Nuffield Health
Tunbridge Wells Hospital
Newsflash
GP & Practice Colleagues
Welcome
Issue 23 - 2014
Consultant News and Service updates
Mr Guy Selmon
Consultant Orthopaedic, Spinal and Neck
Surgeon MBBS, FRCS, FRCS (TR and Ortho)
Mr Selmon recently joined the team at Nuffield
Health Tunbridge Wells Hospital which has
enabled us to offer a spinal surgery service.
We are delighted to inform you of our new
Fitness and Wellbeing Centre in Tunbridge
Wells, situated on Knights Park Business
Park, minutes from our hospital.
This fantastic addition to our portfolio
of services for our patients, will allow
us to improve our preventative health
measures, as well as helping our patients
get back to a fully fit and healthy lifestyle.
Finally, a reminder of the Choose and
Book specialties we offer at this hospital:
Cataract surgery, Hip and Knee surgery,
Hand surgery, Elbow and Shoulder
surgery, Pain management, General
Surgery – including both upper GI and
Colorectal procedures, Nose and Throat
and Urology.
Joe Hazel
Hospital Director
Nuffield Health Tunbridge Wells Hospital
To refer patients
Send your named/unnamed referral direct
to us and we will contact your patient.
Tel:
01892 531 111
Fax:
01892 515 689
Email:[email protected]
Online:nuffieldhealth.com
/hospitals/refer
The directory of Consultants can be
found online at nuffieldhealth.com
/healthcare-professionals
Having completed his medical school training at
Guy’s Hospital, he undertook Specialist Registrar
training in Trauma and Orthopaedics. His final
year of training was spent in the spinal unit of
the Royal Adelaide Hospital, Australia which was
a Neuro-Orthopaedic Fellowship in adults. On his
return to the United Kingdom he was appointed
Consultant at the Conquest Hospital in St
Leonards on Sea, Sussex. Here he has developed his interest in adult spinal surgery,
which now forms the vast majority of his practice.
Mr Selmon consults on a Thursday evening at Nuffield Health Tunbridge Wells
Hospital. For further information or to refer your patients please contact his secretary
on 01892 552945 phone/fax or email [email protected]
Miss Pei Pei Cheang
Consultant ENT Surgeon FRCS(ORL-HNS),
MSc, BMedSc(Hons), MBBCh
Miss Cheang is a consultant ENT surgeon in
Tunbridge Wells with a special interest in facial
plastic surgery. She undertakes both adult and
paediatric ENT cases, including general ENT,
nose and sinus problems and voice pathology.
She specialises in nasal surgery, including
reconstruction of facial skin defects and skin
lesions, rhinoplasties and facial aesthetic
surgery.
She completed her undergraduate training
in University of Wales and her higher surgical
training in ENT in the West Midlands. She was
awarded a fellowship by the European Academy
of Facial Plastic Surgery and trained in Europe, London and South Korea.
Miss Cheang consults on a Thursday morning at Nuffield Health Tunbridge Wells
Hospital. For further information or to refer your patients please contact
her secretary on 01892 552945 phone/fax or email christine.forbes@
nuffieldhealth.com.
Referring to Nuffield
Health Hospitals
To refer to a Nuffield Health Hospital
please use the contact details on the
front of this Newsflash or use our
Referrers’ Directory
Patients with Medical Insurance: We
have agreements with all major insurers.
Please have your patient’s insurance
scheme and policy details to hand when
booking. A GP letter is also required.
Patients Self-paying: We provide a full
range of services to patients who are
paying for their own treatment.
NHS Patients: Via Choose and Book
Some procedures are available to patients
through Patient Choice. You and your
patient can select the most convenient
time, date and place of treatment
for NHS services listed on the NHS
Choose and Book web portal. Simply
access the Choose and Book website
(chooseandbook.nhs.uk/) and search for
consultants/procedures available at your
local Nuffield Health Hospital.
Please note: not all Nuffield Health
Hospitals offer Choose and Book
treatment. For assistance or to find out
more about the Patient Choice at your
local hospital, please contact the Nuffield
Health Choose and Book Contact Centre:
Tel: 08000 155 020
Fax: 08452 803 251
Email:[email protected]
Advances in Breast Care at Nuffield Health
When breast cancer is suspected, women find
waiting the most difficult thing. Women presenting
with a breast symptom or concern can be seen
at Nuffield Health Tunbridge Wells Hospital
within a couple of days and sometimes same day
appointments are available.
We run a multidisciplinary one-stop clinic and
biopsies are taken the same day. The results can
be obtained rapidly for discussion in the weekly
MDT. Should a breast cancer be diagnosed, then
appropriate treatment can be planned with biweekly operating sessions allowing minimal waiting
times.
Mrs Chalmers Breast and
Oncoplastic Surgeon
Working with the same close knit team of consultant radiologists, surgeons,
pathologists and oncologists across both NHS and private sectors provides a
continuity of care and decision-making for breast cancer patients and allows
rapid access to these specialist services.
Pre-operative diagnosis of node positive disease has been revolutionised by
using ultrasonic contrast (microbubbles) to facilitate percutaneous biopsy of
the sentinel node, reducing the risk of requiring a second operation to clear
the axilla. This facility is now available at the Nuffield Health Tunbridge Wells
Hospital, usually within days of diagnosis. Advanced surgical techniques are
employed to conserve the breast where at all possible and provide nipplesparing approaches to mastectomy through small and hidden incisions when
appropriate.
Support and access to information at this difficult
time are vital and we are delighted to announce
the appointment of our new MacMillan Clinical
Nurse Specialist,Kirstin Poole, right. Direct access
to specialist nurse support is available from
diagnosis throughout oncological treatment and
chemotherapy and during the follow-up period
along with access to specialist psychological
support services when required.
For further information please contact Mrs
Chalmers secretary at Nuffield Health Tunbridge
Wells Hospital on 01892 530305.
The Nuffield Health
Promise
GP Learning Programme
Our free GP Learning Programme is a great way
to fulfil your CPD requirements.
For information on events taking place at
Nuffield Health Tunbridge Wells Hospital please
visit our website, telephone 01892 552932
or email [email protected]
The Nuffield Health Promise is our pledge to
our self paying patients, where we ensure
that they receive a clear and transparent
price for treatment, the very best in clinical
care, and with no time limits on after care**.
Contact us:
Facts at a glance
Information on our latest Infection Control or Patient Satisfaction statistics
can be found on our website at nuffieldhealth.com
01892 552 932
[email protected]
*Not including private patient units at NHS hospitals. Local area defined as within 15 miles of the Nuffield Health hospital. We will match against written quotes only. Promise is valid for patients paying for themselves. **Where possible, we
promise to assist you to receive any follow up advice, treatment or care that is clinically required from your Consultant for as long as you may require it. If a prosthesis is used as part of your treatment this is guaranteed for the manufacturer’s
official lifetime of that prosthesis. “Clinically required” indicates where further intervention and/or monitoring of a patient’s condition is deemed necessary as a direct result of surgical intervention.