Useful Management Information

  • Medical management
    • Manage acute episodes
    • Analgesia
    • Antibiotics
    • Fluids
    • Throat gargle
    • Rest
    • Consider monospot test for glandular fever

Minimum Referral Criteria

Does your patient meet the minimum referral criteria?
Category 1 (appointment within 30 calendar days)
  • No category 1 criteria
Category 2 (appointment within 90 calendar days)
  • No category 2 criteria
Category 3 (appointment within 365 calendar days)
  • Chronic or recurrent infection with fever/malaise and decreased PO intake and any of the following:
    • 4 or more episodes in the last 12 months
    • 6 or more episodes in the last 24 months
    • sleep apnoea due to tonsillar
    • hypertrophy
    • tonsillar concretions with halitosis
    • absent from work/university/college for 4 weeks in a year

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

  • The number and timeframe of previous episodes
  • The degree of systemic upset
  • Previous antibiotic prescriptions
  • Details of previous treatment (including systemic and topical medications prescribed) including the course and outcome of the treatment
  • Please advise if taking any anticoagulant medication, including aspirin and fish oil, and any family history of coagulation disorder in referral

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

  • No additional information
Last updated 20 August 2021

Send Referrals To

Smart Referrals

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Gold Coast Health Service District

Internal Referrals

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 Jim Hallam

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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