TIA / minor stroke referrals

Clinics

Oxford University Hospitals provides daily TIA clinics (Monday to Sunday).

This is an outpatient service and does not replace the inpatient pathway for those with acute, disabling stroke who need hospital admission and acute stroke unit care.

Accessing the service

Oxfordshire GPs

Please use the form entitled Minor Stroke and TIA Referral Form - ClinOx to refer to the TIA Service via your own patient record system (e.g. EMIS) where it is embedded.

If you experience difficulties please contact BOB ICB.

Email: bobicb.gpproformas@nhs.net

Internal referrals

Please refer on PowerChart - for full details visit the OUH intranet:

TIA clinics (sharepoint.com) - access for OUH employees only

If you have any queries please contact the TIA Service.

Email: tiaservice@ouh.nhs.uk

Advice

Patients with a confirmed TIA will be offered follow-up with the TIA Specialist Nurse at around four weeks.

For advice regarding this / secondary prevention, please contact us:

Tel: 01865 234877

Email: tia.nurses@ouh.nhs.uk

Out of hours

Please call the on-call registrar for Stroke (6669) via Switchboard: 0300 304 7777

Please do not use e-Referral.