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Outback Eye Service
How we can help you
Our specialist team provide care for adults and children living in rural areas who have eye problems. We provide assessment, diagnosis, management and treatment, including surgery.
We visit five rural locations: Bourke Hospital, Brewarrina Hospital, Cobar Hospital, Lightning Ridge Hospital, Walgett Hospital.
Manager
Dr Michael Hennessy
Office opening hours
Monday - Friday 8.00am - 4.30pm
Our office is located
Department of Ophthalmology, Level 2, South Wing, Edmund Blacket Building, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, NSW
Our services are provided in these locations
Bourke Hospital, Brewarrina Hospital, Cobar Hospital, Lightning Ridge Hospital, Walgett Hospital.
Our services include:
- Specialist doctor (Ophthalmologist) clinic appointments for adults and children
- Cataract surgery - A cataract causes your vision to become cloudy. Cataract surgery removes the lens of your eye and, in most cases, replace it with an artificial lens so your vision is clear.
- Oculoplastics surgery - Surgical procedures around the eye socket, eyelid, tear ducts and your face. It includes reconstruction of the eye and surrounding structures, and is used to treat a range of problems, including droopy eyelids, tumours (e.g. melanomas), and blocked tear ducts.
- Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) and retinal diagnostic testing - We use diagnostic equipment to take scans of your eye. This helps us examine the health of your eye.
- Visual Field Assessments - Measures how far your eye sees in any direction without moving and how sensitive your vision is in different parts of your eye.
You will need a completed referral form from your local general practitioner (GP) or your specialist to use our services. If you need to make an appointment, please ask your doctor to email or fax us your referral form with any blood and imaging results. Please fax referrals to: 02 9382 2690 or email: WNSWLHD-OESReferrals@health.nsw.gov.au
We will review your referral and send you a letter in the mail with your appointment details.
Usual wait times may vary. An urgent referral will be seen within 4 weeks. A non-urgent referral may be seen in up to 12 months.
If you need to change or cancel your appointment, telephone 0418 322 705 or 0419 111 687.
Please let us know if you need an interpreter. You can contact us telephoning the Translating and Interpreting Service (TIS) on 131 450. Tell the operator what language you speak and then ask the interpreter to set up a telephone conversation between you, an interpreter, and the healthcare professional you want to speak with.
Outback Eye Service
How we can help you
Our specialist team provide care for adults and children living in rural areas who have eye problems. We provide assessment, diagnosis, management and treatment, including surgery.
We visit five rural locations: Bourke Hospital, Brewarrina Hospital, Cobar Hospital, Lightning Ridge Hospital, Walgett Hospital.
Manager
Dr Michael Hennessy
Office opening hours
Monday - Friday 8.00am - 4.30pm
Our office is located
Department of Ophthalmology, Level 2, South Wing, Edmund Blacket Building, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, NSW
Our services are provided in these locations
Bourke Hospital, Brewarrina Hospital, Cobar Hospital, Lightning Ridge Hospital, Walgett Hospital.
Our services include:
- Specialist doctor (Ophthalmologist) clinic appointments for adults and children
- Cataract surgery - A cataract causes your vision to become cloudy. Cataract surgery removes the lens of your eye and, in most cases, replace it with an artificial lens so your vision is clear.
- Oculoplastics surgery - Surgical procedures around the eye socket, eyelid, tear ducts and your face. It includes reconstruction of the eye and surrounding structures, and is used to treat a range of problems, including droopy eyelids, tumours (e.g. melanomas), and blocked tear ducts.
- Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) and retinal diagnostic testing - We use diagnostic equipment to take scans of your eye. This helps us examine the health of your eye.
- Visual Field Assessments - Measures how far your eye sees in any direction without moving and how sensitive your vision is in different parts of your eye.
You will need a completed referral form from your local general practitioner (GP) or your specialist to use our services. If you need to make an appointment, please ask your doctor to email or fax us your referral form with any blood and imaging results. Please fax referrals to: 02 9382 2690 or email: WNSWLHD-OESReferrals@health.nsw.gov.au
We will review your referral and send you a letter in the mail with your appointment details.
Usual wait times may vary. An urgent referral will be seen within 4 weeks. A non-urgent referral may be seen in up to 12 months.
If you need to change or cancel your appointment, telephone 0418 322 705 or 0419 111 687.
Please let us know if you need an interpreter. You can contact us telephoning the Translating and Interpreting Service (TIS) on 131 450. Tell the operator what language you speak and then ask the interpreter to set up a telephone conversation between you, an interpreter, and the healthcare professional you want to speak with.
Kidney Transplant Services - East Coast Renal Services
How we can help you
Our service helps you if you have advanced kidney disease and need a kidney transplant. A kidney transplant is a surgery to place a healthy kidney from a living or deceased person into a person whose kidney is no longer working properly.
We perform over 50 kidney transplants a year at Prince of Wales Hospital. Before and after the procedure people are cared for by their local Hospital either St George Hospital, Wollongong Hospital, Sydney Children’s Hospital or St Vincent’s Hospital.
Our services include:
- assessing whether a transplant is a suitable treatment for you
- assessing those who want to donate a kidney
- providing education to donors and recipients and their families
- biopsy and transplant pathology
- telephone or videoconference services
- yearly follow up of transplant recipients.
Our Transplant service is one of the oldest in Australia and performed the first kidney transplant in NSW on 5 August 1965 - this was only the second successful kidney transplant in Australia.
Director of East Coast Transplant Service
Dr Karen Keung
Contact a Renal Transplant Physician
Phone: 02 9382 4473
Contact a Transplant Coordinator
Phone: 0428 133 180
Opening hours
8:00am – 4:00pm Monday to Friday
How to find us
Kidney Care Centre, Level 3, Parkes Building, Prince of Wales Hospital (Building 7 on our campus map)
Information about how to get to our Randwick campus
Our transplant team includes doctors, nurses, social workers, pharmacists and a dietician. Our team will explain what kidney transplant options are available, what is involved in a kidney transplant and can help you decide what option is best for you.
Our specialists
|
Director of East Coast Transplant Service
|
Dr Karen Keung MB BS BSc(med) PhD FRACP |
|
Transplant Physician |
Dr Mangalee Fernando MB BS PhD FRACP |
|
Transplant Physician |
Dr Grant Luxton MB BS FRACP |
|
Transplant Physician |
Dr Kenneth Yong MB BS PhD FRACP |
| Transplant Physician |
Dr Sara Stoler MBBCh, FCP(SA) MMED, Cert Neph (SA) Phys, FRACP |
Our Transplant Coordinators
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Denise Lawrence |
Phone: 9382 4437 |
|
Hayley Pippard |
Phone: 9382 4443 |
Patients with chronic kidney disease are eligible for transplant assessment. There is a kidney transplant waiting list. Your Nephrologist will arrange for you to have many tests to see if a transplant is a suitable treatment for you.
When you get on the transplant list, you can expect to wait at least 3 – 5 years for a transplant. You will need to have regular tests and keep healthy during this time. You need to make sure we can contact you at all times.
Our doctor will call you and ask you questions. If the Doctor is happy to proceed they will ask you to go to Prince of Wales Hospital for your transplant. Most patients stay in hospital for 5 – 14 days. When you leave Hospital, you will have a schedule of regular follow up appointments which are essential to attend.
We are a teaching hospital and you may be asked to be involved in research or for a student to be present at your appointment. You have a right to say no. If you do so, this will not impact in any way on the services we will provide.
Please let us know if you need an interpreter. You can contact us telephoning the Translating and Interpreting Service (TIS) on 131 450. Tell the operator what language you speak and then ask the interpreter to set up a telephone conversation between you, an interpreter, and the healthcare professional you want to speak with.
Kidney Health Australia: https://kidney.org.au/resources/treatments-resource-library-1
Kidney Transplant Services - East Coast Renal Services
How we can help you
Our service helps you if you have advanced kidney disease and need a kidney transplant. A kidney transplant is a surgery to place a healthy kidney from a living or deceased person into a person whose kidney is no longer working properly.
We perform over 50 kidney transplants a year at Prince of Wales Hospital. Before and after the procedure people are cared for by their local Hospital either St George Hospital, Wollongong Hospital, Sydney Children’s Hospital or St Vincent’s Hospital.
Our services include:
- assessing whether a transplant is a suitable treatment for you
- assessing those who want to donate a kidney
- providing education to donors and recipients and their families
- biopsy and transplant pathology
- telephone or videoconference services
- yearly follow up of transplant recipients.
Our Transplant service is one of the oldest in Australia and performed the first kidney transplant in NSW on 5 August 1965 - this was only the second successful kidney transplant in Australia.
Director of East Coast Transplant Service
Dr Karen Keung
Contact a Renal Transplant Physician
Phone: 02 9382 4473
Contact a Transplant Coordinator
Phone: 0428 133 180
Opening hours
8:00am – 4:00pm Monday to Friday
How to find us
Kidney Care Centre, Level 3, Parkes Building, Prince of Wales Hospital (Building 7 on our campus map)
Information about how to get to our Randwick campus
Our transplant team includes doctors, nurses, social workers, pharmacists and a dietician. Our team will explain what kidney transplant options are available, what is involved in a kidney transplant and can help you decide what option is best for you.
Our specialists
|
Director of East Coast Transplant Service
|
Dr Karen Keung MB BS BSc(med) PhD FRACP |
|
Transplant Physician |
Dr Mangalee Fernando MB BS PhD FRACP |
|
Transplant Physician |
Dr Grant Luxton MB BS FRACP |
|
Transplant Physician |
Dr Kenneth Yong MB BS PhD FRACP |
| Transplant Physician |
Dr Sara Stoler MBBCh, FCP(SA) MMED, Cert Neph (SA) Phys, FRACP |
Our Transplant Coordinators
|
Denise Lawrence |
Phone: 9382 4437 |
|
Hayley Pippard |
Phone: 9382 4443 |
Patients with chronic kidney disease are eligible for transplant assessment. There is a kidney transplant waiting list. Your Nephrologist will arrange for you to have many tests to see if a transplant is a suitable treatment for you.
When you get on the transplant list, you can expect to wait at least 3 – 5 years for a transplant. You will need to have regular tests and keep healthy during this time. You need to make sure we can contact you at all times.
Our doctor will call you and ask you questions. If the Doctor is happy to proceed they will ask you to go to Prince of Wales Hospital for your transplant. Most patients stay in hospital for 5 – 14 days. When you leave Hospital, you will have a schedule of regular follow up appointments which are essential to attend.
We are a teaching hospital and you may be asked to be involved in research or for a student to be present at your appointment. You have a right to say no. If you do so, this will not impact in any way on the services we will provide.
Please let us know if you need an interpreter. You can contact us telephoning the Translating and Interpreting Service (TIS) on 131 450. Tell the operator what language you speak and then ask the interpreter to set up a telephone conversation between you, an interpreter, and the healthcare professional you want to speak with.
Kidney Health Australia: https://kidney.org.au/resources/treatments-resource-library-1
Heart Support Service
The Heart Support Service is a community-based nurse specialist team that coordinates with your GP and Cardiologist to support and manage your heart condition at home.
Who is eligible?
People who have a diagnosis of heart failure.
Patient Education
Simple steps for managing heart failure – English:
Heart Failure Action Plan:
Contact Details
Heart Support Service:
- Monday - Friday (07:30 - 16:00)
- Phone: 9113-3042
- Fax: 9113-1826
Heart Failure Clinic:
Clinic times:
Clinic appointments are available on Tuesday morning (09:00 - 12:00).
Phone: 9113-3172
Fax: 9113-1826
Booking:
Your local doctor (GP) needs to fax a referral letter to Cardiology Department. Our receptionist will contact you to arrange an appointment.
Location:
The Heart Failure Clinic is located in the Cardiology Department, Level 1, Clinical Services Building, St George Hospital.
Enter via Kensington St.
-33.966662, 151.134842
Pre-Admission Clinic
Frequently Asked Questions
Why do I need to attend the Pre-Admission Clinic?
As a patient, you are required to attend Pre-Admission Clinic to ensure you are fit enough for your intended surgery. During this appointment you will see an anaesthetic doctor, surgical doctor, nurse and other health workers. It is also a good opportunity to have any of your questions answered before your admission to hospital.
How do I get to the Pre-Admission Clinic?
We are located on level 3, opposite the central lifts.
What do I bring to this appointment?
- A recent health summary from your General Practitioner (GP), including a list of current medications and over the counter medications.
- Your Medicare card
- Recent X-Rays and scans relevant to your surgery
- Copies of the most recent letter/s from your specialist (for example: cardiologists, haematologists, respiratory, renal and endocrine)
- Your most recent blood test results (within 6 months)
- Copies of your investigation results. (for example your most recent cardiac echocardiogram, stress test or coronary angiogram).
- Details of any anaesthetic complications you are aware of and any allergy testing you may have completed.
- Any other significant investigation results or issues that you feel would help us manage your surgery better.
What happens if I do not bring all the information?
If we do not have all the necessary reports and information at your appointment, it may mean the doctors will need to delay your surgery or refer you to other specialists, depending on your type of surgery and your medical conditions.
Do I need to fast for this appointment?
Fasting is not required for this appointment.
What happens if I do not attend this appointment?
Failure to attend this could result in your surgery being delayed. Please call us on 9540 7611 if you need to change your appointment date.
Who do I call if I require any further information about this appointment?
Please contact the Admission officer at 9540 7611 if you have any questions.
What if English is not my first language?
Please inform the booking officer who can organise an interpreter. We do encourage a friend or relative who can speak English to accompany you to avoid any delay.
How long does the pre-admission visit take?
Depending on your surgery, you may be here for up to 2 to 6 hours. Please remember to bring some lunch especially if you are diabetic. There are cafeteria facilities available; however it is advisable to bring your own food if walking is difficult for you.
What if I need support after surgery?
Please let us know if you will require assistance following surgery. We will be pleased to refer you to a social worker or other services.
Can I have Telehealth?
Please let us know if you have special circumstances.
This will depend on your type of surgery and your medical conditions.
How do I contact the Pre-Admission Clinic?
Office hours: Monday – Friday 8:00am to 4:30pm
Telephone: 02 9540 7611.
Office hours: Monday – Friday 8:00am to 4:30pm
-34.0371613, 151.1147459
Surgery and PeriOperative
St George Hospital provides a multidisciplinary team of experts to guide, support and care for patients through both the elective and emergency surgical journeys.
Resources
Getting Ready for Surgery
- Hospital in the Home (HiTH) Pre-Operative Surgical Care
- "Fit for Surgery" (surgical preparation video)
- Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (videos)
- Quit smoking before surgery
- Patients' Guide to Anaesthesia
- What is an anaesthetic?
- Eating and drinking before surgery
Pain Relief Following Surgery
- Adjuvant Pain Medicines
- Patient Controlled Analgesia (PCA)
- Pain relieving medication
- Epidural Pain Relief - Patient Discharge Advice
What to Expect After Surgery
- Hospital in the Home (HiTH) Post Operative Surgical Care
- What to expect after Spinal surgery
- Neck Collar: Application & Care, Sitting Position
- Neck Collar: Application & Care, Lying Position with Head-Hold
- Neck Collar: Application & Care, Lying Position without Head-Hold
- Physiotherapy after Surgery
- Safety advice following anesthesia
Walking After Surgery:
- Walking after surgery - English
- Walking after surgery - Arabic
- Walking after surgery - Bengali
- Walking after surgery - Chinese Simplified
- Walking after surgery - Chinese Traditional
- Walking after surgery - Greek
- Walking after surgery - Italian
- Walking after surgery - Macedonian
- Walking after surgery - Nepali
- Walking after surgery - Russian
- Walking after surgery - Spanish
-33.9676303, 151.1334852
Surgery, Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine
This information is for you and your family if you are coming to our hospital for surgery. We want to help you feel confident about your surgery.
At Prince of Wales Hospital we perform these types of surgery:
- Cardiothoracic – heart and lung surgery
- Ophthalmology – eye surgery
- Orthopaedics – bone and joint surgery
- Plastic Surgery – repair or reconstruct skin or other body tissue
- Neurosurgery – nerve, spinal cord or brain surgery
- Vascular surgery – surgery on arteries or veins
- Urology – surgery on the urinary system including bladder and kidneys
- General surgery including: upper gastrointestinal tract, colorectal, oncology surgery
- Dental, oral and maxillofacial - teeth, jaw and face surgery
- Ear, nose and throat surgery.
The information below will help you plan and prepare for your surgery. We provide information on what to expect before, during and after your surgery.
How we can help you
Perioperative Unit
Phone:
02 9382 3847
Anaesthetic Pre Evaluation Clinic
Phone:
02 9382 3865
Surgery, Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine
This information is for you and your family if you are coming to our hospital for surgery. We want to help you feel confident about your surgery.
At Prince of Wales Hospital we perform these types of surgery:
- Cardiothoracic – heart and lung surgery
- Ophthalmology – eye surgery
- Orthopaedics – bone and joint surgery
- Plastic Surgery – repair or reconstruct skin or other body tissue
- Neurosurgery – nerve, spinal cord or brain surgery
- Vascular surgery – surgery on arteries or veins
- Urology – surgery on the urinary system including bladder and kidneys
- General surgery including: upper gastrointestinal tract, colorectal, oncology surgery
- Dental, oral and maxillofacial - teeth, jaw and face surgery
- Ear, nose and throat surgery.
The information below will help you plan and prepare for your surgery. We provide information on what to expect before, during and after your surgery.
How we can help you
Perioperative Unit
Phone:
02 9382 3847
Anaesthetic Pre Evaluation Clinic
Phone:
02 9382 3865
Surgery, Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine
This information is for you and your family if you are coming to our hospital for surgery. We want to help you feel confident about your surgery.
At Prince of Wales Hospital we perform these types of surgery:
- Cardiothoracic – heart and lung surgery
- Ophthalmology – eye surgery
- Orthopaedics – bone and joint surgery
- Plastic Surgery – repair or reconstruct skin or other body tissue
- Neurosurgery – nerve, spinal cord or brain surgery
- Vascular surgery – surgery on arteries or veins
- Urology – surgery on the urinary system including bladder and kidneys
- General surgery including: upper gastrointestinal tract, colorectal, oncology surgery
- Dental, oral and maxillofacial - teeth, jaw and face surgery
- Ear, nose and throat surgery.
The information below will help you plan and prepare for your surgery. We provide information on what to expect before, during and after your surgery.
How we can help you
Perioperative Unit
Phone:
02 9382 3847
Anaesthetic Pre Evaluation Clinic
Phone:
02 9382 3865