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Statewide Specialist Clinic Referral Criteria – Managing referrals to non-admitted specialist services policy: Communications pack 2023

The Victorian and Tasmanian Primary Health Network Alliance (VTPHNA) is working with the Victorian Government’s Department of Health to raise awareness of a new policy that outlines the department’s expectations regarding access to non-admitted specialist services.

This toolkit includes:

  • A news article
  • A summary of the policy for GPs
  • Key messages
  • Short and long newsletter copy
  • Social media tiles and copy

Download comms pack here (.pdf)

Background

Non-admitted hospital services are provided to public patients who do not undergo a formal admission process and do not occupy a hospital bed.   

The Victorian public hospital and health service system provides millions of these appointments each year.  

Improving equitable and timely access to non-admitted specialist services is essential to enable early advice on treatment options. The target audience for this policy is Victorian public health services, particularly their executive and management teams. 

In January 2023, the Managing referrals to non-admitted specialist services in Victorian public health services policy was released by the Department of Health. It outlines the department’s expectations regarding access to non-admitted specialist services. It replaces the 2013 publication, Specialist clinics in Victorian public hospitals: access policy. 

For more detail see:  

  • specialist services minimum referral information 
  • public hospital specialist clinics – locations 
  • statewide referral criteria for clinicians  

Key messages

  • The new policy provides GPs with clear expectations of management for non-admitted specialist services in Victorian hospitals.
  • The new policy outlines how referrals to specialist clinics are managed by hospitals, and the expected timeframes and principles of when hospitals communicate to a referring GP.
  • The new policy states that health services can request but can no longer insist on having a name on a referral. It is not a prerequisite, or a reason for rejecting a referral. A doctor can include the name of a specialist on the referral if it is known or published.

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    • About the Alliance
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    • Leadership
    • PHN Publications
    • Thought Leadership
  • Our Work
    • Best practice, prevention, management and support
      • Accelerated uptake of Hepatitis C medicines
      • Carer Awareness in General Practice
      • Community led cancer screening
      • GP Respiratory Clinics
      • Infection Prevention Helpline
      • Lymphoedema Primary Care Capacity Building
      • Optimal Care Pathways
        • Optimal Care Pathways – Oesophagogastric Cancer OCP
        • Optimal Care Pathways – Prostate Cancer
      • Place-based Suicide Prevention
      • Priority Primary Care Centres
      • Statewide Paediatric HealthPathways Project
      • Victorian HIV and Hepatitis Integrated Training and Learning (VHHITAL)
        • VHHITAL – Education and events copy pack
    • Connecting health with other sectors
      • Doctors in Secondary Schools
        • Apply to Doctors in Secondary Schools: one day out of your everyday
      • Enhancing Mental Health Support in Secondary Schools
    • Health system integration and reform translation
      • Alcohol and other Drug Integration
      • Care Pathways and Referral
        • COVID-19 care pathways
      • Enhancing Carers Supports Within Primary Health Care
      • Mental Health Integration
      • My Health Record Expansion
      • PIP QI Incentive partnership
      • SafeScript
      • State Emergency and Support Recovery
      • Statewide Specialist Clinic Referral Criteria
        • Statewide Specialist Clinic Referral Criteria – Managing referrals to non-admitted specialist services policy: Communications pack 2023
      • The National Disability Insurance Scheme in Victoria and Tasmania
      • Voluntary Assisted Dying
  • News and Education
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    • News
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