Ambulatory Emergency Care Centre referrals

Direct GP referral to the Ambulatory Emergency Care Centre (AECC) enables suitable patients to come directly to the clinic for assessment and initial management, avoiding the need to first present to the Emergency Department.

Such patients must be <80 years old and ambulant with presentations including:
(not for management of chronic illness without acute episode)

• exacerbations of known cardiac failure or COPD
• anaemia (symptomatic or asymptomatic and Hb <90 and >60, not anticoagulated or with evidence of GI or UG bleeding)
• suspected DVT (not Pulmonary Embolism)
• cellulitis/skin/wound infections
• syncope/TIA workup (transient loss of consciousness with full recovery in a low-risk patient)
• mild electrolyte imbalances
• hyperglycaemia without ketosis
• UTI/dysuria/pyelonephritis/haematuria without clots
• vertigo/dizziness
• headache/migraine
• low risk chest pain, normal ECG, nil CVS risk factors, <45 years old.

Clinically unstable patients should be directed to be assessed in the Emergency Department.

If the referral is accepted, the GP will be sent instructions to be given to the patient including a map showing the clinic location. Referrals accepted from 8:30am – 5:00pm.

Contact the AECC registrar

Phone 6152 9479 between 8:30am – 5:00pm, Monday to Friday.