*AUTHORISED USE ONLY*
If you wish to discuss direct referral options for your department/unit, please email VVSC@nh.org.au or call (03) 8405 8962.
Please select one of the following options to continue:
Adult Clinics
Advance Care Planning
- Information about Advance Care Planning and how to navigate the process
- Advice for the MTDM regarding the person who lacks capacity to complete an Advance Care Directive
- Goals of care discussions
- Conflict in decision-making
Post-Discharge Review *MED 5B ONLY*
Purpose: A virtual televideo service allowing the MED 5B team to book patients in for a reviewe by a General Medicine physician within a week of their Northern Hospital discharge. This appointment is organised by the discharging medical team.
Suitable reviews include:
- Assistance with follow-up of renal function/LFTs post-medication titration (i.e. withholding/ restarting anti-HT)
- Adjusting antibiotic duration following response
- ‘Screens’ – osteoporosis, myeloma, pre-biologics, etc.
- Investigations not yet reported (e.g. TTE, RFTs, NCS)
- Follow up of scans with results pending
- Assistance with prednisolone weaning
- “High-risk” discharges (e.g. patient-initiated discharges)
- Titration of analgesics
- Titration of hypoglycaemic agents (SGLT2s in particular)
- Recommencing statins
- Other things where historically you have written “GP to chase” in the discharge are likely to be suitable
Palliative Care
- Specialist palliative care with a life-limiting condition
Perioperative ENT
- Preoperative education
- Postoperative advice/management
Review & Access Clinic (RAC)
For use by ED and VVED only
Women's Health
Menopause
Providing supportive clinical assessment and management for patients experiencing perimenopausal or menopausal symptoms, with a focus on patient education, and collaborative care planning
Paediatric Clinics
Perioperative ENT
- Preoperative education
- Postoperative advice/management
Review & Access Clinic (RAC)
For use by ED and VVED only
