- Abortion & Contraception Service
- Clinical education & training
- Clinical resources
- For GPs
- Maternity services
- Medicines Information Service
- Neonatal care
- Patient information requests
- Patient support services
- Reproductive Services
- Violence & sexual assault
- Women’s Emergency Care
- Women’s health services
The Women's is Australia's oldest and most respected specialist hospital dedicated to improving the health of women and newborns.
We provide clinical expertise and leadership in maternity care, neonatology, gynaecology, oncology and mental health. A healthcare, research and teaching facility, the Women's fosters a patient-centred approach and provides leadership and advocacy to address health disadvantage and improve health outcomes for all women and babies.
The hospital delivers Electronic Discharge Summaries securely via the Telstra Health Argus Facility. If you subscribe to this service, discharge summaries will be automatically delivered to your medical practice software. We will continue to fax discharge summaries to those not using Argus.
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Abortion & Contraception Service
The Abortion and Contraception Service provides medical and surgical abortion, pregnancy options counselling and contraception counselling and services to eligible patients.
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Clinical education & training
The Women's offers a multi-disciplinary education and training program for health professionals and health care agencies.
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Clinical resources
The Women's provides a range of clinical resources and support for health professionals.
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For GPs
The Women’s values its relationship with General Practitioners and other health professionals who partner with us to provide high quality healthcare.
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Maternity services
At the Women’s, we encourage all women to be actively involved in their pregnancy, birth and postnatal care, and we encourage the involvement of your partner, support person and family.
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Medicines Information Service
The Medicine Information Service provides comprehensive, evidence-based medicines information for women, their healthcare providers and the general public.
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Neonatal care
The Women’s has one of Australia’s largest specialist neonatal services. Our intensive care and special care nurseries provide comprehensive care for unwell and/or premature babies.
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Patient information requests
The Royal Women's Hospital processes requests for patient information from a wide range of health care providers to support the continuum of patient care. Requests for more than three medical records are considered research requests.
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Patient support services
We offer a range of support services for Women's patients.
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Reproductive Services
Reproductive Services at the Women's includes Public Fertility Care and IVF, fertility preservation and endocrine and metabolic services.
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Violence & sexual assault
The Women’s provides services to victim/survivors of both recent (within the past two weeks) and past sexual assault through the Centre Against Sexual Assault (CASA) House and the Sexual Assault Crisis Line.
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Women’s Emergency Care
We provide direct clinical primary care for women presenting with acute obstetric and gynaecological problems and newborns with a range of neonatal conditions. The department is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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Women’s health services
The Women's provides comprehensive women's health clinics and services.
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Disclaimer
The clinical information and Clinical Guidelines available on this Website are intended to provide guidance to health care professionals, based on a thorough evaluation of research evidence, on the practical assessment and management of specific clinical issues or situations. The Guidelines allow some flexibility on the part of the health care professional based on the needs of the specific patient for whom they are caring. Whilst appreciable care has been taken in the preparation of Clinical Guidelines, the Women's provides these as a service only and does not warrant the accuracy of these Guidelines. Any representation implied or expressed concerning the efficacy, appropriateness or suitability of any treatment or product is expressly negated. In view of the possibility of human error and / or advances in medical knowledge, the Women's cannot and does not warrant that the information contained in the Guidelines is in every respect accurate or complete. Accordingly, the Women's will not be held responsible or liable for any errors or omissions that may be found in any of the information on this Website. You are encouraged to consult other sources in order to confirm the information contained in any of the Guidelines and, in the event that medical treatment is required, to take professional, expert advice from a legally qualified and appropriately experienced medical practitioner. For practitioners outside the Women’s this material is made available in good faith as a resource for use by health professionals to draw on in developing their own protocols, guided by published medical evidence. In doing so, practitioners should themselves be familiar with the literature and make their own interpretations of it. NOTE: Care should be taken when printing any Clinical Guideline from this Website. Updates to these guidelines will take place as necessary. It is therefore advised that regular visits to this Website will be needed to access the most current version of these guidelines.