Department of Oncology

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Head of Unit: Associate Professor Michael Green

Oncology / Haematology / Palliative Care

Telephone:  8345-6666

Western Hospital - Oncology Day Ward Enquiry Line:  8345-6370

Located - 2nd Floor South, Main Building, Gordon Street, Footscray 3011

KEY PERSONNEL

POSITION NAME and CONTACT
Nurse Unit Manager - Ward 2 East Gael Wilder   8345-6370
Manager Oncology Hospital In The Home Gael Wilder   8345-6370
Nurse Unit Manager - Oncology Day Unit Nadine Gilby  8345-6370

Oncology Service at Western Health provides for a wide range of services related to the treatment on oncological diseases.  The service manages approximately 10,500 inpatient admission per year, with approximately 90% of admission attending the oncology day unit.  The Oncology Service also manages approximately 3,700 outpatient attendances each year.  Services include inpatient ward - 2 East, Oncology Hospital In The Home and the Oncology Day Ward, providing care to patients, across the continuum of ther treatment plan.  The Western Health Oncology Services predominately manages solid tumour malignancies.  The addition of the haematology consultancy service in 2007 provides additional expertise in the management of non-malignant haematological conditions for Western Health. 

Cancer Services at Western Health are actively involved in teaching and research programs.  The teaching program includes teaching of undergraduate and postgraduate medical personnel, nursing staff and allied health staff.  The Unit is accredited by the Royal Australasian College of Physicians for training two advanced trainee registrars - Victorian Medical Oncology Training Program   

The Department Personnel Include:
2.8 EFT Consultant Physicians 2 Accredited Registrar Positions 1 Non-accredited Position
2 HMO Positions Inpatient and Day Oncology wards  employ approx 40 EFT of nursing staff .

The Oncology department is affiliated with the Western and Central Melbourne Integrated Cancer Services a Department of Human Service initiate to improve the delivery of cancer care across Victoria. 

 ONCOLOGY SERVICES PROVIDED

ONCOLOGY SERVICES BUSINESS HOURS

Outpatient Clinic - 1st Floor, Eleanor Street Building, Western Hospital, Footscray

Referral by GP, Consultant Physician, Surgeon, Internal Western Health

Wednesday Morning

Multidisciplinary Clinics:

Breast, Upper GI, Colorectal, Lung, Head and Neck, Urology, Gynaecology, Cancer Genetics

 

 Oncology Services attend several multidisciplinary clinics - please use link to review

INPATIENTS UNITS

  • Ward 2 East -               Located on 2nd Floor, Main Building Gordon Street, Footscray

  • Oncology Day Ward -  Located on 2nd Floor, Main Building Gordon Street, Footscray

  • Oncology Hospital In The Home -

  • Operates 7 days- 24 hour Inpatient Unit.                     

  • Operates Monday to Friday  0800 - 1730

  • Operated 7 Days from Ward 2 East

 


LINKS TO SITES OF INTEREST

North and West Metropolitan Region Palliative Care Consortium

You can access the WCMICS web site by going to http://www.wcmics.org

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Western Health Integrated Cancer Services 

 Western Health is a member of the Western Central Melbourne Integrated Cancer Services (WCMICS), which is one of three metropolitan, and five regional ICS established by the DHS to implement the Cancer Services Framework across Victoria.

The Framework focuses on delivering the right treatment and support to patients as early as possible and throughout their cancer.

Multidisciplinary Care

As part of the State-wide implementation of the Cancer Services Framework under the Multidisciplinary Care Project, the Victorian Department of Human Services has developed a Multidisciplinary meeting toolkit.  The toolkit was developed to assist the development of multidisciplinary teams in meeting the Patient Management Frameworks set out for each tumour stream. 

Western Health currently conducts 7 Multidisciplinary Team Meetings these are:-

 

Tumour Group Lead Clinician  Meeting Frequency
Breast Ms Meron Pitcher Fortnightly
Colorectal  Mr Stephen McLauchlin Weekly
Upper Gastro Intestinal Professor Steven Chan Weekly
Head & Neck Dr Sorway Chan Fortnightly
Lung Dr David Cunnington Monthly
Gynaecology Mr Robert Rome Fortnightly
Genito Urinary Mr Douglas Travis Monthly


To access Patient Management Frameworks please select

http://www.health.vic.gov.au/cancer.pmfsnew.htm

WCMICS has funded Hospital Administrative Co-ordinators (HAC'S) at each site.  the roles of the HAC's are to assist and support cancer services in implementing the Cancer Services Frameworks at service delivery and patient care level. 

The staff member's for Western Health, located at Western Hospital - Footscray are:

                     Angelina Cutri   8345-6976  available Tuesdays

                   Cathy Hammond  8345 7189 available Wednesday & Fridays

The WCMICS comprises of :-  

  • Melbourne Health
  • Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
  • Royal Women's Hospital
  • St Vincent's Health Melbourne
  • Western Health
  • Werribee Mercy Hospital
  • The Royal Children's Hospital    

LOCAL COLLABORATING TUMOUR GROUPS have been formed across the WCMICS.  These groups meet every quarter via videoconference.       The key objectives of these groups include: -                                                    

  1. Gaining an understanding of the scope and pattern of cancer across the WCMICS.
  2. Reviewing the Patient Management Frameworks (PMFs) against current practice to identify issues and gaps, and recommend projects for cancer care development across the WCMICS.
  3. Addressing other issues as identified and agreed upon by the individual tumour group.