Welcome to our page for GPs and clinicians.
If you would like any other information included on this GP-specific page or our website, please email communications
Our fracture clinics are run daily for patients who have been referred through the A&E pathway. The team now also have a dedicated direct referral line so that GPs can directly refer patients who have received initial treatment anywhere else but need follow-up treatment or checks.
This prevents the patients from having to visit A&E again simply to get a referral to the service, therefore greatly improving the access pathway for those patients.
Congratulations on your pregnancy! Whether this is your first time, or you’ve been on a maternity journey before, the first step is to complete a self-referral to George Eliot maternity services (link). It is quick and easy and should only take around ten minutes to complete.
You can also use this to refer a pregnancy on behalf of a woman.
We have streamlined the forms to refer to pulmonary rehab and respiratory outpatient physiotherapy services and introduced a new email address: geh-tr.
Across Coventry and Warwickshire, there are three Community Diagnostic centres offering Respiratory and Sleep Physiological measurements and clinics.
- North Warwickshire CDC – George Eliot Hospital site
- Rugby CDC – Rugby St Cross site
- South Warwickshire CDC- Stratford Upon Avon site
Services are delivered by Healthcare Scientists and HCPC-registered Clinical Scientists, ensuring high quality, evidence-based diagnostic investigation and patient-centred care.
All three sites individually provide a range of diagnostic testing, clinical interpretation and specialist advice to primary care across Coventry and Warwickshire with aim to provide early and accurate diagnosis and integrated care for patients with respiratory disease. Through a range of diagnostics, including spirometry, lung function testing, FeNO measurement, sleep pathways, and collaborative pathways such as the Breathlessness pathway and Children and Young People (CYP) asthma pathway, we aim to diagnose and manage conditions such as, but not limited to, asthma, COPD, and obstructive sleep apnoea.
These services promote equitable access, patient education, and digital innovation, supporting prevention, self-management and more efficient patient-centred care across Coventry and Warwickshire
Services Available for referral:
Respiratory Diagnostics
The Respiratory Diagnostics Service provides a comprehensive, timely, and accurate assessment of lung function to support the diagnosis and ongoing management of respiratory conditions, including asthma, COPD, and restrictive lung diseases including interstitial lung disease.
The purpose of the service is to provide primary care clinicians with objective diagnostic data, enabling early intervention, tailored management plans, and reduction of unnecessary secondary care referrals.
Key components of the service include:
- Spirometry and bronchodilator response testing
- Fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO) testing
- Full pulmonary function testing – including spirometry, static lung volumes and gas transfer measurements
- Home oxygen assessment and therapy review
Patients referred to the service will undergo appropriate diagnostic testing and expert interpretation. Results are communicated to the referring GP or clinician, along with evidence-based recommendations for ongoing care. This approach supports early and accurate diagnosis, optimises patient outcomes, and promotes efficient use of respiratory services across Coventry and Warwickshire.
Sleep Pathway
The sleep physiology services assess patients with suspected obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA). The service aims to identify and treat OSA, a condition that can significantly impact sleep quality, cardiovascular health and overall wellbeing. Diagnostic testing is delivered through home sleep studies, followed by CPAP therapy initiation and ongoing review and support to optimise adherence and clinical outcomes.
Breathlessness pathway
A clinical scientist led pathway, providing a structured, multidisciplinary approach for patients presenting with unexplained breathlessness. The purpose of this pathway is to provide a symptom-based pathway with the aim to improve and streamline the respiratory diagnostics service, delivered by a team of clinical scientists with specialist clinical training in the speciality of respiratory medicine.
The service will provide a one-stop clinic approach combining multiple diagnostics, clinical consultation, and therapy plans to patients with either an unclear diagnosis or disproportionate symptomology.
The use of one stop services promote efficiency, reduces hospital visits, reduces waiting times and improves resilience within the medical team and improves clinic availability within respiratory medicine for access to specialist service such as bronchiectasis clinics, severe asthma and interstitial lung disease patients.
Patients will undergo a full clinical history review, observations, appropriate diagnostics and depending on the outcome; patients would be either discharged back to the GP with advice, managed by the physiology team, referred for a consultant review, or referred to other specialist services deemed appropriate.
Children and Young People (CYP) Asthma Pathway
The CYP Asthma pathway aims to deliver a multidisciplinary asthma diagnostic service for children and young people aged 5-16 years. The pathway is designed to support GP’s and other community services in delivering timely and accurate asthma diagnosis in line with NICE/BTS/SIGN guidelines.
The pathway is a specialist-led multidisciplinary service, providing a one-stop clinic approach that includes:
- Specialist-led assessment of children with suspected asthma
- Access to objective diagnostic testing (spirometry, FeNO, bronchodilator reversibility, cardio-pulmonary exercise testing)
- Review and input from a multidisciplinary team including, Clinical Scientists, Paediatricians, and Specialist Respiratory Nurses
- Personalised asthma management plans to support ongoing care in primary settings
This service aims to reduce delays in diagnosis, avoid unnecessary treatment provision, and provide families and clinicians with appropriate treatment plans.
Services provided at each site and contact details
North Warwickshire CDC
- Spirometry
- Bronchodilator response
- FeNO
- Full pulmonary function testing
- Diagnostic sleep studies
- Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP therapy)
- Breathlessness Pathway
- CYP asthma pathway
- Oxygen assessment/ blood gases
North Warwickshire contact details:
Joanna Purvis, Physiological Sciences Service Manager
Clinical queries: respiratory.
How to refer:
Referrals can be made via the electronic referral system (e-RS): Community Diagnostic Centre: Respiratory Physiology- Community Diagnostic Centre George Eliot Hospital
For further information or to speak to a member of the team, please contact the Physiological Sciences Service on 02476865128.
Rugby CDC
- Spirometry
- Bronchodilator response
- FeNO
- Full pulmonary function testing
- Diagnostic sleep studies
- Breathlessness Pathway
- CYP asthma pathway
Rugby CDC Contact Details:
Vicky Moore
Consultant Clinical Scientist and Rugby CDC lead
Clinical queries: respiratorycdc
How to refer:
Referrals can be made via the electronic referral system (e-RS): Respiratory Community Diagnostic Centre: Community Rugby St Cross
For further information or to speak to a member of the team, please contact the Respiratory and Sleep Sciences Service on 02476 966734.
South Warwickshire CDC
- Spirometry
- Bronchodilator response
- FeNO
- Full pulmonary function testing
- Diagnostic sleep studies
South Warwickshire Community Diagnostic Centre (Stratford Upon Avon Site)
Referrals can be made via the electronic referral system (e-RS): Community Diagnostic Centre.
For further information or to speak to a member of the team, please contact:
Clinical queries: Respiratoryfunction
Referral queries: respiratoryamusecretaries