Make a referral

 

To make a referral to Derriford Autism Service please let us know the following details and email or ring:

Name: ...............................................................................................................................

Address: ............................................................................................................................

NHS number (if known): ....................................................................................................

Hospital number (if known): ...............................................................................................

Formal diagnosis of Autism/Aspergers:  Y/N (Please circle) 

You know or think you have Autism/Asperger’s but haven’t been told officially:  Y/N (Please circle)

Derriford Autism Service, Derriford Hospital, Derriford Road, PL6 8DH

Email: plh-tr.derrifordautismservice@nhs.net  Click here to send an email directly. 

Telephone: 01752 432134

Why make a referral?

Derriford Autism Service requests that if anyone has contact or knowledge of patients – adults or children - who are Autistic (either with a formal diagnosis or those who know that they are autistic but do not wish to go down the diagnostic pathway), that they inform us of the names/NHS numbers etc. so that we can add the appropriate alerts to the hospital systems.  There are four systems that we currently place alerts on, and placing an alert yourself on any one of those will not enable us to ensure they are alerted on the other systems.

There is no formal register anywhere and although we know that there are potentially 10,000 Autistic people in our catchment area we have significantly less alerted.