Useful Management Information

  • Scarring of minor or cosmetic nature is generally excluded

Minimum Referral Criteria

Does your patient meet the minimum referral criteria?
Category 1 (appointment within 30 calendar days)
  • Severe contracture or deformity causing severe pain, or threatening vision or joint function
Category 2 (appointment within 90 calendar days)
  • Moderate contracture or deformity that is at risk of worsening
  • Hypertrophic or keloid scars causing severe symptoms and functional impairment
Category 3 (appointment within 365 calendar days)
  • Stable contracture or deformity and failed conservative scar management

If your patient does not meet the minimum referral criteria

  • Assessment and management information may be found on a range of conditions at HealthPathways
  • 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

  • Medical management to date
  • History of anticoagulant therapy
  • Smoking status

Additional Referral Information

  • Photograph – with patient’s consent, where secure image transfer, identification and storage is possible
Last updated 18 October 2021

Send Referrals To

Smart Referrals

Preferred Method
About Smart Referrals

Secure Web Transfer

Send to: Gold Coast Health Service District

Internal Referrals

Fax

(07) 5687 4497

Post

Enquiries

1300 559 083

Related HealthPathways

No directly related pathways found

Service Availability

Dr Raja Sawhney
Medical Director Plastics and Reconstructive Surgery

Facilities

Gold Coast University 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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