How to refer

Following an appointment, if your patient requires further action you have various options available.

Under the ‘NHS Choice Framework' patients have a right to be informed and offered a choice regarding their care options. This is a legal requirement when referred for their first outpatient appointment if they meet the following criteria:

• The GP needs to refer the patient for non-emergency treatment or tests.
• They are not a member of the armed forces, a prisoner or on temporary release from prison.
• They are not detained under the Mental Health Act 1983, in a secure hospital setting or in ‘other prescribed accommodation’. 

All urgent and routine ophthalmic referrals to Moorfields Hospital Eyecare Services 

Email referral:

• Moorfields at Brent Cross MEHDirect.BC@nhs.net  
• Moorfields at Ealing MEHDirect.ea@nhs.net
• Moorfields at Northwick Park MEHDirect.NWP@nhs.net 

For secure communication use nhs.net email or Egress

Community optometrists can now send referrals directly to a new Single Point of Access (SPoA), which routes them to the patient’s preferred hospital for triage and management.

Please see contact details for each area below:

 North Central London (NCL) 

• For NCL referrals please email: eyerefer.ncl@nhs.net 
• For general queries please email: eyeadmin.ncl@nhs.net 

 North East London (Inner NEL) 

• For Inner NEL referrals please email: nelondonicb.eyerefer@nhs.net
• For general queries please email: nelondonicb.eyeadmin@nhs.net 

GP referrals

All referrals will need to be made via the e-referral system. Moorfields Eye Hospital will not accept any GP referrals made outside of this system. An agreed process will be in place to ensure that there is no delay processing urgent and two week wait referrals.

In line with national Department of Health priorities, Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is committed to receiving primary care referrals via NHS e-Referral Service (ERS).

We ask all GPs referring to Moorfield Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust to use NHS e-Referral Service wherever possible.