REQUESTING CLINICAL ADVICE

The microbiology clinical team comprises 3 Consultants and 1 Speciality Doctor who are based at Peterborough City Hospital and Hinchingbrooke Hospital. They provide clinical cover for Peterborough City Hospital, Stamford Hospital, Hinchingbrooke Hospital and GP/Community Services on a rotational basis.

For Urgent Clinical Advice:

Between 09:00 – 17:00 Monday to Friday, contacting the duty clinical microbiologist can be done as follows:

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Call switchboard and ask for the duty clinical microbiologist/consultant. They will either bleep the consultant or try their extension. The numbers are:

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PCH - 01733 678000 (or 0 if internal)

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Hinchingbrooke - 01480 416416 (or 6416 if internal)

Please note:            If you are calling from outside the Trust and the microbiologist is bleeped, please remain on the line until they answer. The bleep does not show any external number and if you ring off, the consultant will not know who to ring back.

For evenings, nights, weekends, and Bank Holidays, please call PCH switchboard 01733 678000 (or 0 if internal) and ask for the On-call Microbiology Consultant.

For Non-urgent Clinical advice:

Request for non-urgent clinical Advice and Guidance should be submitted using the NHS e-referral service.

The appropriate section can be found under:

Endocrinology and Metabolic Medicine, Chemical Pathology, Microbiology A&G ONLY service

Alternatively, the consultants can be email. There is a generic email address which all the microbiology clinical team have access to. The address for this is:

nwangliaft.microconsultants@nhs.net

Each consultant has their own email address as well which can be used to contact them. The addresses for these are:

Dr Dennis Mlangeni – Lead Consultant            dennis.mlangeni@nhs.net

Dr Vrinda Shet – Consultant                            v.shet@nhs.net

Dr Olubukola Oluyombo – Consultant              Olubukola.oluyombo1@nhs.net

Dr Jeevani Kumarage – Specialist Doctor        jeevanikumarage@nhs.net