REFERRAL NETWORK
Radiology is late for three departments at once. Nobody has that number.
Inside a hospital, most referrals are internal — and internal referrals are the ones nobody tracks, because they never leave the building.
A hospital can track internal and external referrals in one place, see where reports stall, and close the loop back to the referring clinician. No fee is paid for sending a patient.
Where it goes wrong here
Three failures specific to this side of the referral.
Internal referrals leave no trail
A verbal handover between departments is a referral with no record and no clock on it.
A stalled report blocks more than one department
When imaging runs late, every department waiting on it runs late, and the delay is attributed to the wrong desk.
The outside referrer never hears back
The GP who sent the admission finds out from the patient, which is how a referring relationship ends.
What the network carries
Three things between providers, and nothing else.
The referral
Who, to whom, and the clinical reason.
The acknowledgement
Confirmation the patient arrived.
The report
Attached against the original referral.
What nobody gets paid
No fee, commission, rebate or revenue share reaches anyone for sending a patient — in either direction. Fee-splitting for referrals is prohibited under IMC (Professional Conduct) Regulations 2002 cl. 6.4 and the NMC Professional Conduct Regulations 2023, and the exposure sits on the practitioner's registration.
The loop, measured.
Mechanism, not outcome. None of these figures is a claim about what Drapto recovers.
- 35 loop closed
- 17 seen, no report
- 39 never arrived
- 9 still open
Join the referral network.
Organisation details only. The clinical referral itself — the patient, the reason, the report — happens inside Drapto, behind a login, and never on this page.
Close the loop on the referrals you already send.
The appointment and referral layer is free forever. Revenue integrity is the paid product, and the only thing we sell.