How to refer a patient

Urgent referrals

In hours (Monday to Friday, 8am to 5pm): 

• Step 1: Telephone 0300 020 0496, select the option for your nearest unit
• Step 2: Email a completed treatment request form (Word 55KB) to your closest TAS unit (please note this link will take you to the NHSBT website for the public)  

Out of hours:

• Step 1: Telephone 0300 020 0496, select option 1
• Step 2: Email a completed treatment request form (Word 55KB) to TAS.Referrals@nhsbt.nhs.uk 

Non-urgent referrals

Email a treatment request form to your closest TAS unit (please note, this link will take you to the NHSBT website for the public) 

• For therapeutic apheresis (Word 55KB)
• For extracorporeal photopheresis for graft verses host disease (Word 59KB)
• For extracorporeal photopheresis cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (Word 42KB)
• For stem cell collection 

The team will be in touch with you the next working day. Telephone 0300 020 0496 if you don't hear back the next working day

Step 1 - telephone 0300 020 0496 to discuss the treatment you're requesting.

Step 2 - when our team confirm and agree the treatment plan for your patient, complete a one-off agreement form (Word 68KB).