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Welcome to the SVUH GP Resource Hub

At St. Vincent’s University Hospital, we value the integral role General Practitioners play in providing patient-centred care. This dedicated section of our website is designed to support you in your ongoing work, offering easy access to essential information, guidelines and resources tailored to your needs.

We hope you find this hub helpful and informative. Our goal is to strengthen collaboration between primary and acute care, ensuring the best possible outcomes for all our patients.

Your feedback is important to us. If you have suggestions or require additional information on the GP pages, please don’t hesitate to get in touch by emailing communications@svhg.ie

St. Vincent’s University Hospital Annual GP Study Day – Saturday, 2nd March 2024

We were delighted to have invited General Practitioners to the GP Study Day 2024 at SVUH, a dynamic event designed to enrich the knowledge and skills of primary care practitioners. This engaging day promised a lineup of speakers who shared their expertise on a range of important medical topics.

The event took place on the 2nd of March from 08:20am to 12:30pm at the Nurse Education Centre (NEC), SVUH. We extend a big thank you to all the GPs who attended and contributed to making the day a success. Your participation was greatly appreciated.

Full Study Day Programme 2024 (PDF).

GP Referrals

Please note that all GP referrals can now go through Healthlink.

St. Vincent’s University Hospital continues to develop and maintain a strong working relationship with GPs to ensure we can provide all our patients with the most timely, efficient, relevant and best possible care.

SVUH have set up secure email addresses for GP use via Healthmail in the following areas:

  1. Lab Results: LabResultEnquiry@svhg.ie
  2. Radiology Results: GPradiologyresults@svhg.ie
  3. Emergency Department: ed@svhg.ie
  4. Patient Outpatient Letters: gpletterenquiry@svhg.ie

Usage guidelines

  • The Labs and Radiology emails are for requesting non-urgent results or copies of patient scans on disc only; not for referrals. The GPs has to be the patients registered GP / working in the same practice to be allowed receive the results.
  • The ED email is for sending additional patient notes for a patient that is already enroute to SVUH ED from the GP practice.
  • The Outpatient Letters email is for requesting correspondence from outpatient clinics only.

Additional secure email addresses for other wards and departments will be added as required.

GP Liaison Nurse

Contact details:

Contact Name: Daphnie Layugan

Contact number: 01 221 4819 | 087 398 0171

Opening Hours:  Mon – Wed 07.30 – 17.30hrs, Thurs 07.30 – 17.00hrs

Discharge queries

If you have a query about a discharge summary: please email dischargecoordinator@svuh.ie

Frailty Service/EDITH (ED in the Home)

Service Overview

EDITH serves patients in the hospital’s catchment area, seven days a week (8am – 6pm) who have been referred to the service by GP, Emergency Services or nursing home. The at-home service includes a full medical and targeted functional assessment by a doctor and occupational therapist including mobile ECGs and bloods.

For further details please visit our dedicated EDITH (Emergency Department in the Home) page in the GP Referrals section.

Integrated Care Programme for Older Persons (ICPOP)

The Integrated Care Programme for Older Persons (ICPOP), led by Sláintecare under the Enhanced Community Care (ECC) Programme, focuses on shifting care for older adults from acute hospitals to local community settings, providing services as close to home as possible.

Key features of ICPOP

  • Aims to bridge the gap between acute and community services.
  • Reduces the risk of hospital admissions and re-admissions.
  • Provides specialised, multidisciplinary team support.

Multidisciplinary team

The ICPOP team includes:

  • Consultant Geriatrician
  • Senior Physiotherapist and Occupational Therapist
  • Dietician
  • Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP)
  • Clinical Nurse Specialists
  • Speech and Language Therapist

Service coverage

  • Operates in Community Healthcare East (Wicklow, Dublin South, and Dublin South East).
  • Patients are seen at home or in Integrated Care Hubs in:
    • Bray
    • Wicklow Town
    • Clonskeagh Hospital Campus

Referral pathways

Referrals can be made by:

  • GPs
  • Public Health Nurses
  • Hospital Discharge Pathways (e.g., Frailty Teams in Emergency Departments).

Referral criteria

To qualify for ICPOP services, patients must:

  • Be 65 years or older.
  • Require short-term multidisciplinary intervention.
  • Be experiencing an acute functional decline.
  • Live in East Wicklow (CHN 7 & CHN 8).

Learn more

GP Referrals

Referrals can be sent to the relevant department either electronically via the Healthlink system, by post, fax or by hand.

GP Liaison Committee

The aim of the GP Liaison Committee is to facilitate a platform for discussion between St. Vincent’s University Hospital and GPs. Find out more about our work and see the full list of committee members.

Pathology User Handbook

Download a copy of our Pathology User Handbook which provides an overview of our services, contact details for key laboratory personnel and opening times for individual departments.

For GPs