General Surgery

Our General Surgery service provides inpatient and outpatient services for elective and emergency general surgical patients.

Four surgical units provide general inpatient and outpatient surgical services, and tertiary referrals for:

Weekly outpatients clinics are held for General Surgery, and all the above surgical services.

Diagnostic procedures include:

Emergency General Surgery	City Campus	Fracture Reception, Level 1 West	WED
Emergency General Surgery	City Campus	Outpatients, Level 1 Centre	THU
General Surgery	City Campus	Outpatients, Level 1 South	MON
Hepatobilary and Upper GI Urgent	City Campus	Outpatients, Level 1 South	MON
Hepatobiliary Post Op	City Campus	Outpatients, Level 1 Centre	THU
Hepatobilliary/Upper GI	City Campus	Outpatients, Level 1 South	MON
Surgical Endocrinology	City Campus	Outpatients, Level 1 South	WED
Surgical Oncology		Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre within the VCCC Building
Trauma	City Campus	Fracture Reception, Level 1 West	WED
Trauma	City Campus	Outpatients, Level 1 Centre	THU

Referrals

We accept referrals for this service.

Referrals are triaged depending on priority. Emergency cases can present to the Emergency & Trauma Service at any time.

Your patient may need to attend a Pre-Admission Clinic prior to their procedure.

To refer a patient, complete and send your referral to Outpatients by fax to (03) 9342 4234.

You can use the following form or a template from your own system.

Referrals should include:

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