what is a referral service

choose and book is a system that has beendesigned to help patients who need to be reffered to hospital for seeing aspecialist to be able to choose when and where they see that specialist at a time that isconvenient for them it makes a significant difference to thespeed with which we can get processt of gp consultation to hospital bookingmande it becomes much faster individuals along that process forexample gp's may have to spend slightly longer doing it but from the patient's perspective

and from the hospitals perspective enormousamounts of time are saved we know that if we can book people an appointment at the timeof their choosing that many more people will attend theirappointments which is a benefit both to the patient and to the nhs