Searchable abstracts of presentations at key conferences in endocrinology

ea0015p38 | Clinical practice/governance and case reports | SFEBES2008

An endocrine e-mail GP advisory service: a potential way to reduce referrals?

Walker JN , Rourke D , Allen K , Karavitaki N , Wass JAH

Since July 2005 our centre has offered an e-mail enquiry service to General Practitioners. This service was established for two reasons, firstly to create a more efficient way of dealing with clinical enquiries from primary care and secondly with a long term objective to reduce GP referral rates. The service is manned by Endocrine/Diabetes Specialist Registrars and is part of their training commitment. Compared to telephone calls it gives the registrar more chance to think thr...