General Medicine

General Medicine or Internal Medicine is branch of medicine that deals with the diagnosis and nonsurgical treatment of diseases of the internal organs. Here you will find the causes, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of a huge range of disorders affecting every part of the body.

General Medicine Services are provided at the following hospitals:

• Bowral
• Campbelltown
• Fairfield

Currently the models of care in General Medicine vary across the facilities. The hospitals are working towards standardising the model of care, with key elements including:

• Development of acute short stay medicine as a variant of general medicine with a view to discharge or transfer to specialty teams within 48 hours
  
  
• Increasing focus on service provision in alternative settings to inpatient wards e.g. short stay ED, ambulatory care, hospital in the home, day hospital
  
  
• Increased use of transitional care settings for lower acuity patients where the only requirement is for nursing care from the start of the admission
  
  
• Increasing focus on outpatient and ambulatory settings e.g. acute assessment clinics, rapid discharge clinics; reducing hospital admissions and facilitating early discharge
  
  
• Increasing use of endoscopic diagnostic investigation
  
  
• Potential for outreach visitation to RACF, this could be nursing or nurse practitioner led
  
  
• At the smaller hospitals a move to 24hr junior medical staff cover

Contact

Dr Garry Helprin
13-15 Moore St Liverpool 2100
Ph: (02) 9600 9100
Fax: (02) 9600 9260