Gold Coast Health’s General Practice Liaison Unit is dedicated to improving communication between the hospital and general practice and developing new approaches to optimise the care of our mutual patients.

The GP Liaison Unit seeks to support you through representing the interests of General Practice at Gold Coast Health and provides a suite of resources including:

• HealthPathways
• Smart Referrals training and support
• Refer Your Patient website
• Secure Transfer Service Address Book
• Optimised discharge summary format
• Access to the Health Provider Portal
• Gold Coast Health News – An update for General Practice – subscribe here

The GP Advice Service, 1300 00 4242, is available from 8am to 4pm weekdays, to assist with access to non-urgent specialist outpatient advice or general service enquiries.

Urgent specialist advice is available via the GP Only Switchboard on 07 5687 0003.

GP Liaison Unit Team

• Dr Kate Johnston, Medical Director GP Partnerships & Engagement
• Karen Whitting, Program Manager GPLU
• Peter Northcott, Senior GP Engagement Officer
• Rhian Campbell, Senior GP Engagement Officer

HealthPathways Team

• Alyssia Berghammer, HealthPathways Coordinator
• Dr Scott Preston, GP Clinical Editor
• Dr Siobhan Jeffs, GP Clinical Editor