Skin cancer referrals

Who can refer

Patients are referred by their GP or another hospital.

How to refer

For different specialities within the service referral letters need to be emailed to the below.

To ensure clinicians have all material available at our team meetings, please ensure pathology is sent to our histopathology department when the referral letter is sent.

For suspected skin cancers

• Skin cancer screening clinic – two week wait pathway, all referals must be submitted using the NHS e-Referral service (formerly Choose and Book).

  Skin cancer screening clinic – routine
  Email: gst-tr.skincancerreferrals@nhs.net

• For routine skin cancer screening referral enquiries, contact:

  Mandy Thrower
  Tel: 020 7188 6423

Specialist clinics

• Including melanoma, cutaneous lymphoma and graft versus host disease.

  Email: gst-tr.skintumour
  dermatologyreferrals@nhs.net

• For specialist skin cancer clinic referral enquiries, contact:

  Rebecca Roles
  Tel: 020 7188 7188 (ext 51633)

• Blood results
  Email: gst-tr.cnsbloodsskintumour@nhs.net
• GP surgeries should email patient blood results to this confidential email account.

Urgent/two week wait referrals

All GP referrals must be submitted using the NHS e-Referral service (formerly Choose and Book).

Referrals sent to the nhs.net mailbox or by post from GPs will not be processed.

All non-GP referrals, e.g. dentists, can be emailed to gst-tr.2wwgstt@nhs.net

Emergency referrals

For emergency referrals, please call our main switchboard on 020 7188 7188 to contact our dermatology specialist registrar on bleep 2010.