Prescribing Resources for End of Life (EOL) palliative care BNSSG Anticipating prescribing Table Guidance – Prescribing Table Specialist pharmacies – opening hours/ contact details Opiod Conversion Table Guidance on pain management with opiod conversion charts Key EOL Contacts / Advice Lines St Peters's Hospice 24 hour Advice Line: 0117 915 9430 Weston Hospice 24 hour […]
The next Clinical Education Day will be held on Tuesday 20th October 2026 from 09:00 to 16:00 at Engineer's House, The Promenade, Avon Clifton Down, Bristol, BS8 3NB. We are excited to hold this event after a successful inaugural meeting in 2025. The programme for the day can be found here: SevernSide Clinical Education […]
Practice Liasion Service In rare cases where a patient requires urgent follow-up by their own GP surgery, and you have concerns that they may not or cannot make contact themselves, CLEO includes a function that enables you to request this via our the Practice Liasion Service (PLS). You can do this by selecting the […]
The South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SWASFT) Specialist Practitioner in Urgent and Emergency Care (SPUEC) team provides 24/7 clinical advice and support to ambulance crews across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire (BNSSG). Contacting the SPUEC team SWASFT ambulance crews should contact the SPUEC team for clinical advice, support or a patient visit […]
This document outlines expected standards of documentation for clinicians working in SevernSide IUC and we hope is a useful guide to what we believe good and safe clinical documentation looks like. It has been created by the Clinical Guardian team, drawing on our experience of auditing cases and subsequent consensus discussions, as well as discussions […]
My Assigned Cases and Paramedics – Accessing your queue Select the Filters button at the top of the Cleo screen Select the My Assigned Cases and Paramedics filter on the right-hand side & click Apply. This will display any cases that have been assigned to yourself and any Paramedic cases on the system. Call back […]
Screening for delirium Use the Four As test (4-AT) Four questions covering Alertness, 4-AMT, Attention and Acute change or fluctuating course Assessing and treating delerium: often multiple factors, not always infection: 14. CGA in Primary Care Settings: Patients presenting with confusion and delirium | British Geriatrics Society Community Delirium chart for practical use of PINCHME tool GM-community-delirium-TIME-Bundle-Key-Document-3.docx […]
EBOLA Ebola disease is caused by a group of viruses, known as orthoebolaviruses. It affects both humans and animals and spreads through close contact with infected bodily fluids or contaminated materials. Clinicians should be aware of this outbreak and should consider EBOD when assessing unwell patients presenting where there is a history of travel […]
Hantavirus is the name given to a group of viruses carried by rodents and transmitted by their droppings and urine. Serious infections caused by hantaviruses Hantaviruses causes 2 serious infections in humans: haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) Transmission Humans are primarily infected by: Inhaling virus particles from contaminated dust Direct […]
National Guidance on current Meningococcal Outbreak in Kent These links provide updates on the current outbreak: NHS England Advice for Primary and Urgent Care This includes information on antibiotic prophylaxis for specific, defined groups of contacts. UKHSA updates on the outbreak This includes information on […]