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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:
- Hepatobiliary and upper gastrointestinal
- Colorectal
- Breast
- Oncology/endocrine including transplant patients
Weekly outpatients clinics are held for General Surgery, and all the above surgical services.
Diagnostic procedures include:
- Colonoscopy
- ERCP
- Gastroscopy
- Sentinel lymph node biopsy
Clinics
| Emergency General Surgery | City Campus | Outpatients, Level 1 Centre | THU | |
| Emergency General Surgery | City Campus | Fracture Reception, Level 1 West | WED | |
| General Surgery | City Campus | Outpatients, Level 1 South |
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| General Surgery | City Campus | Outpatients, Level 1 South |
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| 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 | Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre within the VCCC Building | |||
| 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 |
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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:
- relevant clinical history for the patient
- the reason for referral
- patient details including address, date of birth and contact phone numbers
- your provider number
- the name of the consultant (for Medicare clinics)