HNY Policy and Pathway Repository - Humber

HUTHT DO NOT provide a 2WW sarcoma service for soft tissue or bone sarcomas

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Patients requiring a Sarcoma referral have two routes to choose from:

Leeds (soft tissue sarcomas)

The Regional Sarcoma Service at Leeds Teaching Hospital Trust (LTHT) look after sarcoma patients and those with soft tissue tumors from the Yorkshire region. The service consists of many health care professionals whose aim is to provide the best level of care and expertise to any patient referred to the service. They operate a multi-disciplinary clinic for assessment and management of all patients referred.

Patients where GPs suspect Sarcoma can be referred to HUTHT for direct access for imaging only. If appropriate these will go through HUTHT MDT and if positive referred to the Sarcoma MDT at LTHT for assessment and review. 

Patients diagnosed with a sarcoma cancer who require surgery will have their surgery undertaken at LTHT and their follow up care such as chemotherapy/radiotherapy will continue to be delivered at HUTHT to ensure care is delivered closer to home.

When a GP practice undertakes imaging and the findings are suspicious of sarcoma a referral directly to Leeds Sarcoma Service must be made by the GP.

Referrals to Leeds must include the relevant imaging.

If you have a patient with a suspected soft tissue sarcoma please refer using the referral form below:

Referral form on ARDENS

Please email the form to:  Leedsth-tr.FastTrackTeam@nhs.net 

Telephone: 01132065141

Birmingham (bone sarcomas)

Please note with the aim of supporting the pathways of patients referred in to the Cancer MDTs at UHB, and in line with the minimum information required for referrals (as outlined in the West Midlands Breach Allocation Policy v9), the following documents need to be sent via this link in order for any referral to be considered complete;

• Fully completed MDT proforma
• Histology slides and report
• Images and imaging report attached to the referral email
• Clinical letter
• Assurance patient is aware
• Tertiary alert

If you have a patient with a suspected bone sarcoma please refer using this referral form below:

Please email the form to: Uhb-tr.UHBsarcomatertiaryreferrals@nhs.net

Only referrals sent via this method will be actioned.