Nuffield Health Hereford Hospital

Nuffield Health
Hereford Hospital
Newsflash
GP & Practice Colleagues
Welcome
Issue 23 - 2014
Introducing Dr Victoria Galbraith
Dr Victoria Galbraith is a
Chartered Psychologist,
Associate Fellow of the British
Psychological Society (BPS)
and a Fellow of the Higher
Education Academy. She is an
HCPC registered Counselling
Psychologist, BPS-registered
Coaching Psychologist and a
HypnoBirthing Practitioner.
Welcome to our last newsflash of 2014.
I am pleased to announce our new
NHS Choose & Book Adult Spinal Clinic.
This service will be led by our Spinal
Consultant, Mr Ian Pitman and I believe
it will further enhance our Choose &
Book services which are available for GP
colleagues, patients and our local CCG.
We have recently introduced a dedicated
GP Enquiry & Appointments phone
number, 01432 262509. This number
provides direct access to our team of
enquiry handlers who can assist you and
make appointments when required.
May I take this opportunity to thank you
for your continued support.
Mike Haffenden
Hospital Director
Nuffield Health Hereford Hospital
To refer patients
Send your named/unnamed referral direct
to us and we will contact your patient.
Tel:
01432 262 502
Fax:
01432 344 061
Email:he.clinicbookings
@nuffieldhealth.com
Dedicated GP Referral and Surgery enquiries
Tel: 01432 262509
The directory of Consultants can be
found online at nuffieldhealth.com
/healthcare-professionals
Dr Galbraith’s work includes
the provision of psychological
therapy for clinical conditions
including (but not restricted
to) depression, anxiety, post
traumatic stress as well as the
effects of childhood sexual
abuse, relationship breakdown, domestic violence and self-esteem issues.
However she also works with individuals without any specific difficulty who
are interested in their own personal development and growth. She adopts
a humanistic foundation to her work and aims to provide an evidencebased, tailored treatment package; and is registered with the major health
insurance providers. Psychotherapeutic approaches utilised are cognitive
behavioural therapy (CBT), eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing
(EMDR), psychodynamic therapy, humanistic therapy and mindfulness-based
approaches. Dr Galbraith also supports parents-to-be with HypnoBirthing
techniques in the lead up to the birth of their child with the aim of facilitating
a calm and confident birth.
Dr Galbraith has over ten years experience of training the next generation of
counselling psychologists and until opting for a part-time position assumed
the role of Course Director at the University of Wolverhampton for their
Professional Doctorate in Counselling Psychology. Dr Galbraith sits on the
BPS Division of Counselling Psychology’s Training Committee which involves
convening University accreditation visits on behalf of the Society.
She was invited to deliver the Keynote Public Lecture at the BPS Division
of Counselling Psychology’s annual conference in 2013 (“The Pride and
Identity of the Red Dragon (Y Ddraig Goch): Suit of Armour or Double-Edged
Sword?”) and is in the process of co-editing the 4th edition of the Handbook
of Counselling Psychology, due for publication by Sage in 2016.
In her spare time, Victoria speaks a little Welsh, enjoys foreign travel and
spending time with her family and friends.
Dr Galbraith’s clinics are weekly on Tuesday mornings. To book an
appointment please contact our Customer Service Team on 01432 262502.
Referring to Nuffield
Health Hospitals
To refer to a Nuffield Health Hospital
please use the contact details on the
front of this Newsflash or use our
Referrers’ Directory
Patients with Medical Insurance: We
have agreements with all major insurers.
Please have your patient’s insurance
scheme and policy details to hand when
booking. A GP letter is also required.
Patients Self-paying: We provide a full
range of services to patients who are
paying for their own treatment.
NHS Patients: Via Choose and Book
Some procedures are available to patients
through Patient Choice. You and your
patient can select the most convenient
time, date and place of treatment
for NHS services listed on the NHS
Choose and Book web portal. Simply
access the Choose and Book website
(chooseandbook.nhs.uk/) and search for
consultants/procedures available at your
local Nuffield Health Hospital.
Please note: not all Nuffield Health
Hospitals offer Choose and Book
treatment. For assistance or to find out
more about the Patient Choice at your
local hospital, please contact the Nuffield
Health Choose and Book Contact Centre:
Tel: 08000 155 020
Fax: 08452 803 251
Email:chooseandbook@nuffieldhealth.com
Adult Spinal Service now available on Choose and Book
Mr Ian Pitman is a whole time Consultant
Orthopaedic Spinal Surgeon who is based at
the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Birmingham
where he works as part of a tertiary
referral centre for the West Midlands. He
qualified from his specialist training in
2006, undertaking Spinal Fellowships at
the University Hospital, North Staffordshire
and Bristol with subsequent Fellowship
visitations to Miami and Orlando Florida
before taking up his substantive post at the
Royal Orthopaedic Hospital.
Having worked at Nuffield Health Hereford Hospital for over 6 years seeing
adult spinal patients Mr Pitman is delighted to share with you a new Adult Spinal
Service which is now available at Nuffield Health Hereford on the Choose and
Book scheme. The clinic is currently held once a month with the potential to
increase the frequency depending on demand. This service is being set up to
treat routine adult spinal patients, patients requiring urgent assessment for
conditions such as cauda equina and/or Neurological deficit should be referred
through the normal NHS pathways that currently exits.
As part of the clinic Mr Pitman is able to offer a comprehensive and full opinion
for all adult patients with sciatica, back pain and spinal stenosis. He offers a full
injection service for these conditions including image guided transforaminal
nerve root blocks/epidural and facet joint injections. A large number of patients
can be managed by conservative means with a spinal injection to help reduce
pain levels and to be able to help the patient engage with physiotherapy/manual
techniques. It can also help to break pain cycles. For patients who have not
settled on conservative means he is able to offer surgical management for disc
herniations by way of microscopic posterior decompression and excision of disc
fragments and in addition he is able to offer decompressions for patients with
lumbar spinal stenosis where they do not require more complex intervention
requiring stabilisation type procedures.
MRI and radiological procedures need to be identified within the referral letter
so they can be obtained electronically ahead of the appointment if it were not
performed at Nuffield Health Hereford Hospital.
Private appointments are also available at Nuffield Health Hereford Hospital
as before for the whole range of adult spinal conditions. Please contact the
dedicated GP number 01432 262509 at Nuffield Health Hereford Hospital
directly to arrange these.
The Nuffield Health
Promise
GP Learning Programme
Our free GP Learning Programme is a great way
to fulfil your CPD requirements.
For information on events taking place at
Nuffield Health Hereford Hospital please
visit our website, telephone 01432 262509
or email eleanor.bulmer@nuffieldhealth.com
The Nuffield Health Promise is our pledge to
our self paying patients, where we ensure
that they receive a clear and transparent
price for treatment, the very best in clinical
care, and with no time limits on after care**.
Contact us:
01432 355 131
Facts at a glance
Information on our latest Infection Control or Patient Satisfaction statistics
can be found on our website at nuffieldhealth.com
he.clinicbookings@nuffieldhealth.com
*Not including private patient units at NHS hospitals. Local area defined as within 15 miles of the Nuffield Health hospital. We will match against written quotes only. Promise is valid for patients paying for themselves. **Where possible, we
promise to assist you to receive any follow up advice, treatment or care that is clinically required from your Consultant for as long as you may require it. If a prosthesis is used as part of your treatment this is guaranteed for the manufacturer’s
official lifetime of that prosthesis. “Clinically required” indicates where further intervention and/or monitoring of a patient’s condition is deemed necessary as a direct result of surgical intervention.