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Non Emergency Admissions
Outpatient Appointments
Dear Colleague
The Directory of Specialist Private Practice (Southern Health) is to aid you in obtaining a consultative appointment for
your patients.
This Directory is currently
being updated and will be posted to this site shortly.
All patients needing advice ought be referred to these rooms
except those obviously needing the services of the complex and multidisciplinary clinics
at Monash Medical Centre, Clayton. Even these patients may be best served by attending one
of our specialists in his/her rooms in the first instance. The alternative is a detailed
letter to the Head of the particular Unit (c/o the Outpatient Department) outlining why
the patient needs to be seen in the first instance at the Clinic rather than in rooms.
Patients seen in the private rooms of specialists who are
deemed to need the services of the complex or multidisciplinary clinics will be booked for
such a Clinic by the specialist.
Patients attending the private rooms of our specialists,
will, if hospital care is required, elect either private or public hospital accommodation.
Insurance status is relevant to this decision but some non insured patients may elect to
have private hospital care. Our specialists will be able to place your patient directly on
the waiting list if public hospital care is required.
I do hope the system outlined, which has been in operation
for several years now, is working for you and your patients. I appreciate that certain
areas, i.e. Obstetrics, may have different arrangements which are working satisfactorily.
This will continue.
You may be aware that Waiting Lists for certain areas of
Elective Surgery are quite long. Suggesting to your patients that they use the private
system or institutions with shorter Waiting lists may be appropriate.
Yours sincerely,
Chief Medical Officer
Southern Health
Community
Based Pre Admission Service for
Elective Surgical Patients
Southern Health offers a Community Based Pre Admission
service to all elective surgery patients who are waiting for surgery at Monash
Clayton, Monash Moorabbin, or Dandenong Hospitals.
The patient after seeing the surgeon with the pending surgery
confirmed is given a Health Status Questionnaire for completion and return to
the Elective Booking office. Patients according to their response are then
directed into an appropriate stream of pre-operative care.
All patients are assessed based on their response to the
Health Status Questionnaire. Nursing and medical staff performs the triage of
the questionnaire with action taken appropriate to the responses given.
Patients may be asked to go straight to a General
Practitioner for pre-operative assessment, alternatively they may also need to
be seen at a multi-disciplinary clinic consisting of allied health, medical,
nursing and anaesthetists.
General practitioners involved in pre-operative assessment
have attended an accreditation session, which involves two hours of education
delivered by the Medical Director of the Critical Care program for Southern
Health, Dr. Bill Shearer.
General Practitioners may obtain detailed information
regarding the accreditation process by contacting Dr Bill Shearer on b.shearer@southernhealth.org.au
The preadmission questionnaire is available here:
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