The Bassetlaw Home Oxygen Service is a community service in Bassetlaw.

It supports adults who need an oxygen assessment or ongoing oxygen therapy.

The service runs from Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 4.30pm. It is closed on bank holidays and is a single person service.

To contact the service, please use the Single Point of Referral at Retford Hospital.

Telephone: 01777 274400

Accessing our service

Patients MUST be registered with a Bassetlaw GP to be referred to the service. Referral is by a clinician only following clinical assessment, and as per the referral criteria. Referral is via e-referral.

Information for health professionals

The Home Oxygen Service:

  • Is a clinical assessment service for patients who are clinically stable but hypoxic.
  • Is NOT an urgent service.
  • Does not prescribe *palliative oxygen. If a patient needs palliative oxygen, it is the clinician who assesses them who will have to prescribe the palliative oxygen.
  • If the patient is urgent or palliative, please do not refer to this service.
  • Provides training to clinicians as required.

*The term 'palliative oxygen therapy' (POT) refers to the use of oxygen to relieve the sensation of refractory persistent breathlessness in advanced disease or life-limiting illness irrespective of underlying pathology where all reversible causes have been or are being treated optimally.

 

The service provides:

  • Clinical assessment, including capillary blood gases, to see if a patient would benefit from supplementary oxygen.
  • Risk assessment to make sure that supplementary oxygen is prescribed and used safely.
  • Ongoing support and reviews for all patients who need supplementary oxygen.

Referrals should be made by a clinician who has determined that the patient has ALL medical conditions stable.

Oxygen saturations must be 92% or below on room air test for at least 10 minutes. 

For any clinical queries regarding a referral can be made via Single Point of Referral on 01777 274400.

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