If you want to refer a patient to us for care, make sure to include all required and requested information in your referral. This allows us to review and triage your request as efficiently as possible.
Include in every referral
As outlined by the Department of Health, referral requests should include:
- Patient demographic information
- Referrer demographic information
- Reason for referral
- Presenting problem
- Service(s) requested
- Required referral information specified by statewide or local referral criteria
- Current patient management
- Impact of the problem on the patient
- Name of the consultant and provider number (for Medicare clinics)
- Investigation reports related to the referral
The RMH referral form (327KB - pdf document)
In the interests of providing timely care, please note that the practitioner named on your patient’s referral may not be the same practitioner who provides care at the RMH.
Named referrals
Referrals to the RMH should be directed to a preferred doctor.
To make this easier, we have included our heads of department in the Department drop-down in our standard referral form (PDF). Alternatively, you can name a different practitioner from our list of RMH doctors and include it in the 'Practitioner's name' field.
Please note that the practitioner named on your patient’s referral may not be the same practitioner who provides care at the RMH.