Clinical Assessment and Triage Service:

• All routine consultations have been converted to virtual appointments, either telephone or video.
• Patients triaged as Urgent are still invited to attend clinic for a face-to-face appointment.
• There may be delays in accessing injection service
• Clinicians urge you to utilise the STarT Back screening tool for patients with spinal pain. STarT Back is a simple tool to match patients to treatment packages appropriate based on prognosis and has been shown to significantly decrease disability from back pain. STarT Back tool

Camden Pain Service:

• 90% of staff have been redeployed.
• Expect delays in time from referral to treatment

MSK Podiatry:

• Face to face clinics remain unchanged at present but may move to virtual appointments over the next few weeks.
• There is a chance that staff will be redeployed to become vaccinators.

Connect Health Physiotherapy:

• Physiotherapy service is currently fully staffed with no clinicians redeployed.
• Face to face appointments are available to those patients that need them. Clinicians are contacting any face to face DNAs to offer virtual appointments in case the non-attendance is due to the current national lockdown or for reasons of shielding.
• Continue to offer virtual appointments and virtual gym sessions to those that require them.

InHealth Community Diagnostics:

• Currently operating as normal, but there are high numbers of staff absences, which has resulted in short notice cancellations.
• Services are under a lot of pressure and this may have an impact on the waiting times.