Western Hospital
Telephone: 8345 6393 (GPs only)
Facsimile: 8345 6343
Clinical Director: Dr Michael Bryant
Location: Eleanor Street, Footscray
Hours: 24 hours
Services offered:
All adult emergencies
How to Refer
We recommend that GPs refer by telephone, as this is
more reliable than fax transmission. We will require details
including
- your name and contact details
- the patient's name, date of birth, address, past
medical history, current medications, the current
problem and any relevant treatment or investigations.
If you do send a fax, please mark the fax as 'Emergency Referral'.
Where there is doubt about the appropriateness of the
Emergency Department referral or if urgent advice is sought,
the duty emergency physician or registrar can be contacted
by telephoning 8345 6393.
For subacute orthopaedic and plastics cases that are not time
critical, we recommend that the GP contacts the relevant
registrar and arranges for the patient to be reviewed. This
will save the patient waiting many hours in the ED.
Please provide a fax number to allow us to provide prompt
feedback to you.
The Williamstown Hospital
Telephone: 9393 0101 or 9393 0150
Facsimile: 9393 0219
Director: Dr Sheila Bryan
Hours: 8.00am - 11.00pm daily
(For emergencies outside the opening hours, patients
should be referred directly to Western or Sunshine hospitals)
Services offered:
Adult urgent care.
(The department is not appropriate for time critical
emergency or major trauma).
How to refer:
We recommend that GPs refer by telephone, as this is more
reliable than fax transmission. We will require details including
your name and contact details, the patient's name, date of birth,
address, past medical history, current medications, the current problem and any relevant treatment or investigations. If you do
send a fax, please mark the fax as 'Emergency Referral'.
Where there is doubt about the appropriateness of an Emergency Department referral or if urgent assistance is sought, the duty emergency physician or registrar can be contacted on 9393 0101.
For example, some subspecialty services are not available at Williamstown and if the patient is time-critical it may be useful to discuss the patient with the senior ED doctor before sending the patient.