The best treatment for your patients. The best service for you.

Referring/registering patients

You have various options for registering your patients with us. Choose the most convenient one for you.

Monday to Friday 8.00 am to 5.00 pm

+41 61 315 23 20

rheuma-schmerz@bethesda-spital.notexisting@nodomain.comch

How does DocBox work?

Thanks to a direct connection to the practice information system, master data and referral information can be automatically transferred to the application. As the referring doctor, you save time and the process is less prone to errors.

What are your benefits?

  • electronic registration directly from the practice software
  • no typing, no printing - less effort, fewer queries, fewer errors
  • immediate confirmation after successful transmission of information to the hospital

Already working with DocBox?

  • Add Bethesda Hospital to your favourites to be able to select them with one click.
  • Do you share the process with your practice staff? You can cache notifications and someone else or yourself can edit them later.
  • Create Bethesda templates and access pre-filled registration forms to process recurring referrals even faster.

You are not yet working with DoxBox, but would like to?

  • Check whether you work with one of the practice software providers listed below.
  • Get in touch with us. zwm@bethesda-spital.notexisting@nodomain.comch / Tel. 061 315 21 14
  • We take care of DocBox access (licence) for your practice.
  • We train you and your practice staff on site in your practice on how to use DocBox.

Fill out the web form on our website quickly and easily.

Communication takes place via a secure platform and is encrypted in accordance with data protection regulations. Your texts and files are protected against access by unauthorised persons at all stages of transmission.

Web form rheumatism/pain

Order the remittance pad

Do you prefer to work in writing by hand?

Order the DIN A4 remittance pad by telephone on 061 315 21 14 or by e-mail at zwm@bethesda-spital.notexisting@nodomain.comch.

We will send you the pad within two to three working days.

To be able to use all the functions of the referral forms, please open the forms directly in Acrobat Reader and not in your Internet browser. In addition, please use a secure HIN e-mail address for secure transmission of the forms.

Acrobat Reader can be downloaded here free of charge.

When and how can you refer your patients to us?

We treat all degenerative and inflammatory rheumatological diseases, with a focus on pain syndromes. We prioritise and triage your outpatient or inpatient referral based on your question/request, urgency and our expertise.

Appointments for your patient

  • Priority 1: within 1 to 2 weeks
  • Priority 2: within 2 to 3 weeks
  • Priority 3: within 4 to 8 weeks

Possible indications

  • Degenerative: unclear and/or therapy-resistant, acute or chronic, generalised or localised pain syndromes; in/of joints, spine, nerves, fasciae; ineffective outpatient therapies
  • Inflammatory: diagnosis/classification, arthritis, gout, collagenoses, vasculitis, etc.
  • Osteoporosis, bone diseases

Referral channels


Appointments for your patient
within 1 to 4 working days

Possible indications

  • Acute arthritis / soft tissue inflammation, high suspicion of inflammatory systemic diseases
  • Radicular syndrome / disc hernias
  • Suspected osteoporotic fracture
  • Exacerbated pain situation with severe suffering

Referral channels

Intervention takes place after prior consultation (incl. order and laboratory)

Appointments for spinal intervention
1 to 3 weeks; within one week of the consultation appointment at Bethesda Hospital

Possible indications
Back problems

Referral channels

Intervention planning

  • if the type of intervention is not yet entirely clear: Fast Track preliminary examination in the outpatient clinic, 60 minutes incl. clinical diagnostics, information and laboratory test
  • for a clear, specific intervention: fast track, 30 minutes, with information and lab test

Intervention with us takes place directly without prior consultation


Appointments for intervention
< 1 week

Possible indications
Clearly defined, urgent back problems (e.g. radicular pain syndrome)

Referral channels

Your preparatory work in the practice

  • Handing over the SSIPM information sheet to your patient and joint discussion in the practice
  • Laboratory tests (CRP, BSR, simple blood count) are taken in the practice; alternatively, the laboratory tests can also be taken at Bethesda Hospital on the day of the intervention. Your patient must arrive at our practice 90 minutes before the intervention appointment.

Intervention planning
Intervention can be carried out without prior consultation at Bethesda Hospital, i.e. planning of the intervention without delay.

Important documents

We are happy to provide you with the following information material:

Consent IVR

Transparent, uncomplicated, based on partnership - this is how we work with you

"In this video, you will learn from me how we organise our referral management to meet your needs as a referring doctor."

Prof Dr Dr med Stephan Gadola
Head Physician Rheumatology & Pain Medicine

The processes in the Rheumatism/Pain Clinic after your referral

From your assignment to the report

Working together for your patients

Your patients are our focus. We proactively inform you about our work and assure you and your patients of the highest medical and therapeutic quality.

  • Your patient will receive an appointment within 24 hours (by telephone or in writing).
  • You will be assigned a person of trust (senior doctor or ward doctor) who can provide you with information at any time.
  • We will involve you in every decisive step (treatment, procedure, discharge, report).
  • After outpatient treatment, you will receive the consultation report within 7 working days of the consultation.
  • You will receive the final discharge report within 10 working days of your patient's discharge.
  • We will ask you and your patient about their satisfaction.

Download graphic "Processes after your referral"

Rheumatology & Pain Medicine Team

We do our best for you and your patients.

medical profession

Professor Dr.med. Dr.rer.nat. Stephan Gadola

Chefarzt Rheumatologie und Schmerzmedizin

Dr. med. Michael Gengenbacher

Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Ärztlicher Direktor / Stv. CEO, Mitglied der Spitalleitung

Matteo Gusberti

Stv. Oberarzt Rheumatologie und Schmerzmedizin

Dr. med. Christa Ritter

Oberärztin Rheumatologie
Tel +41 61 315 23 20

Greta Roland

Stv. Oberärztin Rheumatologie und Schmerzmedizin

Dr. med. Anna Thoma

Stv. Chefärztin Rheumatologie und Schmerzmedizin

Hagena Thuraisingam

Stv. Oberärztin Rheumatologie und Schmerzmedizin

Dr. med. Christof Widmer

Stv. Chefarzt Rheumatologie
Tel +41 61 315 23 20

Secretariat, outpatient clinic, clinic management

Giulia Croce

Sekretariat Bewegungsapparat

Maleen Luisa Feger

MPA, Ambulatorium Rheuma-Schmerz
Tel +41 61 315 23 20

Adriana Gehrig

MPA, Ambulatorium Rheuma-Schmerz
Tel +41 61 315 23 20

Patrizia Guardala

MPA, Ambulatorium Rheuma-Schmerz
Tel +41 61 315 23 20

Manuela Heymoz

MPA, Ambulatorium Rheuma-Schmerz
Tel +41 61 315 23 20

Sümeyye Kuzören

MPA, Ambulatorium Rheuma-Schmerz
Tel +41 61 315 23 20

Kathrin Müller-Gyssler

Sekretariat Bewegungsapparat

Agmie Percuku

MPA in Ausbildung, Ambulatorium Rheuma-Schmerz

Lind Podrimcaku

MPA in Ausbildung, Ambulatorium Rheuma-Schmerz

Isabell Räuber

Klinikmanagerin a.i.
Tel +41 61 315 23 20

Alessia Schroeder

MPA in Ausbildung, Ambulatorium Rheuma-Schmerz

Jessica Schweickert

MPA, Ambulatorium Rheuma-Schmerz
Tel +41 61 315 23 20

Janine Schöpfer

Leitende MPA, Ambulatorium Rheuma-Schmerz
Tel +41 61 315 23 20

Paulina Warga

MPA, Ambulatorium Rheuma-Schmerz
Tel +41 61 315 23 20

Take part in our exciting training programmes.

The training courses will take place from 12.45 pm to 1.45 pm at Bethesda Hospital or optionally virtually. Please inform yourself about the implementation and the corona protection measures before each training course.

Vorfussdeformitäten bei Rheumatologischen Erkrankungen

Donnerstag, 08.01.2026
12:45 – 13:45 Uhr

1 Credit Point (SGAIM, SGPMR, SGR)

Weiterbildung CAS Palliative Care

Donnerstag, 15.01.2026 – Freitag, 16.04.2027
9:00 – 17:00 Uhr

«Update -  neue Therapieoptionen bei chronisch entzündlichen Dermatosen»

Donnerstag, 15.01.2026
12:45 – 13:45 Uhr

1 Credit Point (SGAIM, SGPMR, SGR)

To the training courses at Bethesda Hospital

Training courses to look up

We record all of our training courses. You can watch them on our media centre at any time and from any location.

to the training courses
Bethesda Hospital media centre

BLOG POSTS ABOUT THE RHEUMATISM & PAIN CLINIC

Bethesda Blog

News

for referring physicians and on the topics of the musculoskeletal system

Bethesda Spital / Corporate

09. November 2025

Radio Basilisk under the sign of rheumatism and osteoporosis

On Monday, 10 November, Radio Basilisk is dedicating an entire theme day to the widespread diseases rheumatism and osteoporosis. In several contributions, Prof. Dr Stephan Gadola, Head of Rheumatology at Bethesda Hospital, and Anita Oswald from the Rheumaliga beider Basel will provide fascinating insights into the causes, prevention and support options.

The programmes at a glance:
🕘 09.15 a.m. - What is rheumatism? (Prof Stephan Gadola)
🕚 11.45 am - The role of the Rheumaliga beider Basel (Anita Oswald)
🕛 12.45 pm - Osteoporosis prevention (Prof Stephan Gadola)
🕓 3.45 pm - Support for osteoporosis (Anita Oswald)

The theme day is all about raising awareness: the aim is to inform those affected and interested about symptoms, therapies and prevention options - and also to draw attention to the public event on osteoporosis on 20 November at 4.00 pm at Bethesda Hospital.

👉 Listen in now:
Radio Basilisk theme day with the Rheumaliga: When the bones break silently

Register for the osteoporosis lecture on 20 November 2025 at 6 pm

Bethesda Spital / Corporate

30. October 2025

Titular professorship for PD Dr Christopher Böhlke - an extraordinary milestone

PD Dr Christopher Böhlke, senior physician at Bethesda Hospital's Palliative Care Centre, has been appointed titular professor by the University of Basel's Faculty of Medicine.
This honour is a significant milestone - particularly in palliative care, where professorships are rare. It is all the more remarkable that this appointment was made at a peripheral hospital.

With Prof Dr Jan Gärtner and Prof Dr Christopher Böhlke, two professors of palliative care are working at the same hospital - a unique constellation in Switzerland. Both also work together in a growing team in the Palliative Care Research Group at the Department of Clinical Research and co-operate closely with the Swiss Go Trial Group in conducting clinical trials at the University Hospital Basel.

We warmly congratulate Prof Böhlke on this special recognition of his many years of commitment to medicine, research and teaching.

Bethesda Spital / Corporate

11. September 2025

Bethesda Spital erneut unter den weltbesten Spitälern in den Kategorien "Smart" & "Specialized"