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Diabetes

This page contains information for general practitioners on how to refer patients to Diabetes services at Princess Alexandra Hospital, Logan Hospital and Redland Hospital. 

Referral Criteria

• Please include all of the general referral criteria
  
  and
  
  
• type of diabetes and duration of disease
• previous therapies that have been used to treat the disease
• prescence of any complications and details when screening last performed
• previous allied health reviews of risk factors, weight/BMI
• blood pressure
• history of smoking
• whether patient has a GPMP/TCA in place
• HBA1c
• FBE, ELFTs, TFT, TSH
• fasting lipids - Chol, LDL, HDL, Tg
• urinary protein / microalbumin
• If Type 1 diabetes: anti-transglutaminase antibodies
• If peripheral neuropathy: B12, folate, serum EPP
  

Diabetes Patient Assessment Form (Redland Hospital)

Specialists and areas of interest

• Princess Alexandra Hospital
• Logan Hospital
• Redland Hospital
  

Send referrals to one of the following

Send referrals to one of the following

Hospital	eTransfer	Fax	Phone
Princess Alexandra Hospital		(07) 3176 1285	(07) 3176 1060
QEII Jubilee Hospital		n/a	n/a
Logan Hospital		(07) 3299 9589	(07) 3299 8383
Redland Hospital PO Box 585 Cleveland Q 4163 E-referrals (preferred), facsimile or post new referrals to service director	eReferrals accepted	(07) 3488 3767	(07) 3488 3715

 

Urgent referrals 

Should a patient need to be seen urgently, contact the outpatient department and ask to speak to the Clinical Nurse.
 

Patients must bring 

• Medicare card
• Any concession cards (e.g. Pension, Health Care, DVA, PBS Safety Net, ADF, etc)
• Copy of referral from GP or hospital

Where are the services located? 

 

• Princess Alexandra Hospital
• Logan Hospital
• Redland Hospital (Medical Ambulatory Services) Weippin Street, Cleveland - enter main entrance at Redland Hospital and make your way along the corridor on the right side (opposite pathology)

Hours of Service

• Princess Alexandra Hospital
• Logan Hospital
• Redland Hospital - Monday to Friday 8.00 am to 4.30 pm

Bulk billed clinics  

• Queensland Health now offers private (bulk billed) services in many outpatient clinics.  This means that your patient has the right to choose to be treated as a private patient and can be bulk billed for the service with no gap.  To refer your patient privately, please include a named referral to one of the staff specialists with Right of Private Practice. 
  
  To find the name of a staff specialist with Right of Private Practice:
  
  Princess Alexandra Hospital Private Practice, Phone:  (07) 3176 2721
  QEII Jubilee Hospital Private Practice, Phone:  (07) 3275 6392
  Logan Hospital Private Practice, Phone (07) 3299 8590
  Redland Hospital specialists with Right of Private Practice

 

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