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Primary and Secondary Care: Excellence in Partnership Working

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Overview

We are a busy department seeing both booked and emergency eye patients.

Emergency Patients

Please refer to the documentation below before making a referral. This should help you to determine whether an emergency referral is appropriate. Please consider referring patients to CUES if it is not a true emergency.

Community Urgent Eyecare Service (CUES)

Primary Care Resources

• Bristol Eye Hospital Primary Care Guidance
• Royal College of Ophthalmologists - Standards & Guidance
• Common eye condition management - Moorfields Eye Hospital
• Community Urgent Eyecare Service (CUES)

Weekdays 9am to 4.30pm

Refer a patient to our casualty clinic by filling out the emergency referral form. You must fill in all the indicated fields to submit the referral.

• Any referrals received with incomplete fields will be rejected and returned to the referrer.
• All referrals must be completed by CLINICIANS ONLY. Any self-referrals made by patients will be rejected.
• We aim to respond to your query the same day.

Out of Hours

• Monday to Thursday, 5pm to 8pm
  Phone RUH switchboard on 01225 428331 and ask for the Ophthalmology Registrar On‑Call.
• 5pm Friday to 4pm Sunday
  Phone RUH switchboard on 01225 428331 and ask for the Ophthalmology Registrar On‑Call.
• Weekdays 8pm to 9am and 4pm Sunday to 9am Monday
  Refer to Bristol Eye Hospital. This can be done by contacting switchboard and contacting the Ophthalmology Registrar On‑Call.

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