Emergency & urgent care
Senior Emergency Doctors and emergency specialists assess and treat urgent illness and injury that is not life threatening. For life-threatening emergencies, call 000.
- A triage nurse assesses you on arrival, using the Australian Triage Scale
- You're then seen by a Senior Emergency Doctor or emergency specialist
- If you are unstable, we stabilise you here, then transfer you by ambulance to an appropriate nearby hospital
- Direct admission to a nearby private hospital is possible, depending on bed availability, private health insurance approval and your condition being stable
- Imaging on site, provided by Imaging Specialists, an independent company, and pathology collected on site