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Murnaghan Urology Centre

Member for

7 years 8 months
Submitted by Jacqueline.Ste… on

How we can help you

We offer a range of urology medical and surgical services to people in hospital and those living in the community. Urology diagnoses and treats problems with your kidneys, adrenal glands, ureters, bladder, urethra, and male reproductive organs like the prostate, testes, and penis. We have specialised doctors and nurses and work with a range of other health professionals to help you. 

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Location Details
Contact us
Phone
02 9382 2090
Fax
02 9382 4416

Opening hours:

7.00 am - 6.30 pm Monday to Friday

Monday - Our centre provides services to children from Sydney Children's Hospital 

Tuesday to Friday - Our centre provides services to adults from Prince of Wales Hospital

Manager:

Maria Pais

How to find us:

Level 3, Clinical Sciences Building, Prince of Wales Hospital (building 8 on our campus map).

Information about how to get to our Randwick campus

Location Media
Meta Description
The Murnaghan Urology Centre provides surgical and medical services to diagnose and treat those with urology problems.
Service Type

We provide a wide range of procedures to help you if you have:

Urinary tract infections (UTIs):

  • Urethritis - urethral infections
  • Cystitis - bladder infections
  • Pyelonephritis - kidney infections

Urinary tract blockages and retention:

  • Tumors in your pelvis
  • Stones - these can be in any part of your urinary tract and we treat with a high powered laser.
  • Narrowing of your urethra (tube that carries urine away from your bladder)
  • Trauma
  • Benign prostatic hyperplasia of the prostate - enlarged prostate in men

We also look at how your bladder is working through a procedure called Urodynamic Studies.

We can help you with the following services:

  • Cystoscopy - we examine your bladder and urethra using instruments that have an small camera. 
  • Ureteroscopy - to examine and/or to treat stones in your ureter, the tube connecting the kidney to the bladder. We can also take a biopsy (small amount of tissue) to examine an area of concern in your ureter.
  • Pyeloscopy - treats stones in your kidney.
  • Percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL) - surgical procedure to remove large kidney stones.
  • Transurethral resection of prostate (TURP) - this widens your urethra for better flow of urine.
  • Transurethral resection of Bladder tumor (TURBT) - is a procedure to remove tumor in your bladder.
  • Botox injection - to relax you bladder and relieve the feeling of needing to pass urine constantly.
  • Inserting a suprapubic catheter (SPC) - inserting a tube through your abdomen into your bladder to drain urine. This is a long-term solution for non-functioning bladders.

Other surgeries we can do:

  • Circumcision- removing the foreskin of the penis due tightening.
  • Vasectomy - Male sterilization.
  • Orchidectomy - removal of the testes due to cancer or injury.

Our team includes:

  • Specialist doctors (called Urologists), and urology nurses who perform your procedure and assess, treat and manage your care.
  • Anaesthetists and anaesthetic nurses will administer your anaesthesia.
  • Administration staff will assist with all levels of administration enquiries before and after your procedure.

Our Urologists are:

Name Specialty and title
Dr Andrew Richards Urology. Department head.
Dr Alistair Cameron-Strange Urology
Dr Tom Jarvis Urology
Dr Richard Savdie Urology
Dr Ranjan Arianayagam Urology

 

We have the following clinics for those living in the community to come in and see a specialised doctor or nurse:

Urology Registrar Outpatient Clinic:

You will see a specialised urology doctor at this clinic. You need a referral from your GP to access this clinic. Our doctor will look at all referrals and schedule appointments based on the severity of the conditions.

This clinic runs on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

Urology Continence Clinic

You will see a highly specialised clinical nurse specialist in this clinic. You need a referral from a Urologist (specialist doctor) to make an appointment. This clinic helps with:

  • learning how to put your own catheter in
  • bladder training
  • pelvic floor exercises
  • self-dilatation - inserting a tube in your urethra to stop it from narrowing
  • percutaneous/ transdermal tibial nerve stimulation - helps with overactive bladder.
  • Government funding including clinical support letters.
  • continence advice - using pads and clamp and other aids and equipment.

This clinic runs Wednesdays to Fridays.

Nurses Urology Clinic

You will see specialised urology nurses who can help with:

  • testing whether your urinary catheter can be removed
  • inserting urinary catheters
  • changing suprapubic catheters
  • bladder scans and looking at flow of urine
  • referrals to community nurses.

If you are coming to our outpatient clinics:

To attend the Urology Registrar Clinic, you will need a referral from your local doctor (GP). Once we receive your referral our doctors will schedule appointments based on how severe your condition is. Our administration staff will then contact you via letter or email with an appointment date.

If we have your current mobile phone number, you will receive a reminder via text messages 5 and 3 days before to your clinic appointment. Please confirm your appointment by replying to this message.

If you need to reschedule or cancel your appointment, please call our department on 02 9382 2090. Rescheduling may mean lengthy delays. 

If you need assistance before your next clinic appointment, see your GP or if it is an emergency, please attend your nearest hospital emergency department. 

If you are coming to our centre for a procedure:

Our hospital admissions office will contact you directly to offer you a date and time for your procedure.

If you need to reschedule or cancel your appointment, please call our admissions office on  

02 9382 1455.

For our outpatient clinic, please bring:

  • Medicare card/private health insurance details if you are privately insured.
  • List of current medications.
  • Any recent test results or scans.
  • A support person.

For a procedure, please bring:

  • Medicare card
  • List of medications
  • Recent test results, X-rays and scans

Please do not bring jewellery, valuables or large amounts of money. The hospital cannot accept responsibility for loss or damage of your property.

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If your procedure involves a General Anaesthetic or sedation, you need to arrange a responsible adult to take you home afterwards and stay with you overnight. The procedure cannot go ahead if there is not a responsible adult who can do this. On admission the nurses must get a mobile/phone number to contact that person, if not, we may have to reschedule to a time that is suitable for that person to collect you after your procedure.

Please let us know if you need an interpreter before your appointment date. You can contact us telephoning the Translating and Interpreting Service (TIS) on 131 450. Tell the operator what language you speak and then ask the interpreter to set up a telephone conversation between you, an interpreter, and our service. 

Murnaghan Urology Centre

Member for

7 years 8 months
Submitted by Jacqueline.Ste… on

How we can help you

We offer a range of urology medical and surgical services to people in hospital and those living in the community. Urology diagnoses and treats problems with your kidneys, adrenal glands, ureters, bladder, urethra, and male reproductive organs like the prostate, testes, and penis. We have specialised doctors and nurses and work with a range of other health professionals to help you. 

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Location Details
Contact us
Phone
02 9382 2090
Fax
02 9382 4416

Opening hours:

7.00 am - 6.30 pm Monday to Friday

Monday - Our centre provides services to children from Sydney Children's Hospital 

Tuesday to Friday - Our centre provides services to adults from Prince of Wales Hospital

Manager:

Maria Pais

How to find us:

Level 3, Clinical Sciences Building, Prince of Wales Hospital (building 8 on our campus map).

Information about how to get to our Randwick campus

Location Media
Meta Description
The Murnaghan Urology Centre provides surgical and medical services to diagnose and treat those with urology problems.
Service Type

We provide a wide range of procedures to help you if you have:

Urinary tract infections (UTIs):

  • Urethritis - urethral infections
  • Cystitis - bladder infections
  • Pyelonephritis - kidney infections

Urinary tract blockages and retention:

  • Tumors in your pelvis
  • Stones - these can be in any part of your urinary tract and we treat with a high powered laser.
  • Narrowing of your urethra (tube that carries urine away from your bladder)
  • Trauma
  • Benign prostatic hyperplasia of the prostate - enlarged prostate in men

We also look at how your bladder is working through a procedure called Urodynamic Studies.

We can help you with the following services:

  • Cystoscopy - we examine your bladder and urethra using instruments that have an small camera. 
  • Ureteroscopy - to examine and/or to treat stones in your ureter, the tube connecting the kidney to the bladder. We can also take a biopsy (small amount of tissue) to examine an area of concern in your ureter.
  • Pyeloscopy - treats stones in your kidney.
  • Percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL) - surgical procedure to remove large kidney stones.
  • Transurethral resection of prostate (TURP) - this widens your urethra for better flow of urine.
  • Transurethral resection of Bladder tumor (TURBT) - is a procedure to remove tumor in your bladder.
  • Botox injection - to relax you bladder and relieve the feeling of needing to pass urine constantly.
  • Inserting a suprapubic catheter (SPC) - inserting a tube through your abdomen into your bladder to drain urine. This is a long-term solution for non-functioning bladders.

Other surgeries we can do:

  • Circumcision- removing the foreskin of the penis due tightening.
  • Vasectomy - Male sterilization.
  • Orchidectomy - removal of the testes due to cancer or injury.

Our team includes:

  • Specialist doctors (called Urologists), and urology nurses who perform your procedure and assess, treat and manage your care.
  • Anaesthetists and anaesthetic nurses will administer your anaesthesia.
  • Administration staff will assist with all levels of administration enquiries before and after your procedure.

Our Urologists are:

Name Specialty and title
Dr Andrew Richards Urology. Department head.
Dr Alistair Cameron-Strange Urology
Dr Tom Jarvis Urology
Dr Richard Savdie Urology
Dr Ranjan Arianayagam Urology

 

We have the following clinics for those living in the community to come in and see a specialised doctor or nurse:

Urology Registrar Outpatient Clinic:

You will see a specialised urology doctor at this clinic. You need a referral from your GP to access this clinic. Our doctor will look at all referrals and schedule appointments based on the severity of the conditions.

This clinic runs on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

Urology Continence Clinic

You will see a highly specialised clinical nurse specialist in this clinic. You need a referral from a Urologist (specialist doctor) to make an appointment. This clinic helps with:

  • learning how to put your own catheter in
  • bladder training
  • pelvic floor exercises
  • self-dilatation - inserting a tube in your urethra to stop it from narrowing
  • percutaneous/ transdermal tibial nerve stimulation - helps with overactive bladder.
  • Government funding including clinical support letters.
  • continence advice - using pads and clamp and other aids and equipment.

This clinic runs Wednesdays to Fridays.

Nurses Urology Clinic

You will see specialised urology nurses who can help with:

  • testing whether your urinary catheter can be removed
  • inserting urinary catheters
  • changing suprapubic catheters
  • bladder scans and looking at flow of urine
  • referrals to community nurses.

If you are coming to our outpatient clinics:

To attend the Urology Registrar Clinic, you will need a referral from your local doctor (GP). Once we receive your referral our doctors will schedule appointments based on how severe your condition is. Our administration staff will then contact you via letter or email with an appointment date.

If we have your current mobile phone number, you will receive a reminder via text messages 5 and 3 days before to your clinic appointment. Please confirm your appointment by replying to this message.

If you need to reschedule or cancel your appointment, please call our department on 02 9382 2090. Rescheduling may mean lengthy delays. 

If you need assistance before your next clinic appointment, see your GP or if it is an emergency, please attend your nearest hospital emergency department. 

If you are coming to our centre for a procedure:

Our hospital admissions office will contact you directly to offer you a date and time for your procedure.

If you need to reschedule or cancel your appointment, please call our admissions office on  

02 9382 1455.

For our outpatient clinic, please bring:

  • Medicare card/private health insurance details if you are privately insured.
  • List of current medications.
  • Any recent test results or scans.
  • A support person.

For a procedure, please bring:

  • Medicare card
  • List of medications
  • Recent test results, X-rays and scans

Please do not bring jewellery, valuables or large amounts of money. The hospital cannot accept responsibility for loss or damage of your property.

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If your procedure involves a General Anaesthetic or sedation, you need to arrange a responsible adult to take you home afterwards and stay with you overnight. The procedure cannot go ahead if there is not a responsible adult who can do this. On admission the nurses must get a mobile/phone number to contact that person, if not, we may have to reschedule to a time that is suitable for that person to collect you after your procedure.

Please let us know if you need an interpreter before your appointment date. You can contact us telephoning the Translating and Interpreting Service (TIS) on 131 450. Tell the operator what language you speak and then ask the interpreter to set up a telephone conversation between you, an interpreter, and our service. 

Outback Eye Service

Member for

7 years 8 months
Submitted by Jacqueline.Ste… on

How we can help you

Our specialist team provide care for adults and children living in rural areas who have eye problems. We provide assessment, diagnosis, management and treatment, including surgery.

We visit five rural locations: Bourke Hospital, Brewarrina Hospital, Cobar Hospital, Lightning Ridge Hospital, Walgett Hospital.

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Location Details
Contact us
Phone
0418 322 705
Fax
02 9382 2690

Manager

Dr Michael Hennessy

Office opening hours

Monday - Friday 8.00am - 4.30pm 

Our office is located

Department of Ophthalmology, Level 2, South Wing, Edmund Blacket Building, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, NSW

Our services are provided in these locations

Bourke Hospital, Brewarrina Hospital, Cobar Hospital, Lightning Ridge Hospital, Walgett Hospital.

 

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Our specialist team provide care for adults and children with eye conditions. We visit five rural locations: Bourke Hospital, Brewarrina Hospital, Cobar Hospital, Lightning Ridge Hospital, Walgett Hospital.
Service Type

Our services include:

  • Specialist doctor (Ophthalmologist) clinic appointments for adults and children
  • Cataract surgery - A cataract causes your vision to become cloudy. Cataract surgery removes the lens of your eye and, in most cases, replace it with an artificial lens so your vision is clear.
  • Oculoplastics surgery - Surgical procedures around the eye socket, eyelid, tear ducts and your face. It includes reconstruction of the eye and surrounding structures, and is used to treat a range of problems, including droopy eyelids, tumours (e.g. melanomas), and blocked tear ducts.
  • Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) and retinal diagnostic testing - We use diagnostic equipment to take scans of your eye. This helps us examine the health of your eye.
  • Visual Field Assessments - Measures how far your eye sees in any direction without moving and how sensitive your vision is in different parts of your eye.

You will need a completed referral form from your local general practitioner (GP) or your specialist to use our services. If you need to make an appointment, please ask your doctor to email or fax us your referral form with any blood and imaging results. Please fax referrals to: 02 9382 2690 or email: WNSWLHD-OESReferrals@health.nsw.gov.au

We will review your referral and send you a letter in the mail with your appointment details. 

Usual wait times may vary. An urgent referral will be seen within 4 weeks.  A non-urgent referral may be seen in up to 12 months.

If you need to change or cancel your appointment, telephone 0418 322 705 or 0419 111 687.

Please let us know if you need an interpreter. You can contact us telephoning the Translating and Interpreting Service (TIS) on 131 450. Tell the operator what language you speak and then ask the interpreter to set up a telephone conversation between you, an interpreter, and the healthcare professional you want to speak with.

Outback Eye Service

Member for

7 years 8 months
Submitted by Jacqueline.Ste… on

How we can help you

Our specialist team provide care for adults and children living in rural areas who have eye problems. We provide assessment, diagnosis, management and treatment, including surgery.

We visit five rural locations: Bourke Hospital, Brewarrina Hospital, Cobar Hospital, Lightning Ridge Hospital, Walgett Hospital.

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Location Details
Contact us
Phone
0418 322 705
Fax
02 9382 2690

Manager

Dr Michael Hennessy

Office opening hours

Monday - Friday 8.00am - 4.30pm 

Our office is located

Department of Ophthalmology, Level 2, South Wing, Edmund Blacket Building, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, NSW

Our services are provided in these locations

Bourke Hospital, Brewarrina Hospital, Cobar Hospital, Lightning Ridge Hospital, Walgett Hospital.

 

Location Media
Meta Description
Our specialist team provide care for adults and children with eye conditions. We visit five rural locations: Bourke Hospital, Brewarrina Hospital, Cobar Hospital, Lightning Ridge Hospital, Walgett Hospital.
Service Type

Our services include:

  • Specialist doctor (Ophthalmologist) clinic appointments for adults and children
  • Cataract surgery - A cataract causes your vision to become cloudy. Cataract surgery removes the lens of your eye and, in most cases, replace it with an artificial lens so your vision is clear.
  • Oculoplastics surgery - Surgical procedures around the eye socket, eyelid, tear ducts and your face. It includes reconstruction of the eye and surrounding structures, and is used to treat a range of problems, including droopy eyelids, tumours (e.g. melanomas), and blocked tear ducts.
  • Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) and retinal diagnostic testing - We use diagnostic equipment to take scans of your eye. This helps us examine the health of your eye.
  • Visual Field Assessments - Measures how far your eye sees in any direction without moving and how sensitive your vision is in different parts of your eye.

You will need a completed referral form from your local general practitioner (GP) or your specialist to use our services. If you need to make an appointment, please ask your doctor to email or fax us your referral form with any blood and imaging results. Please fax referrals to: 02 9382 2690 or email: WNSWLHD-OESReferrals@health.nsw.gov.au

We will review your referral and send you a letter in the mail with your appointment details. 

Usual wait times may vary. An urgent referral will be seen within 4 weeks.  A non-urgent referral may be seen in up to 12 months.

If you need to change or cancel your appointment, telephone 0418 322 705 or 0419 111 687.

Please let us know if you need an interpreter. You can contact us telephoning the Translating and Interpreting Service (TIS) on 131 450. Tell the operator what language you speak and then ask the interpreter to set up a telephone conversation between you, an interpreter, and the healthcare professional you want to speak with.

Kidney Transplant Services - East Coast Renal Services

Member for

7 years 8 months
Submitted by Jacqueline.Ste… on

How we can help you

Our service helps you if you have advanced kidney disease and need a kidney transplant. A kidney transplant is a surgery to place a healthy kidney from a living or deceased person into a person whose kidney is no longer working properly.

We perform over 50 kidney transplants a year at Prince of Wales Hospital. Before and after the procedure people are cared for by their local Hospital either St George Hospital, Wollongong Hospital, Sydney Children’s Hospital or St Vincent’s Hospital.

Our services include:

  • assessing whether a transplant is a suitable treatment for you
  • assessing those who want to donate a kidney
  • providing education to donors and recipients and their families
  • biopsy and transplant pathology
  • telephone or videoconference services
  • yearly follow up of transplant recipients.

Our Transplant service is one of the oldest in Australia and performed the first kidney transplant in NSW on 5 August 1965 - this was only the second successful kidney transplant in Australia.

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Location Details
Contact us
Phone
02 9382 4434

Director of East Coast Transplant Service

Dr Karen Keung      

Contact a Renal Transplant Physician

Phone: 02 9382 4473

Contact a Transplant Coordinator

Phone: 0428 133 180

Opening hours

8:00am – 4:00pm Monday to Friday

How to find us

Kidney Care Centre, Level 3, Parkes Building, Prince of Wales Hospital (Building 7 on our campus map)

Information about how to get to our Randwick campus

Location Media
Meta Description
Prince of Wales Hospital Transplant Services
Service Type

Our transplant team includes doctors, nurses, social workers, pharmacists and a dietician. Our team will explain what kidney transplant options are available, what is involved in a kidney transplant and can help you decide what option is best for you.

Our specialists

Director of East Coast Transplant Service

 

Dr Karen Keung

MB BS BSc(med)  PhD FRACP

Transplant Physician

Dr Mangalee Fernando

MB BS PhD FRACP

Transplant Physician

Dr Grant Luxton

MB BS FRACP

Transplant Physician

Dr Kenneth Yong

MB BS PhD FRACP

Transplant Physician

Dr Sara Stoler

MBBCh, FCP(SA) MMED, Cert Neph (SA) Phys, FRACP

 

Our Transplant Coordinators

Denise Lawrence

Phone: 9382 4437

Hayley Pippard

Phone: 9382 4443

 

Patients with chronic kidney disease are eligible for transplant assessment. There is a kidney transplant waiting list. Your Nephrologist will arrange for you to have many tests to see if a transplant is a suitable treatment for you.

When you get on the transplant list, you can expect to wait at least 3 – 5 years for a transplant. You will need to have regular tests and keep healthy during this time. You need to make sure we can contact you at all times.

Our doctor will call you and ask you questions. If the Doctor is happy to proceed they will ask you to go to Prince of Wales Hospital for your transplant. Most patients stay in hospital for 5 – 14 days. When you leave Hospital, you will have a schedule of regular follow up appointments which are essential to attend.

We are a teaching hospital and you may be asked to be involved in research or for a student to be present at your appointment. You have a right to say no. If you do so, this will not impact in any way on the services we will provide.

Please let us know if you need an interpreter. You can contact us telephoning the Translating and Interpreting Service (TIS) on 131 450. Tell the operator what language you speak and then ask the interpreter to set up a telephone conversation between you, an interpreter, and the healthcare professional you want to speak with.

Kidney Transplant Services - East Coast Renal Services

Member for

7 years 8 months
Submitted by Jacqueline.Ste… on

How we can help you

Our service helps you if you have advanced kidney disease and need a kidney transplant. A kidney transplant is a surgery to place a healthy kidney from a living or deceased person into a person whose kidney is no longer working properly.

We perform over 50 kidney transplants a year at Prince of Wales Hospital. Before and after the procedure people are cared for by their local Hospital either St George Hospital, Wollongong Hospital, Sydney Children’s Hospital or St Vincent’s Hospital.

Our services include:

  • assessing whether a transplant is a suitable treatment for you
  • assessing those who want to donate a kidney
  • providing education to donors and recipients and their families
  • biopsy and transplant pathology
  • telephone or videoconference services
  • yearly follow up of transplant recipients.

Our Transplant service is one of the oldest in Australia and performed the first kidney transplant in NSW on 5 August 1965 - this was only the second successful kidney transplant in Australia.

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Location Details
Contact us
Phone
02 9382 4434

Director of East Coast Transplant Service

Dr Karen Keung      

Contact a Renal Transplant Physician

Phone: 02 9382 4473

Contact a Transplant Coordinator

Phone: 0428 133 180

Opening hours

8:00am – 4:00pm Monday to Friday

How to find us

Kidney Care Centre, Level 3, Parkes Building, Prince of Wales Hospital (Building 7 on our campus map)

Information about how to get to our Randwick campus

Location Media
Meta Description
Prince of Wales Hospital Transplant Services
Service Type

Our transplant team includes doctors, nurses, social workers, pharmacists and a dietician. Our team will explain what kidney transplant options are available, what is involved in a kidney transplant and can help you decide what option is best for you.

Our specialists

Director of East Coast Transplant Service

 

Dr Karen Keung

MB BS BSc(med)  PhD FRACP

Transplant Physician

Dr Mangalee Fernando

MB BS PhD FRACP

Transplant Physician

Dr Grant Luxton

MB BS FRACP

Transplant Physician

Dr Kenneth Yong

MB BS PhD FRACP

Transplant Physician

Dr Sara Stoler

MBBCh, FCP(SA) MMED, Cert Neph (SA) Phys, FRACP

 

Our Transplant Coordinators

Denise Lawrence

Phone: 9382 4437

Hayley Pippard

Phone: 9382 4443

 

Patients with chronic kidney disease are eligible for transplant assessment. There is a kidney transplant waiting list. Your Nephrologist will arrange for you to have many tests to see if a transplant is a suitable treatment for you.

When you get on the transplant list, you can expect to wait at least 3 – 5 years for a transplant. You will need to have regular tests and keep healthy during this time. You need to make sure we can contact you at all times.

Our doctor will call you and ask you questions. If the Doctor is happy to proceed they will ask you to go to Prince of Wales Hospital for your transplant. Most patients stay in hospital for 5 – 14 days. When you leave Hospital, you will have a schedule of regular follow up appointments which are essential to attend.

We are a teaching hospital and you may be asked to be involved in research or for a student to be present at your appointment. You have a right to say no. If you do so, this will not impact in any way on the services we will provide.

Please let us know if you need an interpreter. You can contact us telephoning the Translating and Interpreting Service (TIS) on 131 450. Tell the operator what language you speak and then ask the interpreter to set up a telephone conversation between you, an interpreter, and the healthcare professional you want to speak with.

Heart Support Service

Member for

8 years
Submitted by rod.isaacs on

 

The Heart Support Service is a community-based nurse specialist team that coordinates with your GP and Cardiologist to support and manage your heart condition at home.

 

Who is eligible?

People who have a diagnosis of heart failure.

 

Patient Education

Simple steps for managing heart failure – English:

 

Heart Failure Action Plan:

Heart Failure Action Plan

Contact Details

Heart Support Service:

  • Monday - Friday (07:30 - 16:00)
  • Phone: 9113-3042
  • Fax: 9113-1826

Heart Failure Clinic:

Clinic times: 
Clinic appointments are available on Tuesday morning (09:00 - 12:00). 
Phone: 9113-3172
Fax: 9113-1826

Booking:
Your local doctor (GP) needs to fax a referral letter to Cardiology Department. Our receptionist will contact you to arrange an appointment.

Location:
The Heart Failure Clinic is located in the Cardiology Department, Level 1, Clinical Services Building, St George Hospital.
Enter via Kensington St.

 

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Location Details
Contact us
Phone
02 9113 3042
Fax
02 9113 1826
Street address
Clinical Services Building, St George Hospital, Kensington St, Kogarah NSW Australia 2217
Location Media

-33.966662, 151.134842

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Pre-Admission Clinic

Member for

8 years
Submitted by rod.isaacs on

 

 

Frequently Asked Questions

Why do I need to attend the Pre-Admission Clinic?

As a patient, you are required to attend Pre-Admission Clinic to ensure you are fit enough for your intended surgery. During this appointment you will see an anaesthetic doctor, surgical doctor, nurse and other health workers. It is also a good opportunity to have any of your questions answered before your admission to hospital.

How do I get to the Pre-Admission Clinic?

We are located on level 3, opposite the central lifts.

What do I bring to this appointment?

  • A recent health summary from your General Practitioner (GP), including a list of current medications and over the counter medications.
  • Your Medicare card
  • Recent X-Rays and scans relevant to your surgery
  • Copies of the most recent letter/s from your specialist (for example: cardiologists, haematologists, respiratory, renal and endocrine)
  • Your most recent blood test results (within 6 months)
  • Copies of your investigation results. (for example your most recent cardiac echocardiogram, stress test or coronary angiogram).
  • Details of any anaesthetic complications you are aware of and any allergy testing you may have completed.
  • Any other significant investigation results or issues that you feel would help us manage your surgery better.

What happens if I do not bring all the information?

If we do not have all the necessary reports and information at your appointment, it may mean the doctors will need to delay your surgery or refer you to other specialists, depending on your type of surgery and your medical conditions.

Do I need to fast for this appointment?

Fasting is not required for this appointment.

What happens if I do not attend this appointment?

Failure to attend this could result in your surgery being delayed. Please call us on 9540 7611 if you need to change your appointment date.

Who do I call if I require any further information about this appointment?

Please contact the Admission officer at 9540 7611 if you have any questions.

What if English is not my first language?

Please inform the booking officer who can organise an interpreter. We do encourage a friend or relative who can speak English to accompany you to avoid any delay.

How long does the pre-admission visit take?

Depending on your surgery, you may be here for up to 2 to 6 hours. Please remember to bring some lunch especially if you are diabetic. There are cafeteria facilities available; however it is advisable to bring your own food if walking is difficult for you.

What if I need support after surgery?

Please let us know if you will require assistance following surgery. We will be pleased to refer you to a social worker or other services.

Can I have Telehealth?

Please let us know if you have special circumstances. 

This will depend on your type of surgery and your medical conditions.

How do I contact the Pre-Admission Clinic?

Office hours: Monday – Friday 8:00am to 4:30pm

Telephone: 02 9540 7611.

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Contact us
Phone
02 9540 7624
Street address
Cnr Kingsway & Kareena Rd Caringbah NSW 2229

Office hours: Monday – Friday 8:00am to 4:30pm

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St George Hospital provides a multidisciplinary team of experts to guide, support and care for patients through both the elective and emergency surgical journeys.

Resources

Getting Ready for Surgery

Pain Relief Following Surgery

Managing Catheters and Drains at Home

What to Expect After Surgery

Accessing medical care after discharge

Walking After Surgery:

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Phone
02 9113 1111
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Gray St, Kogarah, NSW 2217
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This information is for you and your family if you are coming to our hospital for surgery. We want to help you feel confident about your surgery.  

At Prince of Wales Hospital we perform these types of surgery: 

  • Cardiothoracic – heart and lung surgery
  • Ophthalmology – eye surgery  
  • Orthopaedics – bone and joint surgery  
  • Plastic Surgery – repair or reconstruct skin or other body tissue 
  • Neurosurgery – nerve, spinal cord or brain surgery  
  • Vascular surgery – surgery on arteries or veins 
  • Urology – surgery on the urinary system including bladder and kidneys 
  • General surgery including: upper gastrointestinal tract, colorectal, oncology surgery 
  • Dental, oral and maxillofacial - teeth, jaw and face surgery  
  • Ear, nose and throat surgery. 

The information below will help you plan and prepare for your surgery. We provide information on what to expect before, during and after your surgery.  

How we can help you

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Admissions Department
Phone
02 9392 9001

Perioperative Unit

Phone:

02 9382 3847

Anaesthetic Pre Evaluation Clinic

Phone:

02 9382 3865

Email

SESLHD-APECclinic@health.nsw.gov.au

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