{"id":120,"date":"2023-11-30T11:05:53","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T11:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/tissue-viability\/?page_id=120"},"modified":"2025-09-22T14:38:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T13:38:20","slug":"when-to-refer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/tissue-viability\/service\/when-to-refer\/","title":{"rendered":"When would you need referring?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may need the support of our service if you:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>have had a non-healing wound for more than six weeks<\/li>\n<li>are concerned that your wound is deteriorating rapidly despite treatment<\/li>\n<li>have had surgery or a sudden episode of bad health which means you are less mobile, at risk of pressure damage and may require pressure relieving equipment<\/li>\n<li>notice damage to skin caused by prolonged periods of sitting or lying down known as pressure damage, for example, sore\/painful, red or black areas of skin over vulnerable areas such as bony prominences<\/li>\n<li>have swelling to your legs that has been present for 3 months or more<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"ohft-box red\">\n<p>The Tissue Viability Service does not accept <strong>direct<\/strong> referrals from patients.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Please contact your primary health professional, such as your GP or nurse, to discuss if referral to our service might be appropriate.<\/p>\n<p>We accept referrals for any patient registered with an Oxfordshire GP.<\/p>\n<div class=\"nhsuk-action-link\"><a class=\"nhsuk-action-link__link\" href=\"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/tissue-viability\/contact\/referrals\/\" target=\"self\"><span class=\"nhsuk-action-link__text\">Referral information<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may need the support of our service if you: have had a non-healing wound for more than six weeks&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":8,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-120","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/tissue-viability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/tissue-viability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/tissue-viability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/tissue-viability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/tissue-viability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/tissue-viability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/tissue-viability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/120\/revisions\/130"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/tissue-viability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/tissue-viability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}