Referrals

The easiest way of organising a consultation with one of our surgeons is by submitting your self-referral online - just click on the button below to start. You will have an online questionnaire to fill in and will need to submit photographs of your hands.

Download here:

instructions on taking photographs of your hands

a copy of the questionnaire you will find online

After reviewing your photographs and questionnaire we will contact you to organise a consultation - in most cases this will be a telephone consultation, but you will be asked if you prefer a face to face consultation in the referral form.

If you have any difficulty submitting your photographs or filling in the online questionnaire, please contact us using our contact form. We will get back to you as soon as possible.

If you prefer to directly come to see one of our surgeons face to face at Spire Shawfair Park Hospital and do not wish to use our referral form, please use our contact form and our secretary will assist you to organise your face to face consultation.

Please see our “consultation and fees” page for information on how remote or face to face consultations and surgery are organised, and on fees.

FAQs

  • Our online referral system is built to be secure and GDPR-compliant.

    You can print and fill by hand the questionnaires, and email them to us along with the photographs of your hands if you find it easier.

    We cannot guarantee that we will receive all the information - if you email us and do not hear back from us within 2 weeks please enquire using our CONTACT US form.

    We also cannot guarantee that information sent to us by email, including personal medical information, will not be lost or accessed illegally by third parties out of our control.

  • Please let us know of the issue you are having using our CONTACT US form or emailing us.

The small print

Privacy Statement

The surgeons of Edinburgh Dupuytren’s Group collect and store your personal, medical and billing data solely for the purpose of your care and associate administrative practices. Your data with EDG surgeons may be shared with other EDGroup members and staff or with other healthcare organisations including Spire Hospitals and Insurers when relevant solely for the purpose of your care and associated administrative business.

Please download our full privacy statement that covers the requirements set out in the General Data Protection Regulation commencing 25th May 2018.

data and privacy statement download

Please notice that while transmission of personal and medical information via our referral form is secure and GDPR compliant, we cannot guarantee that information exchanged via email is safely stored, not deleted, and not accessed by third parties without our permission or knowledge.

communication (email and contact form) disclaimer download

If you choose to communicate with us via email, we will assume that you authorise us to reply, including personal or medical information where necessary, but we will not be responsible if emails or documents transmitted via email are not safely stored, deleted, or accessed by third parties without our permission or knowledge.