Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals are both ranked in the top 10 hospitals in the UK and top 100 hospitals in the world for heart and lung services in Newsweek magazine's 'World's Best Specialized Hospitals'.
Important: Inpatient paediatric services have moved to Evelina London Children’s Hospital
Children’s heart and lung inpatient services moved to Evelina London Children’s Hospital in May 2026. Find out more about the changes we are making to children’s heart and lung services
GP referrals
All NHS GP referrals to consultant-led clinics must be submitted using the NHS e-Referral Service (e-RS). Referrals sent by email or post from NHS GPs will not be processed.
NHS e-Referral service
If you can’t find a service on e-RS, you can search for the condition or review the general service and the sub-specialty.
As a specialist provider, some of our services are not offered by direct booking. In this case, you will need to email your referral to:
- Royal Brompton Hospital: gstt.bhopnewrf@nhs.net
- Harefield Hospital: gstt.hhopnewrf@nhs.net
If there are no clinic slots available via e-RS, you can still refer your patient to us by selecting the ‘defer to provider’ option on e-RS.
If the patient wants to arrange the appointment outside of the surgery, please make sure you give them their booking reference number and e-RS password.
- Adult cardiology arrhythmia
- Adult general respiratory
- Adult respiratory – sleep apnoea service
- Coronary risk factors clinic
- Familial hypercholesterolaemia genetic screening service
- General cardiology (adult)
- Heart failure clinic
- Occupational and environmental respiratory disease
- Rapid access AF clinic
- Rapid access sleep apnoea service – for vocational drivers.
If there are no clinic slots available via e-RS, you can still refer your patient to us by selecting the ‘defer to provider’ option on e-RS.
If the patient wants to arrange the appointment outside of the surgery, please make sure you give them their booking reference number and e-RS password.
- Adult allergy clinic
- Adult food allergy clinic
- Adult general cardiology clinic
- Adult general respiratory medicine clinic
- Adult heart failure clinic
- Allergy clinic (adult)
- Atrial fibrillation rapid access evening clinic
- COPD clinic
- Hypertension
- Military cardiology
- Occupational and environmental respiratory disease
- Paediatric allergy clinic
- Paediatric cardiology
- Paediatric respiratory medicine
- Pulmonary hypertension
- Sleep disorders, sleep apnoea and CPAP clinic.
Consultant to consultant referral
Consultant to consultant referrals to our service can be sent via an NHS.net email address to one of these email addresses:
- Royal Brompton Hospital: gstt.bhopnewrf@nhs.net
- Harefield Hospital: gstt.hhopnewrf@nhs.net
The advantage of emailing a referral letter (with any diagnostic information) is that it will be received directly at a central point (Access Office), will be registered promptly and submitted for clinical review and appointed sooner.
In the event of system failures, we may accept a faxed new patient referral using the fax numbers below:
- Royal Brompton Hospital: 020 7351 8028
- Harefield Hospital: 01895 828 695
Please note that these options are only for outpatient clinics held at either Royal Brompton or Harefield Hospital. Referrals for all other services must be submitted in the normal way.
Tertiary referral form
As a tertiary centre, we are reliant on referring providers to forward 18-week data, particularly with regards to clock start.
The Department of Health has devised an inter-provider transfer administrative minimum dataset (IPTAMDS) by which referring providers can transmit 18-week information.
We ask that all tertiary referrals made to this Trust are accompanied by an IPTAMDS form. Please complete this form and send it to the Trust with the usual standard letter. IPTAMDS data can be emailed to the following secure email address - rbh-tr.interprovider@nhs.net
If you are unsure who to direct the referral to, please go to our consultants pages.
We will ensure that for all patients transferred out to another provider an IPTAMDS form is supplied to the recipient trust.
Private patient referrals
Guy’s and St Thomas’ Specialist Care delivers private heart, lung and sleep services for Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals, as well as private healthcare services for Evelina London Children’s Hospital and Guy’s and St Thomas’ hospitals.
Find out more about making a referral to Guy’s and St Thomas’ Specialist Care