Outpatient clinics

We run services that connect secondary hospital care with primary and community care. These include the following clinics:

• Hypertension clinic run by Dr Petra Hanson – providing specialist assessment and management, including the workup for secondary causes.  Further details of Hypertension Clinic Referrals page
• Non-Specific Symptoms (NSS) Clinic – support timely investigation of symptoms that do not meet a site-specific cancer referral pathway.  Clinic specific information can be found NSS Clinic Page
• Supported Discharge Clinic – which provides early follow-up after hospital discharge to address barriers to discharge to reduce avoidable hospital stays and support continuity of care. Note referrals to this are made by hospital teams only.

Inpatient service

• Five GIM teams comprising of consultants, specialist registrars and resident doctors to provide a seven-day service for medical patients across a large geographical footprint in UHCW.
• W33 Medicine is our 28-bed Integrated Care Hub.
• Provide medical care on surgical and non-medial wards for patients with acute medical issues.
• Service development focuses on reducing avoidable length of hospital stay, enabling safe timely discharge, accelerating diagnosis and strengthening preventative medicine

Contact the GIM department

For administrative enquiries, please contact our medical secretaries:

• Julie Green: 02476 965768, green@uhcw.nhs.uk
• Dena Gresham: 02476 965621, gresham@uhcw.nhs.uk

General Internal Medicine, Room AEH00004 (Office 4), Ground Floor, East Wing, WISDEM Centre, UHCW NHS Trust, Clifford Bridge Road, CV2 2DX

Our team

Dr Narasimha Murthy is the Clinical Lead to General Internal Medicine and Deputy Group Clinical Director of Medicine. He provides leadership for the GIM firm with responsibility for clinical governance, service development and future planning.