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Document No 10

2003          Page last updated: 30 July, 2005

University Hospital Birmingham NHS Trust
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TH
Tel: 0121 472 1311

Chaplaincy Department
0121 472 1311 ext 3437/3104
Email: Francis.Buxton@uhb.nhs.uk

How to call a Chaplain

Advice for ward, Critical Care and A&E staff

If you need a Chaplain for a Roman Catholic patient …
Ask Switchboard to air-page the Roman Catholic chaplain.
This is a 24 hour service.

If you need a Chaplain for a Church of England or Free Church patient …
Ask Switchboard to air-page or bleep one of the chaplains on site,
Or (overnight and at weekends) ask Switchboard to air-page the chaplain named for that week on the Chaplaincy On-Call Rota. This is a 24 hour service.

If you need a Chaplain for a Muslim patient …
Call direct one of the Muslim chaplains:
Mawlana AKM Kamruzzaman (07956 683673), or
Ms. Rehanah Sadiq (07715 139834)
NOTE: This is not a 24 hour service: if you are not successful in contacting either Muslim chaplain, ask Switchboard to air-page the chaplain on the Rota.

If you need a Chaplain for a Sikh patient …
Try one of the following numbers (in this order):
Mr Avtar Singh Chandan (07956 511907)
Mr Mandla (07980 448583)
Mr Johan (07967 156589)
NOTE: This is not a 24 hour service. The above do not work within the Trust.
If you are not successful in contacting any of these, ask Switchboard to air-page the chaplain on the Rota.

If you need a Chaplain for a Hindu patient …
Phone either:
Upendra Burohit (523 8730), or
Dhuram Dutt (554 3616), or
(for advice only) Mr Mamubhai C. Desai (360 2245).
NOTE: This is not a 24 hour service. None of the above work within the Trust. If you are not successful in contacting any of these, ask
Switchboard to air-page the chaplain on the Rota.

If you need a Chaplain for a Buddhist patient …
Phone Phramaha Laow Panyasiri (515 1518).
NOTE: This is not a 24 hour service. Phramaha Laow Panyasiri is an
Honorary chaplain for the Trust. If you are unsuccessful in contacting him, ask Switchboard to air-page the chaplain on the Rota.

If you need a Jewish contact (not a chaplain) for a patient …
Phone the honorary Jewish coordinator Mr Bernard Gingold (07976
227209 or 643 0884).
NOTE: This is not a 24 hour service. If unsuccessful in contacting
Mr Gingold, please ask Switchboard to air-page the chaplain on the Rota

N.B.

•  If a patient is dying or has recently died, ALWAYS ask the family if they would like to see someone from the patient's own denomination or faith. To ask does not offend; not to ask may deprive a patient of religious ministry which he/she would have wanted.

•  Non-urgent messages may be left on the Chaplaincy department's answerphone, 3437. Urgent messages should never be left on the answerphone: ALWAYS phone switchboard, and ask them to page the appropriate chaplain.

Thank you for your cooperation.

Francis Buxton
Chaplaincy Team Leader

April 2003

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