{"id":502,"date":"2026-07-21T19:04:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T18:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/f81089\/?page_id=502"},"modified":"2026-07-21T19:04:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T18:04:43","slug":"hospital-letters","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/f81089\/hospital-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Hospital Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following your hospital appointment, it can take up to two weeks for correspondence to be received by the practice, reviewed by a clinician, and any necessary actions completed.<\/p>\n<p>To help improve efficiency and reduce processing times, we use Anima document processing technology to manage incoming hospital correspondence.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Hospital Prescriptions<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>As hospital letters may take up to two weeks to reach the practice and be reviewed, the hospital remains responsible for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Providing sufficient medication until the information has been processed by your GP practice.<\/li>\n<li>Arranging any urgent investigations, tests, or follow-up care.<\/li>\n<li>Prescribing medicines that require specialist or hospital monitoring, unless a formal shared-care agreement is in place.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please note that the GP practice cannot take responsibility for specialist medications or hospital-initiated treatment unless this has been specifically agreed with the hospital consultant.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Referrals to Other Specialties<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>If the hospital has advised that your GP needs to make a referral to another specialist service, please contact the surgery within\u00a0<strong>three weeks<\/strong>\u00a0of your hospital appointment to ensure the recommendation has been received and reviewed.<\/p>\n<p>This allows us to confirm that any required referral has been actioned and helps prevent delays in your ongoing care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following your hospital appointment, it can take up to two weeks for correspondence to be received by the practice, reviewed by a clinician, and any&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-502","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/f81089\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/f81089\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/f81089\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/f81089\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/f81089\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/f81089\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/f81089\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}