Your Transitional Care Unit team includes doctors, nurses, and other health professionals.

The team will work with you, your family, and your carers to support your physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing while you are in hospital.

We will also start planning your discharge from hospital. This will help make sure you are safe, supported and ready for the next stage of your care. 

Our specialists are:

Name	Title and Specialty
Professor Gideon Caplan	Head of Aged Care Department
Dr Song Lee	Geriatrician (expert aged care doctor)
Dr Stephanie Ward	Geriatrician
Dr Gemma Cranney	Geriatrician

 

Our unit will provide you nursing care 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Our doctors oversee your care and are on call at all times. 

Our broader team of physiotherapists, occupational therapists and social workers are generally available 8.00 am - 5.00 pm Monday to Friday. 

Ask our team any questions about your care, treatment or your transition to residential aged care. We will do our best to connect you with the right person as soon as possible. Sometimes you might need to wait for a response depending upon the time of day, staff availability and urgency of your matter. This may be more likely after business hours or on the weekends or public holidays. 

Waiting for information can be difficult when you are worried about someone you care about. Out staff will do their best to keep you informed, answer your questions and arrange further support. 

We encourage families to participate in care and decision making where appropriate. We ask each family to nominate one contact person to receive updates from our team and share this with other family members and friends. This reduces confusion and supports timely communication. 

Our priority is to provide you care and support that meets your individual needs while you move to residential aged care. 

Sometimes you may stay in another ward in the hospital. This can be due to the availability of beds  or because of your individual care needs. Wherever you stay, our team will continue to support you. They will regularly review your care and work with other staff to plan your treatment and move to residential aged care. 

My Aged Care website can help you navigate the aged care system. You can also call 1800 200 422. 

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.

Your Transitional Care Unit team includes doctors, nurses, and other health professionals.

The team will work with you, your family, and your carers to support your physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing while you are in hospital.

We will also start planning your discharge from hospital. This will help make sure you are safe, supported and ready for the next stage of your care. 

Our specialists are:

Name	Title and Specialty
Professor Gideon Caplan	Head of Aged Care Department
Dr Song Lee	Geriatrician (expert aged care doctor)
Dr Stephanie Ward	Geriatrician
Dr Gemma Cranney	Geriatrician

 

Our unit will provide you nursing care 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Our doctors oversee your care and are on call at all times. 

Our broader team of physiotherapists, occupational therapists and social workers are generally available 8.00 am - 5.00 pm Monday to Friday. 

Ask our team any questions about your care, treatment or your transition to residential aged care. We will do our best to connect you with the right person as soon as possible. Sometimes you might need to wait for a response depending upon the time of day, staff availability and urgency of your matter. This may be more likely after business hours or on the weekends or public holidays. 

Waiting for information can be difficult when you are worried about someone you care about. Out staff will do their best to keep you informed, answer your questions and arrange further support. 

We encourage families to participate in care and decision making where appropriate. We ask each family to nominate one contact person to receive updates from our team and share this with other family members and friends. This reduces confusion and supports timely communication. 

Our priority is to provide you care and support that meets your individual needs while you move to residential aged care. 

Sometimes you may stay in another ward in the hospital. This can be due to the availability of beds  or because of your individual care needs. Wherever you stay, our team will continue to support you. They will regularly review your care and work with other staff to plan your treatment and move to residential aged care. 

My Aged Care website can help you navigate the aged care system. You can also call 1800 200 422. 

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.

Our clinic includes experts with these specialities:

• Medical oncologists (cancer doctors)
• Cancer genetic specialists (doctor who specialises in cancer passed down from family in your genes)
• Genetic counsellors (health professional who provides counselling on the results of genetic testing)
• Pathologist (doctor who specialises in diagnosing diseases by looking at body tissues, cells, and fluids)
• Bioinformatics experts and scientists (translate your test results into meaningful information using computers).

Our team are:

Name	Position and speciality
Prof. David Goldstein	Medical Oncologist, Senior Staff Specialist
Prof. Kathy Tucker	Cancer Geneticist, Senior Staff Specialist
Dr. Milita Zaheed	Genetic Oncologist, Staff Specialist
Dr. Frank Lin	Medical Oncologist
Dr. Helen Ke	Medical Oncologist (Fellow)
Ms. Bridget Douglas	Genetic Counsellor

Our team will work with your cancer doctor to provide them additional expert advice on your cancer care.  

First discuss our clinic with your cancer doctor to see if it suits your needs.

If you decide to use our service, your doctor will need to fill in this referral form.

Our team of experts will then review your information. They may have a meeting with your doctor or they may want you to meet you via telephone, videoconference or face to face. 

Our team will then send a report to your cancer doctor with our recommendations for your care and your doctor will discuss these with you. 

We might ask you if you would like to be involved in research. Your doctor will also talk with you about this at referral.

We will contact you if you need an appointment. We hold appointments fortnightly on Wednesdays between 12 noon - 4.00 pm. You can attend via videoconference, telephone or face to face. We are located in the Nelune Comprehensive Cancer Centre, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick. 

If we need to meet separately with your cancer doctor, we hold these expert team meetings fortnightly on Tuesdays from 2.00 - 3.00 pm. 

To change or cancel an appointment please call (02) 9382 5111.

The service is funded by Medicare and the Medical Research Future Fund so there is currently no cost to patients.

Participation in our research is optional and helps advance precision oncology in Australia. You can find out more about the Precision Care Clinic and Initiative on our website.

Let us know if you need an interpreter and we can arrange one. You can also contact us by telephoning the Translating and Interpreting Service National on 131 450. Tell the operator your language and ask them to call us.