Nuffield Health Tunbridge Wells Hospital
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.
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