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Please remember for any urgent clinical concerns regarding your patients, including scan results which require hospital review, please contact the hospital on-call O&G Registrar or Staff Specialist via hospital switch:
– RPA Hospital (02) 9515 6111
– Canterbury Hospital (02) 9787 0000
The hospital GP Liaison Midwife phone line is available for routine clinical advice and support:
– 0425 230 662 (Mon-Fri 8:00am-4:30pm)
New ANSC Schedule of Visits
The SLHD revised COVID-19 ANSC Schedule of Visits has recently been updated. Please refer to the new schedule for ongoing patient care. The new schedule and supporting resources are available on the CESPHN maternal health website and on Sydney Health Pathways.
A GP referral letter is required for all women booking into the Birth Centre at RPA Hospital. Please remember to provide your patients with their obstetrics referral letter prior to their booking appointment if they are choosing this model of care.
All antenatal forms are accessed on the CESPHN RPA/Canterbury ANSC page including details on how to input forms into Medical Director and Best Practice. See links to the obstetrics referral form below:
Note this is a standardised referral form to commence antenatal care. It is not the hospital booking in form. For hospital bookings, women are required to complete the First Antenatal Visit On-line Booking Form
New: Canterbury Hospital Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy Clinic
A new Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy (HDP) Clinic has opened at Canterbury Hospital. This clinic will be run by two renal physicians, Dr Lucy Wynter and A/Prof Adrian Gillin, who will be working closely with the Canterbury Obstetric department. Dr Wynter is a Clinical Academic and nephrologist at Canterbury hospital and will be working alongside A/Prof Gillin, who ran the HDP clinic at Royal Prince Alfred for nearly 30 years.
The clinic has commenced consultations via internal referrals and will expand to start accepting GP referrals in 2022. Further information including referral criteria and contact information will be included in the next ANSC newsletter, CESPHN website and Sydney HealthPathways.
Case study: Management of underactive thyroid in pregnancy
Melissa is a 35yo woman who presents to the GP after having a positive urine pregnancy test at 7+2 weeks gestation by LMP. She has had 1 previous early miscarriage and has no significant past medical history. She is taking no regular medications and no supplements. Should thyroid function screening be included as part of her routine antenatal blood tests?
Welcome to our new website! As you may have noticed, our website looks different. Central and Eastern Sydney PHN have moved to a new site and although much has remained the same, we have introduced some new functions. These include: Updated navigation When you land on our new website, you…
Immunisation weekly update – 8 February 2023 HPV vaccination now single dose on NIP Changes from 6 February 2023 to human papillomavirus vaccination (Gardasil®9) dose schedule under the National Immunisation Program: Routine schedule for people aged 12 to 13 years will change to a single dose (previously a 2 dose…
Sydney World Pride 2023 – General Practice Support CESPHN is a proud supporter of the Sydney WorldPride 2023 that is occurring from 17 February to 5 March 2023. To assist people to get the right care and avoid unnecessary presentations to emergency departments, we are encouraging general practices to review…
COVID-19 weekly update – 08 JANUARY 2023 ATAGI 2023 Booster Advice The Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) have updated their recommendations on the use of booster doses of COVID-19 vaccine in 2023. ATAGI recommends a 2023 COVID-19 vaccine booster dose for adults in the following groups, if their…
MEDIA RELEASE: Canterbury Head to Health service opens doors to offer free, immediate mental health support. Canterbury Head to Health opened its doors in late January, offering free and immediate support for anyone in Canterbury and the surrounding regions experiencing distress or mental health concerns.Trained professionals are providing short to…
CESPHN Vax at Home service The CESPHN Vax at Home Service is for those people who are housebound and not able to leave their house to receive a COVID-19 vaccination or booster. The service will accept referrals for people 16 years and over. Referrals will be accepted from GPs and…
IAR-DST Training resumes today The implementation of the Initial Assessment and Referral Decision Support Tool (IAR-DST) training is gaining momentum both within CESPHN and nationally. National GP training numbers are closing in on 300 and over 50 of these have been trained by CESPHN. This year we are excited to…