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Palliative Care

24h Specialist Medical Advice is available from:
a) Bradford Marie Curie Centre: 01274 337 000
b) Sue Ryder Care Manorlands: 01535 642 308

Obtaining Drugs Out Of Hours

The procedure for issue of controlled drugs out of hours, the current list of drugs and equipment carried by Local Care Direct on call doctors and the out of hours handover form are now available on the Bradford and Airedale palliative care website – please follow click this link: http://www.palliativecare.bradford.nhs.uk/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=1060

A fuller list is detailed at the end of this page

In House

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Ramesh Mehay

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McMillan Richard Dhillon

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DN Pam Parker

GPwSI

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Specialised Outreach Clinics

Name Location Tel Referral Criteria How to refer
Lymphoedema Clinic Marie Curie Centre, Maudsley St, Bradford 01274 337 000

►swelling secondary to cancer or cancer related treatment

►swelling secondary to recurrent infections

►swelling secondary to trauma

►primary swelling due to congenital or hereditary problems

►swelling associated with venous insufficiency (following vasc assessment only)

 

DO NOT SEND:

●DVTs

●acute inflammatory infections

●ABPI < 0.8

●patients with low serum protein/albumin levels

●patients with unstable cardiac/renal failure

●patients with post operative swelling within 8w of surgery

●use referral form
Yorkshire regional service for paediatric oncology St Jame's Univ. Hosp
Leeds
0113 206 4984 ●any child or adolescent with a suspicion of cancer ●use 2 week referral forms
Yorkshire Specialist Register of Cancer in Children and Young People Paediatric Epidemiology Group
30 Hyde Terrace
Leeds LS2 9LN
0113 343 4842
Fax 0113 343 4877
●Population based register on children/young people with malignant and certain benign conditions under age 30 living in Yorkshire at time of diagnosis
 
●use referral form

Hospices & Consultants

Name Location Tel Referral Criteria How to refer
Marie Curie, Bradford        
Leeds Road, Bradford        
Cookridge Hospital, Leeds        

Palliative Care Pharmacists:

Superdrug 14-20 The Broadway BD1 1RY 01274 739085
Cohens Chemist 75 Fagley Road BD2 3LS 01274 637007
Moss Chemists 845 Barkerend Road 803 8QJ 01274 664121
Goodall & Butler 480 Little Horton Lane 805 OPA 01274 722564
Moss Chemists Park Rd. Med. Centre 805 DSG 01274 726330
Lloyds Pharmacy 12 Parkside Road BD5 8DL 01274 723891
Lloyds Pharmacy 1 Fair Road, Wibsey 806 WT 01274 601047
Tesco's Stores Halifax Road BD6 2DW 01274 337449
Moss Chemists 162 Clayton Road BD7 2R0 01274 574641
Uoyds Pharmacy 461 Great Horton Road 807 3DJ 01274 502761
Slater, R C & D R 79 Whedey Hill B08 8NQ 01274 774075
Moss Chemists 77-79 Girlington Road BM MN 01274 498532
Rowland, L & Co. Morrisons, 5 Lane Ends BD1O 8EW 01274 613354
P A Ball Ltd 516 Huddersfield Road BD12 8AD 01274 677508
Moss Chemists Thornton Med. Centre BD13 3LF 01274 832216
Cottingley Pharm. 7 The Parade 8016 1RP 01274 567958
Steeton

Healthcare

Chapel Road BD20 6NU 01535 656940
Sainsbury's Cavendish Street BD21 3RU 01535 607919
Fisher, Stewart J 23 Mill Hey BD22 8NG 01535 642248
Langhorne, J S 99 Commercial Bldgs BD22 7HN 01535 643162
Charles Fox 88 Main Street LS29 6HY 01943 873862

Ordering Oxygen

Name Location Tel Referral Criteria How to refer

Air Products for West Yorkshire

click here for a patient leaflet about them

 

 

 

4 contracted oxygen supply companies nationally:

Air Products (for West Yorkshire)

Allied Respiratory

BOC (Medical)

Linde Gas UK

For Yorkshire use Air Products on

Tel 0800 373580 

Fax 0800 214709

►All patients should have specialist resp assessment before O2 therapy start.  ►Exception to this rule being those recieiving it for short term palliation.

►Specialist should also be reviewing the patient.

►If using O2 ≥ 2h per day, CONSIDER concentrators (ie using 5 or more cylinders a month)

WYCSA may write to you about any patient on >5 cylinders per month about the change to a concentrator: you may wish to refer for hosp assessment to confirm their O2 needs

●fill in a single Home Oxygen Order Form (HOOF): click here for the form

●state whether long term, ambulatory or short burst oxygen

●State flow rate and usage hours needed

●The HOOF will remain extant until a new order is required to change the O2 therapy

●Get a consent form signed by patient to share info: click here for the form

●Send HOOF and consent directly to company

●This system should reduce the number of repeat prescriptions required of GPs

Notes
Urgent dispensing of drugs & Oxygen (out of hours/weekends): call LCD on 01484 71935 (ask to page the on call pharmacist)

Syringe Drivers: available from  a) Bradford Marie Curie Centre (all other times)   b) Airedale Hospital Pharmacy (dial switchboard out of hours)

24h Specialist Medical Advice is available from:
a) Bradford Marie Curie Centre: 01274 337 000
b) Sue Ryder Care Manorlands: 01535 642 308

Common Drugs in the Terminal Phase (and the vials they come in):

Diamorphine injection 10mg ampoules
Diamorphine injection 30mg ampoules
Dexamethasone injection 8mg/2ml
Haloperidol injection 5mg/ml
Hyoscine Butylbromide injection 20mg/ml
Ketorolac injection 30mg/ml
Midazolam injection 10mg/2ml
Phenobarbitone injection 200mg/ml
Cyclizine injection 50mg/ml
Oramorph dilute 10mg/5ml
Oramorph concentrated 20mg/1ml
Water for injections 10ml amp
Methotrimeprazine injection 25mg


 

Please send ammendments to Ramesh Mehay ramesh@theflumps.net