Acute consultation services

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Acute palliative care consultation services provide specialist supportive and palliative care management for anyone with a life limiting illness. This may include complex symptom management, psychosocial support, difficulties around advanced care planning or support during end-of-life care.

Acute palliative care consultation services are provided at:

Hornsby, Royal North Shore and Ryde Hospitals. These are staffed by NSLHD and HammondCare clinicians.
Northern Beaches Hospital. These are staffed by HammondCare clinicians.

Eligibility and referrals

All referrals are made within the medical record via an eMR consult request.
Referrals can also be made via a phone call to the acute palliative care consultation team after an eMR request has been placed.
To refer patients to Northern Beaches Hospital, contact the Northern Beaches team via the switchboard number (see contact details) to
discuss the referral.

Contact details

Royal North Shore Hospital

Switchboard 02 9926 7111

Ryde Hospital

Switchboard 02 9858 7888

Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital

Switchboard 02 9477 9123

Northern Beaches Hospital

Switchboard 02 9105 5000

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