Aged Care Rehabilitation Unit
How we can help you
Our team specialises in the care of older people with complex health needs. We focus on rehabilitation after illness or injury and set goals with you and support you in therapies that improve your function and independence. The aim is for you to return your previous level of ability.
We are located on Level 4 South of the Acute Services Building, Prince of Wales Hospital.
Acute Aged Care Extension Unit (AACE)
Also on Level 4 South is our AACE, a six bed unit specialising in care of older patients with behavioural symptoms related to dementia or delirium. The comfort and wellbeing of these patients is enhanced by the quiet environment provided and the staff with specialised skills.
The AACE is arranged like a home with a communal lounge and access to a safe outdoor area. It is a secure unit and you will need to press the buzzer on the wall just before the unit to alert staff that you have arrived.
Manager
Nurse Unit Manager Jane Bayaca
How to find us
Level 4 South, Acute Services Building, Prince of Wales Hospital (Building 30 on our campus map)
Information about how to get to our Randwick campus
Acute Aged Care Extension Unit (AACE)
Phone
02 9382 9493
How to find us
Level 4 South, Acute Services Building, Prince of Wales Hospital (Building 30 on our campus map)
Our team includes doctors, nurses and allied health staff who work together with you, your family and carer to meet your physical, mental and emotional needs while you are in hospital and to begin planning for when you leave hospital.
The aged care wards offer nursing care to patients 24 hours a day, seven days a week. A doctor is always on call. Other members of the team are available from 8am to 5pm, Monday to Friday. Our nurses will try to connect you with other members of staff at your request but, depending on the time and day and the seriousness of the situation, you may have to wait, particularly when it is after hours or on the weekend. We know this can be frustrating, especially if you are worried about your relative, and will do what we can to answer questions in the meantime.
We value your opinions and know that clear communication is essential for your care. If you do not understand anything please ask us:
- Why are you doing that?
- What does that word mean?
- What does that procedure involve?
- What alternatives are there?
- What side-effects might there be?
- How will this help?
When it comes to sharing information with family and friends, it is helpful if one person takes responsibility for asking staff for updates and passing this information on to the others.
What happens if my relative is transferred to another ward in the hospital?
Sometimes, due to bed availability or specific care needs of a patient, patients may be admitted to other wards around the hospital. These patients will still be cared for by the aged care team and will be seen on a regular basis.
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.
www.myagedcare.gov.au is an Australian Government website and national phone line (1800 200 422) with up-to-date information about Australia’s aged care system and services. It assists people to navigate the aged care system and provides referrals for assessment and service provision
The Aged Care Information Line provides information on home and community care and financial benefits. Telephone 1800 500 853 TTY 1800 555 677
Aged Care Rehabilitation Unit
How we can help you
Our team specialises in the care of older people with complex health needs. We focus on rehabilitation after illness or injury and set goals with you and support you in therapies that improve your function and independence. The aim is for you to return your previous level of ability.
We are located on Level 4 South of the Acute Services Building, Prince of Wales Hospital.
Acute Aged Care Extension Unit (AACE)
Also on Level 4 South is our AACE, a six bed unit specialising in care of older patients with behavioural symptoms related to dementia or delirium. The comfort and wellbeing of these patients is enhanced by the quiet environment provided and the staff with specialised skills.
The AACE is arranged like a home with a communal lounge and access to a safe outdoor area. It is a secure unit and you will need to press the buzzer on the wall just before the unit to alert staff that you have arrived.
Manager
Nurse Unit Manager Jane Bayaca
How to find us
Level 4 South, Acute Services Building, Prince of Wales Hospital (Building 30 on our campus map)
Information about how to get to our Randwick campus
Acute Aged Care Extension Unit (AACE)
Phone
02 9382 9493
How to find us
Level 4 South, Acute Services Building, Prince of Wales Hospital (Building 30 on our campus map)
Our team includes doctors, nurses and allied health staff who work together with you, your family and carer to meet your physical, mental and emotional needs while you are in hospital and to begin planning for when you leave hospital.
The aged care wards offer nursing care to patients 24 hours a day, seven days a week. A doctor is always on call. Other members of the team are available from 8am to 5pm, Monday to Friday. Our nurses will try to connect you with other members of staff at your request but, depending on the time and day and the seriousness of the situation, you may have to wait, particularly when it is after hours or on the weekend. We know this can be frustrating, especially if you are worried about your relative, and will do what we can to answer questions in the meantime.
We value your opinions and know that clear communication is essential for your care. If you do not understand anything please ask us:
- Why are you doing that?
- What does that word mean?
- What does that procedure involve?
- What alternatives are there?
- What side-effects might there be?
- How will this help?
When it comes to sharing information with family and friends, it is helpful if one person takes responsibility for asking staff for updates and passing this information on to the others.
What happens if my relative is transferred to another ward in the hospital?
Sometimes, due to bed availability or specific care needs of a patient, patients may be admitted to other wards around the hospital. These patients will still be cared for by the aged care team and will be seen on a regular basis.
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.
www.myagedcare.gov.au is an Australian Government website and national phone line (1800 200 422) with up-to-date information about Australia’s aged care system and services. It assists people to navigate the aged care system and provides referrals for assessment and service provision
The Aged Care Information Line provides information on home and community care and financial benefits. Telephone 1800 500 853 TTY 1800 555 677
Hereditary Cancer Centre
How we can help you
We provide a diagnostic and genetic counselling service for adults and children who have, or are at high risk of hereditary cancers and tumours. We also see some people who have or are at high risk of a hereditary endocrine tumour. We will discuss your risk of cancer and whether genetic testing is helpful for your health care.
You may have an appointment in person, video consultation (called Telehealth) or by telephone.
Head of Department
Dr Lesley Andrews
Opening Hours
Monday to Friday 8.00am to 4.30pm
How to find us
We are located in the Nelune Comprehensive Cancer Centre within the Bright Alliance Building (Building 3A on our campus map)
We are on the corner of High Street and Avoca Street in Randwick. The main public entrance is on Avoca Street. You may also enter the Cancer Centre from level 2 of the High St entrance to Prince of Wales Hospital.
Information about how to get to our Randwick campus
Our team consists of:
Medical
- Dr Lesley Andrews (Head of Department)
- Associate Professor Kathy Tucker AO (Clinical Geneticist Clinical Lead)
- Dr Milita Zaheed
- Dr Minmin Lin
Genetic Counsellors
- Rachel Williams (Senior Genetic Counsellor Network Clinical Lead)
- Tanya Dwarte (Senior Genetic Counsellor)
- Catherine Speechly (Senior Genetic Counsellor)
- Nicole Cousens
- Bridget Douglas
- Ella Zurita
If you are concerned about your own diagnosis of cancer or your family history, speak to your doctor for a referral to the Hereditary Cancer Centre.
Please ask your doctor to send us your referral letter. We will also ask you to complete a registration form. You can do this now by completing this and sending it in with your referral. Otherwise, our administration staff will contact you to complete this with you.
Once we have received your referral, a member of our staff will contact you to make your appointment.
If you need to change or cancel your appointment, please call us on 02 9382 5107.
You will be asked about your personal medical history and your family history of cancer. Our staff will assess your risk and whether genetic testing could help your family. We also give advice about screening and ways to reduce cancer risk.
If you are an Australian Medicare or Veteran Affairs card holder, your appointment will be bulk billed.
- Current Medicare card or Veteran Affairs card
- Any Health Care Card, Pensioner Concession Card or Commonwealth Seniors Health Care Card
- Insurer details (eg workers compensation, public liability or third party)
- Your private health fund membership card if you are currently insured with a private health fund
- Recent X-rays or medical images and their reports, if applicable
- Activities to keep you entertained while waiting (for example, a book, music player with headphones, crosswords). There is also a television and magazines available in the waiting area.
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 Centre is involved in national and international research to improve care for people with an inherited cancer genetic condition. Your doctor or genetic counsellor may talk with you about research at your appointment.
We are a teaching hospital and medical trainees, student doctors and genetic counsellors may be involved and supervised by senior staff during your visit. You have the right to say no. If you do so, this will not change your care in any way.
Hereditary Cancer Centre
How we can help you
We provide a diagnostic and genetic counselling service for adults and children who have, or are at high risk of hereditary cancers and tumours. We also see some people who have or are at high risk of a hereditary endocrine tumour. We will discuss your risk of cancer and whether genetic testing is helpful for your health care.
You may have an appointment in person, video consultation (called Telehealth) or by telephone.
Head of Department
Dr Lesley Andrews
Opening Hours
Monday to Friday 8.00am to 4.30pm
How to find us
We are located in the Nelune Comprehensive Cancer Centre within the Bright Alliance Building (Building 3A on our campus map)
We are on the corner of High Street and Avoca Street in Randwick. The main public entrance is on Avoca Street. You may also enter the Cancer Centre from level 2 of the High St entrance to Prince of Wales Hospital.
Information about how to get to our Randwick campus
Our team consists of:
Medical
- Dr Lesley Andrews (Head of Department)
- Associate Professor Kathy Tucker AO (Clinical Geneticist Clinical Lead)
- Dr Milita Zaheed
- Dr Minmin Lin
Genetic Counsellors
- Rachel Williams (Senior Genetic Counsellor Network Clinical Lead)
- Tanya Dwarte (Senior Genetic Counsellor)
- Catherine Speechly (Senior Genetic Counsellor)
- Nicole Cousens
- Bridget Douglas
- Ella Zurita
If you are concerned about your own diagnosis of cancer or your family history, speak to your doctor for a referral to the Hereditary Cancer Centre.
Please ask your doctor to send us your referral letter. We will also ask you to complete a registration form. You can do this now by completing this and sending it in with your referral. Otherwise, our administration staff will contact you to complete this with you.
Once we have received your referral, a member of our staff will contact you to make your appointment.
If you need to change or cancel your appointment, please call us on 02 9382 5107.
You will be asked about your personal medical history and your family history of cancer. Our staff will assess your risk and whether genetic testing could help your family. We also give advice about screening and ways to reduce cancer risk.
If you are an Australian Medicare or Veteran Affairs card holder, your appointment will be bulk billed.
- Current Medicare card or Veteran Affairs card
- Any Health Care Card, Pensioner Concession Card or Commonwealth Seniors Health Care Card
- Insurer details (eg workers compensation, public liability or third party)
- Your private health fund membership card if you are currently insured with a private health fund
- Recent X-rays or medical images and their reports, if applicable
- Activities to keep you entertained while waiting (for example, a book, music player with headphones, crosswords). There is also a television and magazines available in the waiting area.
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 Centre is involved in national and international research to improve care for people with an inherited cancer genetic condition. Your doctor or genetic counsellor may talk with you about research at your appointment.
We are a teaching hospital and medical trainees, student doctors and genetic counsellors may be involved and supervised by senior staff during your visit. You have the right to say no. If you do so, this will not change your care in any way.
Palliative Care
How we can help you
Palliative care looks after people who are living with a life-limiting illness or one that cannot be treated and will lead to their death (called a terminal illness).
Palliative care can improve your symptoms and help you achieve the best possible quality of life through your illness. We aim to prevent and relieve suffering by treating your pain and other problems, whether they are physical, psychosocial and spiritual. Our team can also help your family members to manage at this time.
Our services
Inpatient consultations - visiting you in hospital
We visit you when you are an inpatient in a ward at Prince of Wales Hospital. We provide specialist advice to manage your symptoms and improve your quality of life. We can also help you arrange to get home and have palliative care in your home.
Community service - visiting you in your home
We visit you in your home to help you manage your symptoms, care for you at the end of your life and support you and your family with your loss and grief. We can help you with arrangements if you wish to die in your home. Our nurses, doctors and allied health professionals can visit you. We also can lend you equipment.
We can visit you 7 days a week between 8.00 am and 6.00 pm. You can also call us via the hospital switchboard outside these hours on (02) 9382 2222.
Residential aged care facilities
Our specialised Nurse Practitioner can visit you if you live in a nursing home in our hospital's catchment area. This service is available Monday to Friday and your family doctor (GP) can access specialist advice over the telephone at weekends.
Outpatient clinic appointments at our hospital
We have two services which involve you coming to our hospital for outpatient clinic appointments:
| Clinic name | Description | Day, time | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Palliative Care Medical Clinic | You will see a Doctor who specialises in Palliative Care and will give you advice and support. | Monday, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays |
Nelune Comprehensive Cancer Centre within the Bright Alliance Building (Building 3 on our campus map) Phone: 02 9382 5111 |
| Palliative Supportive Multidisciplinary Clinic | This clinic is for people who have a life-threatening illness, non-malignant illness or neurodisability and are in the last 12 - 24 months of their life. You will be reviewed by a team of specialist health professionals including your GP, medical specialists, nurses and allied health professionals. We can also arrange telehealth and home visits. Visit our webpage for more information on this service. |
Tuesdays 9.00 am to 2.00 pm |
Professorial Suite, Level 2, Campus Centre Building, Prince of Wales Hospital (Building 16 our campus map). Phone: 02 9382 0400 |
Receptionist hours
Monday to Friday 8.30am to 5.00pm
After hours
call Hospital switchboard 02 9382 2222
How to find us
If coming in for an outpatient clinic appointment see the location in the information on the left.
Our palliative care team includes:
- Doctors
- Specialist nurses (Clinical Nurse Consultants and Nurse Practitioners)
- Occupational therapists
- Physiotherapists
- Pharmacists
- Speech Pathologists
- Social workers
- Dieticians
- Clinical psychologists.
We also work with your family, Medical Specialist and family doctor (GP).
If you live in our hospitals catchment area and have a life-limiting illness such as cancer, emphysema or heart disease you may be referred by your local family doctor (GP) or a medical specialist to use our services. Ask your doctor to make an electronic referral for you.
We will send you an appointment letter in the mail, confirming the date and time and where you should go for your appointment.
If you need to change or cancel your appointment, please call us on 9382 5111.
- Current Medicare card or Veteran Affairs card
- Any Health Care Card, Pensioner Concession Card or Commonwealth Seniors Health Care Card.
- Your Private Health Fund Membership card if you are currently insured with a private health fund.
- A list of your current medications.
- Recent X-rays or medical images and their reports, if applicable.
- Activities to keep you entertained while waiting (for example, a book, music player with headphones, crosswords).
Please let us know if you need an interpreter. You can contact us by telephoning the Translating and Interpreting Service (TIS) National 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.
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, and this will not impact on the services we provide.
Palliative Care
How we can help you
Palliative care looks after people who are living with a life-limiting illness or one that cannot be treated and will lead to their death (called a terminal illness).
Palliative care can improve your symptoms and help you achieve the best possible quality of life through your illness. We aim to prevent and relieve suffering by treating your pain and other problems, whether they are physical, psychosocial and spiritual. Our team can also help your family members to manage at this time.
Our services
Inpatient consultations - visiting you in hospital
We visit you when you are an inpatient in a ward at Prince of Wales Hospital. We provide specialist advice to manage your symptoms and improve your quality of life. We can also help you arrange to get home and have palliative care in your home.
Community service - visiting you in your home
We visit you in your home to help you manage your symptoms, care for you at the end of your life and support you and your family with your loss and grief. We can help you with arrangements if you wish to die in your home. Our nurses, doctors and allied health professionals can visit you. We also can lend you equipment.
We can visit you 7 days a week between 8.00 am and 6.00 pm. You can also call us via the hospital switchboard outside these hours on (02) 9382 2222.
Residential aged care facilities
Our specialised Nurse Practitioner can visit you if you live in a nursing home in our hospital's catchment area. This service is available Monday to Friday and your family doctor (GP) can access specialist advice over the telephone at weekends.
Outpatient clinic appointments at our hospital
We have two services which involve you coming to our hospital for outpatient clinic appointments:
| Clinic name | Description | Day, time | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Palliative Care Medical Clinic | You will see a Doctor who specialises in Palliative Care and will give you advice and support. | Monday, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays |
Nelune Comprehensive Cancer Centre within the Bright Alliance Building (Building 3 on our campus map) Phone: 02 9382 5111 |
| Palliative Supportive Multidisciplinary Clinic | This clinic is for people who have a life-threatening illness, non-malignant illness or neurodisability and are in the last 12 - 24 months of their life. You will be reviewed by a team of specialist health professionals including your GP, medical specialists, nurses and allied health professionals. We can also arrange telehealth and home visits. Visit our webpage for more information on this service. |
Tuesdays 9.00 am to 2.00 pm |
Professorial Suite, Level 2, Campus Centre Building, Prince of Wales Hospital (Building 16 our campus map). Phone: 02 9382 0400 |
Receptionist hours
Monday to Friday 8.30am to 5.00pm
After hours
call Hospital switchboard 02 9382 2222
How to find us
If coming in for an outpatient clinic appointment see the location in the information on the left.
Our palliative care team includes:
- Doctors
- Specialist nurses (Clinical Nurse Consultants and Nurse Practitioners)
- Occupational therapists
- Physiotherapists
- Pharmacists
- Speech Pathologists
- Social workers
- Dieticians
- Clinical psychologists.
We also work with your family, Medical Specialist and family doctor (GP).
If you live in our hospitals catchment area and have a life-limiting illness such as cancer, emphysema or heart disease you may be referred by your local family doctor (GP) or a medical specialist to use our services. Ask your doctor to make an electronic referral for you.
We will send you an appointment letter in the mail, confirming the date and time and where you should go for your appointment.
If you need to change or cancel your appointment, please call us on 9382 5111.
- Current Medicare card or Veteran Affairs card
- Any Health Care Card, Pensioner Concession Card or Commonwealth Seniors Health Care Card.
- Your Private Health Fund Membership card if you are currently insured with a private health fund.
- A list of your current medications.
- Recent X-rays or medical images and their reports, if applicable.
- Activities to keep you entertained while waiting (for example, a book, music player with headphones, crosswords).
Please let us know if you need an interpreter. You can contact us by telephoning the Translating and Interpreting Service (TIS) National 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.
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, and this will not impact on the services we provide.
Palliative Care
How we can help you
Palliative care looks after people who are living with a life-limiting illness or one that cannot be treated and will lead to their death (called a terminal illness).
Palliative care can improve your symptoms and help you achieve the best possible quality of life through your illness. We aim to prevent and relieve suffering by treating your pain and other problems, whether they are physical, psychosocial and spiritual. Our team can also help your family members to manage at this time.
Our services
Inpatient consultations - visiting you in hospital
We visit you when you are an inpatient in a ward at Prince of Wales Hospital. We provide specialist advice to manage your symptoms and improve your quality of life. We can also help you arrange to get home and have palliative care in your home.
Community service - visiting you in your home
We visit you in your home to help you manage your symptoms, care for you at the end of your life and support you and your family with your loss and grief. We can help you with arrangements if you wish to die in your home. Our nurses, doctors and allied health professionals can visit you. We also can lend you equipment.
We can visit you 7 days a week between 8.00 am and 6.00 pm. You can also call us via the hospital switchboard outside these hours on (02) 9382 2222.
Residential aged care facilities
Our specialised Nurse Practitioner can visit you if you live in a nursing home in our hospital's catchment area. This service is available Monday to Friday and your family doctor (GP) can access specialist advice over the telephone at weekends.
Outpatient clinic appointments at our hospital
We have two services which involve you coming to our hospital for outpatient clinic appointments:
| Clinic name | Description | Day, time | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Palliative Care Medical Clinic | You will see a Doctor who specialises in Palliative Care and will give you advice and support. | Monday, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays |
Nelune Comprehensive Cancer Centre within the Bright Alliance Building (Building 3 on our campus map) Phone: 02 9382 5111 |
| Palliative Supportive Multidisciplinary Clinic | This clinic is for people who have a life-threatening illness, non-malignant illness or neurodisability and are in the last 12 - 24 months of their life. You will be reviewed by a team of specialist health professionals including your GP, medical specialists, nurses and allied health professionals. We can also arrange telehealth and home visits. Visit our webpage for more information on this service. |
Tuesdays 9.00 am to 2.00 pm |
Professorial Suite, Level 2, Campus Centre Building, Prince of Wales Hospital (Building 16 our campus map). Phone: 02 9382 0400 |
Receptionist hours
Monday to Friday 8.30am to 5.00pm
After hours
call Hospital switchboard 02 9382 2222
How to find us
If coming in for an outpatient clinic appointment see the location in the information on the left.
Our palliative care team includes:
- Doctors
- Specialist nurses (Clinical Nurse Consultants and Nurse Practitioners)
- Occupational therapists
- Physiotherapists
- Pharmacists
- Speech Pathologists
- Social workers
- Dieticians
- Clinical psychologists.
We also work with your family, Medical Specialist and family doctor (GP).
If you live in our hospitals catchment area and have a life-limiting illness such as cancer, emphysema or heart disease you may be referred by your local family doctor (GP) or a medical specialist to use our services. Ask your doctor to make an electronic referral for you.
We will send you an appointment letter in the mail, confirming the date and time and where you should go for your appointment.
If you need to change or cancel your appointment, please call us on 9382 5111.
- Current Medicare card or Veteran Affairs card
- Any Health Care Card, Pensioner Concession Card or Commonwealth Seniors Health Care Card.
- Your Private Health Fund Membership card if you are currently insured with a private health fund.
- A list of your current medications.
- Recent X-rays or medical images and their reports, if applicable.
- Activities to keep you entertained while waiting (for example, a book, music player with headphones, crosswords).
Please let us know if you need an interpreter. You can contact us by telephoning the Translating and Interpreting Service (TIS) National 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.
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, and this will not impact on the services we provide.
Haematology Services
How we can help you
We diagnose and manage benign and malignant blood disorders including:
- Acute and chronic leukaemia
- Hodgkin and Non-Hodgkin Lymphomas
- Multiple myeloma, amyloidosis
- Myeloproliferative disorders such as polycythemia vera, essential thrombocytosis
- Myelodysplastic syndromes
- Thalassemia, sickle cell diseases, and other haemoglobinopathies
- Venous thrombosis such as DVT, Pulmonary Emboli and other clots
- Bleeding disorders such as Haemophilia, von Willebrand’s disease, platelet disorders
- Haemochromatosis
- Anaemia, thrombocytopenia
- Bone marrow disorders.
Our services are for those staying in our hospital and those who are living in the community.
Inpatients
If you need to stay in hospital, we have a Haematology and Oncology ward located on Level 4 North of the Acute Services Building. Here we can administer chemotherapy and other treatments. Chemotherapy is one type of medicines that destroy cancer cells. We can also provide Autologous Stem Cell Transplantation (transplant of your own stem cells).
Outpatients
If you are living in the community you can also come into an appointment at our Haematology Oncology Day Centre. This is located on Level 4 of the Nelune Comprehensive Cancer Centre within the Bright Building. Senior nursing staff liaise with specialist doctors (Haematologists) to provide patients with day-only chemotherapy, iron infusions, patient education and apheresis (removal of parts of your blood).
The Centre also provides adult apheresis services to the Randwick Hospitals campus, and can collect and store Haemapoietic Stem Cells.
Our Cancer Outreach Team can provide cancer treatments and care in your home. NSW Health Pathology can also come to your home to take blood tests and venesections.
We run Clinical Trials of new treatments through our Haematology Clinical Trials Unit, Scientia Clinical Research and the University of New South Wales.
Head of Haematology Department
Dr Giselle Kidson-Gerber
Nurse Unit Manager of Haematology and Oncology Day Centre
Jed Young
Opening hours
Monday to Friday 8.00am to 5.00pm.
How to find us
If you have an appointment booked with one of our Haematology doctors, please come to our Haematology Clinics, Level 2, Nelune Comprehensive Cancer Centre (Building 3 on our campus map)
If you have a treatment booked in our Haematology Oncology Day Centre (HODC), Please come to Level 4, of the Nelune Comprehensive Cancer Centre (Building 3 on our campus map)
Our Haematology Oncology Ward is on Level 4 North, Acute Services Building, Prince of Wales Hospital, (Building 30 on our campus map)
Our specialist doctors
- Professor Mark Hertzberg, AM
- Dr Tim Brighton
- Dr Carol Cheung
- Dr Giselle Kidson-Gerber
- Dr Annmarie Bosco
- Dr Susan MacCallum
- Dr Shiv Agrawal
- Professor Robert Lindeman
We may suggest seeing a particular doctor who is a specialist in the area you need care.
Our specialist doctors also have a close association with the University of New South Wales. They participate in clinical trials, research, medical education and training of junior doctors.
Our specialised nurses
Clinical Nurse Consultant Haematology: Rachelle Frith
Clinical Nurse Consultant Blood and Haemoglobinopathies: Leanne Crnek
Clinical Nurse Educator: Sophie Owen
Clinics are held at the Nelune Haematology and Cancer Centre at the Bright Building, Prince of Wales Hospital, corner Avoca and High Sts, Randwick.
Each specialist has their own clinic and may be accompanied by our Advanced Trainees in Haematology.
If you live in the South East Sydney region and have a suspected or confirmed cancer you may be referred by your local family doctor or a medical specialist to use our services. Please request your doctor to send us your referral letter together with all relevant test results.
Once we have received a completed referral, we will send you a confirmation appointment letter, which will tell you where your appointment is located and what information you should bring with you.
If you need to change or cancel your appointment, please call us on 02 9382 5111 or email: seslhd-pow-ncccadmin@health.nsw.gov.au.
- Blood test results, Recent X-rays or medical images and their reports, if applicable
- Current Medicare card or Veteran Affairs card
- Any Health Care Card, Pensioner Concession Card or Commonwealth Seniors Health Care Card
- Insurer details (workers compensation, public liability or third party)
- Your private health fund membership card if you are currently insured with a private health fund
- Activities to keep you entertained while waiting (for example, a book, music player with headphones, crosswords). There is also a television and magazines available in the waiting area
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.
We are a teaching hospital and student doctors or nurses may be involved and supervised by senior staff during your visit. You have the right to say no. If you do so, this will no impact in any way on the services we will provide.