Please note ⚠︎: This specialty has now been moved over to the HNY Policy and Pathway Repository (PPR). Some of the links below may redirect you to the PPR. Please see the new Cardiology page

Telephone Advice for Urgent Admission Avoidance - only available via an N3 connection

Referral Management and Guidance

• Atrial Fibrillation Management
• Community Heart Failure Team (new referral process) - only available via an N3 connection
• DOAC Clinical Decision Making Tool July 22 v1
• Heart Failure 
• Hypertension *
• Home Blood Pressure Monitoring Diary *
• Lipid Disorders *
• Open Access Echocardiogram 
• Palpitations Pathway 
  • Referral Forms
• Rapid Access Chest Pain Pathway - Live from 7th May 2019
  • Referral Forms
• Syncope clinic - live from Sept 22
  • Eye witness form for an episode of syncope
• Postural Tachycardia Syndrome 

Other

• Anti-coagulation *
• Guidance on switching from warfarin to DOACs *
• Gateway guide for cardiology pathways for primary care admin teams - Nov 23 *
• HCV ICS list of Self-management patient resources *
• Sacubitril valsartan (Entresto®) - info and checklist for GPs  *
• TIA Clinic Referrals *
• Heart Failure MDT template *

Troponin in Primary Care 

Troponin requests on ICE in York, will not routinely be accepted because if a patient may have a raised troponin they should normally be referred that day to the hospital for further assessment and management of acute myocardial damage. Please see these slides for more information.

• Resperate© (Intercure Ltd) (not routinely commissioned)

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