Referral instructions and templates

How to refer to Mercy Health

Specialist clinic referrals are encouraged to be send via HealthLink. For more information and fact sheets please visit the Mercy Health HealthLink eReferral Information page.

Referrals to Mercy Health’s outpatient clinics will be triaged against clinical information from the Statewide Referral Criteria and guidelines in HealthPathways. Referrals that do not meet the criteria will be rejected.

Mercy Health recommends clinicians to access HealthPathways Melbourne for guidance in assessing, managing and referring for patient conditions (login required). HealthPathways Melbourne provides clinicians with a single website to access clinical and referral pathways, and resources. Pathways are created by local GPs, working in partnership with specialists, nurses, allied health and other health professionals.

Referral forms and templates

Please delete old versions of the Mercy Health referral forms from your software and desktop and discard any old paper versions and replace them with the use of HealthLink eReferrals or with relevant forms below.

Werribee Mercy Hospital

Outpatient Clinics

Palliative Care S.M.A.R.T. Clinic 

Maternity

Medical Day Stay Waitlist

Health Independence Program

Mercy Hospital for Women

Maternity

Outpatients

Mercy Palliative Care

Mercy Mental Health Crisis Service

Services provided across south-west metro area of Melbourne include:

  • ACIS – Acute Community Intervention Services (formerly Catt) – Hoppers Crossing. Providing services to the cities of Maribyrnong, Hobson’s Bay & Wyndham.
  • EMHS in Emergency Departments (formerly ECATT) – Werribee Mercy Hospital
  • EMHS in Emergency Departments (formerly ECATT) – Footscray Hospital
  • WPACER – Westgate Police and Clinician Emergency Response. WPACER offers an emergency response to situations where someone maybe experiencing a level of mental distress in the community.

Referrals to all of these services is through the 24/7 mental health triage line: 1300 657 259

 

Contacts

HealthPathways Melbourne

  • Email address: [email protected]
  • Website: HealthPathways Melbourne
  • About:

    HealthPathways Melbourne provides clinicians with a single website to access clinical and referral pathways, and resources. Pathways are created by local GPs, working in partnership with specialists, nurses, allied health and other health professionals.

    Mercy Health recommends clinicians to access HealthPathways Melbourne for guidance in assessing, managing and referring for patient conditions (login required).

    Referrals to outpatient clinics at Mercy Health will be triaged against clinical information and investigations based on these guidelines.

    Referrals that do not meet the required clinical information and investigations will not be accepted.

    HealthPathways Melbourne is available for free to health professionals working in the North Western Melbourne and Eastern Melbourne Primary Health Network catchments.

    Email HealthPathways to request access or if you need to confirm your username and password.

Healthlink SmartForm eReferrals

  • Website: au.healthlink.net/support
  • About:

    HealthLink is a secure digital platform for sending referrals directly from your GP practice software (Best Practice, Genie, Medical Director and MedTech Evolution).

    Practices without conformant software can register for a HealthLink Portal licence by completing the online registration form and noting in the comments/message field that you would like to use the SmartForms, then selecting the two checkboxes – (1) Receive Electronic Correspondence (free of charge) and (3) Send Electronic Smart Forms (My Aged Care, Transport for NSW, Monash Health etc).

    Once HealthLink receives your completed registration application, this will be processed and the portal details will be forwarded to you.

     

    eReferral Support Contact Information

    • For GPs in the Eastern Melbourne Primary Healthcare Network region wanting to enable eReferrals (HealthLink Smartforms), please contact [email protected]or if urgent (03) 9046 0300.
    • For GPs in the North Western Melbourne Primary Healthcare Network region wanting to enable eReferrals (HealthLink Smartforms), please contact HealthLink via phone: 1800 125 036 or email [email protected]
    • For issues with HealthLink SmartForms, or to have this solution enabled within your clinical software system, please contact HealthLink on 1800 125 036 or [email protected].

     

Statewide Referral Criteria for Specialist Clinics - Victoria

  • Website: Statewide Referral Criteria
  • About:

    The Department of Health and Human Services has developed statewide referral criteria to assist GPs and clinicians referring patients to specialist clinics. These referral criteria have been developed to improve access to specialist clinics in public hospitals by improving the quality and appropriateness of referrals.

Referral contact details

A quick listing page for our most commonly used referral contact details. To refer a patient, please complete an eReferral via HealthLink SmartForms or alternatively send a fax to the relevant area, service or specialist clinic.

Referral contact details

HealthLink, eReferral Information

Learn more Mercy Health’s preferred referral method for its Outpatient Specialist Clinics is via eReferrals from HealthLink SmartForms including contacts and FAQ sheets.

HealthLink, eReferral Information

Minimum referral requirements

The non-admitted specialist services access policy advises that referrers are responsible for including the minimum referral content required for all referrals. Learn more about the mandatory information required for a referral request to be accepted and clinically prioritised.

Minimum referral requirements