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GP News is our electronic newsletter for General Practitioners and Shared Maternity Care Affiliates.

 

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The Women’s values its relationship with General Practitioners and other health professionals who partner with us to provide high quality healthcare.

We encourage GPs and other health professionals to refer eligible patients to the Women’s for maternity, women’s health, gynaecological, and other healthcare.

For general information on referrals, please see the Referrals page.

Women’s Health and Gynaecology referrals

The Women’s is a specialist facility serving women in its local area as well as those from across Victoria with complex gynaecological issues and women's health needs.

Gynaecology issues include problems such as period (menstrual) pain, heavy menstrual bleeding, endometriosis, fibroids, pelvic pain, infertility, or pelvic floor problems causing incontinence or prolapse, and female genital cutting. 

For more information about our services see, our Gynaecology page. For referral information, see the Women's Health and Gynaecology referrals page.

Maternity referrals

The Victorian public maternity system is designed to make sure that all women get the right care, in the right place, at the right time. This means, women who have uncomplicated pregnancies are cared for in their local maternity hospital. Women with complicated pregnancies need to attend a tertiary (specialist) hospital for their pregnancy care (the Women’s, Monash Health, Mercy Hospital for Women, and Joan Kirner Women’s and Children’s Hospital).

The Women’s prioritises pregnancy care for:

  • Women who live in our local area (i.e. the Women’s is their closest maternity hospital)
  • Women from across Victoria who require specialist care for a complicated pregnancy.

We recommend women with a low-risk pregnancy participate in the Shared Maternity Care program. A shared care provider will monitor and care for the woman during her pregnancy and the woman will then attend hospital for labour and birth. The Women’s provides support our Shared Maternity Care GPs, obstetricians and midwives throughout the provision of care. 

For more information, see the Maternity referrals page and the Shared Maternity Care page.

Keeping up-to-date

To stay up-to-date on essential information for health professionals, please subscribe to GP News (our quarterly e-newsletter for GPs and referring practitioners).

National Health Services Directory

The Women's uses the National Human Services Directory (NHSD) to send outpatient and discharge letters to GPs, specialists, and their registered clinics.

Please contact the NHSD directly if your service is not listed with the NHSD or if your GP or practice details have changed.

The NHSD is a government-supported, comprehensive listing of health and social services which include GPs, private specialists, hospitals and allied health practitioners.

GPs and the general public can use the directory to search for services according to area or service type. The consumer face of the NHSD is linked to the Health Direct/Better Health Channel website.

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.