurses Lauren McLarney: 0121 580 7230 has chosen his or her consultant, we will make sure that — Pharmacy Louise Downie: 0121 580 7230 he or she is looked after by the same consultant, from the first appointment and throughout all treatment and Emergency admissions follow-up care. Call 0121 580 7213 and ask for the nurse in charge. The hospital does not have an accident and emergency facility. 2 Spire Little Aston Hospital Consultant Directory 2020 3 How to refer your patients Self-funding patients At Spire Little Aston we are committed to delivering excellent individual care and customer service to all our patients, from the time they first get in touch with us until after their treatment For help in arranging self-funded consultations and treatment, including is complete. Our dedicated and highly trained team aim to guide prices for investigations and consistently deliver excellent patient care. We work to ensure surgery, please ask patients to contact every patient is treated as if they were our own relative. our self-pay team on: Phone: 0121 514 7235 Email: [email protected] Self-funding patients Our fixed price packages* offer the Self-funding patients are able to be seen by a consultant without a GP referral, although a letter is often preferred. following benefits: We can provide a tailored fixed price inclusive care package* with no hidden extras on a range of diagnostic tests, — No waiting lists treatments and surgical procedures. For more information, please call our self-pay team on 0121 514 7235. — Fast access to leading consultants 1 Use Spire Connect to upload the referral letter. Call 0121 580 7230 if you have any queries. — Treatment dates to suit the patient 2 Our team will contact your patient to discuss consultants, dates, times and pricing. — Personalised support and care 3 We’ll update you on your patients’ progress. Typical treatments that can be self-funded: — Knee, hip, or shoulder surgery Patients with private medical insurance — Varicose vein treatment — Hernia repair A referral letter is generally required from you before any insured patient can be seen by a consultant. Patients can call our bookings team on 0121 580 7151 to arrange a convenient appointment. — Back pain treatment — Weight loss surgery 1 Use Spire Connect to refer your patient. All patients using private insurance will need a referral letter. — CT, MRI and ultrasound scans 2 Our team will contact your patient to discuss consultants, times and dates. — Cosmetic surgery 3 Your patient needs to contact their insurer to make sure they are covered for their appointment to see their — Cataract surgery chosen consultant. — Endoscopy procedures 4 We’ll update you on your patients’ progress. *Please see a copy of Spire Healthcare’s patient terms and conditions for full details. Prices vary per treatment and are dependent on each NHS patients patient’s individual circumstances and needs. Full details of the services offered can be found on the NHS e-Referral system (https://www.ebs.ncrs.nhs.uk). Our aim is to make the referral process as quick and easy as possible. Please use the NHS e-Referral system to refer your patients to us. We are no longer able to accept NHS referral letters from primary care by any other means (eg fax or email). Urgent/unplanned admissions Referral letters If you have a specific consultant to refer to and you have their contact Referral letters for private patients can be: details, you can organise this with them — Faxed to 0121 353 6897 directly. Alternatively, you can call us — Submitted online at https://.spireconnect.spirehealthcare.com and ask for the ‘nurse in charge’ of the wards, who will take initial details of — Emailed with encryption to [email protected] the patient and organise the consultant for you. The hospital does not have an accident and emergency facility. 4 Spire Little Aston Hospital Consultant Directory 2020 5 GP education GP support We provide regular GP conferences and Spire Little Aston’s onsite teams offer prompt evening seminars, which take the form and friendly assistance for GPs and primary of lectures, Q&As, demonstrations care professionals to help you in looking after and clinical case presentations by our your patients. specialist consultants. Primary Care Team Our events are free of charge and are generally evening or half-day sessions to provide flexibility Our Primary Care Managers are responsible for to you. They are held on-site at Spire Little Aston liaising with GP practices and other primary care Hospital or at a local venue. professionals. Their role is to familiarise you with our services and consultants and to make it as easy as In addition we can bring consultants to your surgery possible for your patients to be seen and treated at for one of your practice or cluster education sessions. Spire Little Aston Hospital. You can choose the topic and date and we’ll bring a hamper lunch prepared by our on-site chefs. GP The team can be contacted on: registrars, practice nurses and any medical students Phone: 0121 580 7230 GP online referral guide are welcome too. Email: [email protected] Imaging and other referral types How to find out about our events Spire Connect enables practice staff to log Self-Pay Team in and send secure, instant online referrals You can make referrals for radiological investigations Search ‘Spire Little Aston GP Education’ by selecting ‘Refer a patient for imaging’ under the Call our Primary Care Team on 0121 580 7230 Our self-pay team are here to help with arranging to Spire Healthcare hospitals. The system self-pay consultations and treatment, including guide specialty list. To make a referral for physiotherapy, Email: [email protected] is designed to be as simple and efficient as podiatry, dietetics, psychology etc, select one of these prices for investigations and surgery. possible, while protecting all confidential from under ‘Standard Referral’ in the specialty list. All events hosted by Spire Little Aston offer information within secure servers. CPD points. One-off private treatment at a fixed price* Attaching patient notes Be the first to know about our upcoming events — Available for in-patient and day-case procedures, Visit https://spireconnect.spirehealthcare.com or click It is possible to attach patient notes to the form. You will via our email invites, join our mailing list today by subject to patient pre-assessment. on Spire Connect from the GP information and resources need to save the notes in a common format such as a emailing [email protected]. — Normally includes all consultant and hospital tab on our website. text or word document (.rtf, .pdf, .doc, .txt), a spreadsheet fees, out-patient physiotherapy and one follow up GP registration (.xls or .csv) or an image format (eg .bmp, .jpg).