Useful Management Information

  • No day or night symptoms
  • Minimal or no need for beta agonist treatment (less than 2 times per week)
  • No exacerbations
  • No limitations on physical activity
  • Minimal side effects of treatment

Clinician resources

Patient resources

Minimum Referral Criteria

Does your patient meet the minimum referral criteria?
Category 1 (appointment within 30 calendar days)
  • History of life threatening asthma in the past 12 months requiring ventilation or ICU admission
  • Unstable asthma with consistent FEV1 < 60% predicted
  • Asthma caused or exacerbated by workplace exposure where patient is unable to work as a result
Category 2 (appointment within 90 calendar days)
  • Inadequate asthma control as defined in Other useful information despite optimal treatment
  • Asthma related hospital admission/s in the last 3 months
  • Need for oral corticosteroids on more than 1 occasion in the last year
  • Asthma with frequent after-hours attendance (ED or after-hours GP) despite optimal treatment
  • Asthma caused or exacerbated by workplace exposure where patient is still able to work as a result
Category 3 (appointment within 365 calendar days)
  • Uncertainty about diagnosis
  • Asthma education where this cannot be provided in the community
  • If the patient does not meet the criteria for referral but the referring practitioner believes the patient requires specialist review, a clinical override may be requested:
    • Please explain why (e.g. warning signs or symptoms, clinical modifiers, uncertain about diagnosis, etc.)
  • Please note that your referral may not be accepted or may be redirected to another service.

Essential Referral Information

  • Approximate age at diagnosis
  • Duration and severity of symptoms (breathlessness, chest tightness, wheezing and cough)
  • Frequency of exacerbations
  • Management including:
    • current medications (including complete list of all patient’s medications)
    • previously tried respiratory medications
  • Oral prednisolone use
  • Previous hospitalisations for asthma
  • Allergies
  • Spirometry (if available)

If a specific test result is unable to be obtained due to access, financial, religious, cultural or consent reasons a Clinical Override may be requested. This reason must be clearly articulated in the body of the referral.

Additional Referral Information

  • Allergy testing results
  • Triggers
  • Assessment of adherence to treatment
  • Smoking status
  • FBC
  • Chest X-Ray
  • Comorbid conditions
Last updated 1 March 2024

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Send to: Gold Coast Health Service District

Internal Referrals

Respiratory (E-Blueslips)
Sleep Clinic Adult (E-Blueslips)

Fax

(07) 5687 4497

Post

Booking and Referral Centre
Gold Coast University Hospital
1 Hospital Boulevard
Southport QLD 4215

Enquiries

1300 559 083

Related HealthPathways

No directly related pathways found

Service Availability

Dr Maninder Singh
Medical Director Respiratory and Sleep Medicine

Facilities

Gold Coast University Hospital
Robina Hospital

If you would like to send a named referral, please address it to the specialist listed above, who will allocate a suitably qualified specialist to see the patient. Alternatively, you can view a full list of our specialists.

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