{"id":3963,"date":"2022-05-03T11:47:20","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T10:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/guidelines\/generalrespiratoryadvice\/"},"modified":"2023-09-13T15:38:27","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T14:38:27","slug":"generalrespiratoryadvice","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/guidelines\/respiratory\/generalrespiratoryadvice\/","title":{"rendered":"General Respiratory Advice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-alert-red-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>This page was last reviewed 04-08-19<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<title>General Respiratory Advice<\/title>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Services<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>There is the facility to refer for &#8216;ADVICE ONLY&#8217; for respiratory issues<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>There are dedicated &#8216;advice\/virtual&#8217; clinics at RIE, St John&#8217;s and WGH<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>At the RIE there is an email inbox that is looked at every day for quick response to respiratory queries<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs\" data-active-tab=\"0\"><ul class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__nav-links\"><\/ul>\n<div class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__nav-link\"><span class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__title-wrapper\"><a href=\"#\"><span class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__title\">Referral Guidelines<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__tab-content-wrapper\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__tab-content\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Who to refer:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Patients where the GP thinks the patient does not necessarily need to be seen in person, but would like advice on management or further investigations<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Who not to refer:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Patients that require to be seen in person in respiratory clinic<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to refer:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Use SCI and mark &#8216;advice only&#8217; for RIE, St John&#8217;s or WGH<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Email&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:RIE.Respiratoryoncall@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">RIE.Respiratoryoncall@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk<\/a>&nbsp;for quick responses to respiratory queries<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__nav-link\"><span class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__title-wrapper\"><a href=\"#\"><span class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__title\">Resources and Links<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__tab-content-wrapper\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__tab-content\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/files\/sites\/2\/Respiratory-Lothian-COPD-Guidance-April-2018-v0-4-Combined-2-1.pdf\" data-type=\"attachment\" data-id=\"10030\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lothian COPD Guidance April 2018 v0 4 Combined<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nice.org.uk\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nice.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sign.ac.uk\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.sign.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This page was last reviewed 04-08-19 General Respiratory Advice Services<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":4381,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[596],"class_list":["post-3963","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-generalrespiratoryadvice"],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"NHS Lothian","author_link":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/author\/nhs-lothian\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":" <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/category\/respiratory\/generalrespiratoryadvice\/\" rel=\"tag\">General Respiratory Advice<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"This page was last reviewed 04-08-19 General Respiratory Advice Services","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3963"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14340,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3963\/revisions\/14340"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}