Referring to the Rapid Personalised Care Service

1. Patient has a diagnosis entering the terminal stages.
2. Patient has a poor prognosis likely to be less than 12 weeks, they have an irreversible condition that no longer responds to medical treatment/ intervention, DNAR in place.
3. Patient is rapidly deteriorating and requires urgent care services.
4. Patient must be registered with a Herts Valleys or Bucks GP.

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Contact our Coordination Centre to find out about our wide variety of over 40 services – for your newly diagnosed patients to those needing end-of-life care. We can help you find the services that best fit your patient’s needs.

To refer a Hertfordshire patient for our Rapid Personalised Care Service, please:

1. download the RPCS referral form for Herts
2. download the RPCS consent form for Herts
3. complete both forms and submit to westherts.rpcs@nhs.net.

Referrals must be made by a healthcare professional involved in the patient’s care.

Please complete a CHC FastTrack and consent, stating ‘RPCS appropriate’ and send as normal to:

oxfordhealth.buckschcreferrals@oxfordhealth.nhs.uk

Referrals must be made by a healthcare professional involved in the patient’s care.

This is a twelve week care package. Should the patient stabilise or require continuing care beyond twelve weeks, an assessment will need to be made and provision of care transferred to another service.