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North West Aortic Dissection Toolkit

Introducing the North West Aortic Dissection Toolkit: a comprehensive resource designed to enhance the diagnosis, treatment, and management of aortic dissection. This toolkit provides healthcare professionals with essential guidelines, best practices, and support tools to improve patient outcomes and ensure the highest standard of care.

Referring a Patient

Streamline your patient referral process in the North West region with this resource.

Patients & Family Resources

Essential support and guidance for patients and their families navigating procedures related to aortic health

For clinicians

Refer a patient online

See which centre is taking patients now, send the referral with imaging, and follow it with the receiving team until the patient reaches theatre. Liverpool, Manchester and Blackpool get the referral straight away.

Live theatre availability across the network, in rota order
Urgent alert to the on-call aortic team the moment you send
One message thread for A&E, surgeons, theatres and transfer

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For authorised clinical staff. In an emergency, phone the receiving centre's switchboard: the numbers are on Referring a Patient.