Outpatients
Where clinically appropriate, outpatient appointments are being provided virtually via telephone or video call. Read more below in 'Virtual outpatient appointments'.
Depending on your clinical condition, you may have a combination of in-person and virtual appointments. The hospital will contact you to advise of any change to your appointment
The location section of your appointment letter details whether your appointment will be virtual or in person at the hospital. If the appointment location listed is an outpatient clinic, you need to attend the hospital for your appointment.
Virtual outpatient appointments
Where practical, some outpatient appointments are now being delivered by telephone or video call rather than onsite within the hospital.
There are a range of benefits with virtual appointments including not having to travel to hospital and associated travel costs, however not all appointments are suitable to be done virtually. Your clinician will determine if it is appropriate, and you may have a combination of face-to-face and virtual appointments depending on your clinical condition.
Virtual appointments are those conducted by:
- telephone
- video call at home or with your GP
- Avaya
- telehealth at another WA Health site.
For telephone appointments
Your clinician will call you:
- between 8am and 12noon for a morning appointment, or
- between 1pm and 5pm for an afternoon appointment.
If you have a scheduled telephone appointment, you will receive a call from +61 8 6152 0000 or, an unknown number. If you miss our call/s, contact the number on your appointment letter/SMS to reschedule.
For video appointments
You will receive a link via SMS (text message) or email before your appointment.
Click on that link 10 minutes before your appointment to join the clinic’s virtual waiting area.
If you would like to have your appointment virtually
Please:
- discuss with your GP or referring specialist
- discuss with your clinician during your appointment
- talk to your clinic clerk
- contact FSH Outpatient Enquiries on 6152 5100.
How to manage your appointment
Use the Manage My Care app
The Manage My Care app gives you and those you care for more access to outpatient appointment and referral information than ever before at a number of metropolitan hospitals including Fiona Stanley Hospital.
Key features include:
- easily see your outpatient appointments and referrals 24/7
- update your contact details (e.g. address and phone numbers)
- request to reschedule, confirm or cancel upcoming outpatient appointments for select specialties
- access information about your appointment and hospital visit.
Create a Manage My Care account (Healthy WA).
If you can't use the Manage My Care app
Change an appointment
If you are unable to attend your appointment, follow the directions outlined in your appointment letter or SMS reminder or phone:
Can’t make your appointment?
If you can’t make it to your scheduled appointment for whatever reason, it’s important to let us know as soon as possible.
The hospital misses out on funding for every missed appointment. It also means other people have to wait longer for an appointment
To let us know you can’t make it to your appointment, you can call either:
- Outpatient Direct on 1300 855 275, or
- number in your appointment letter or SMS.
Update your contact details
Let us know if any of your contact details have changed (address, telephone number) to make sure you receive our communications by:
About our outpatient clinics
Outpatient clinics and services provide health care to patients who do not require admission to hospital.
These services allow for examination or treatment as well as the provision of care for patients with complex or chronic conditions who benefit from a multidisciplinary approach.
Services are provided by a range of healthcare professionals including medical, nursing and midwifery, and allied health staff. You may see these healthcare professionals together or separately depending on your needs. We may also need to refer you to other hospital services, including the:
Referrals and appointments
An outpatient appointment is made after your General Practitioner (GP) or specialist refers you for treatment, or if you need further treatment after being discharged from hospital.
Information about your outpatient clinic appointment will be sent to you by letter. Most clinics also send an SMS reminder to your mobile phone in the week before your appointment.
Sometimes the hospital will contact you by phone. This is usually when your appointment is in less than 7 days.
Please do not attend your outpatient appointment if you have any of the following symptoms:
- flu or COVID-19 like symptoms, such as fever, cough or a sore throat
- sudden onset of vomiting and diarrhoea
- generalised unexplained rash.
You should visit your GP and reschedule your clinic appointment.
If your condition gets worse before your appointment
Please see your General Practitioner (GP) if your condition gets worse before your specialist appointment or in between appointments.
Your GP will be able to contact medical staff at the hospital for advice or can help you decide if you should go to the emergency department.
What should I bring?
Please bring:
- your outpatient letter – please hand this to the receptionist
- any relevant x-rays or laboratory results
- any aids you may require (spectacles, hearing aids etc)
- Medicare card
- Healthcare card
- Repatriation benefits card
- immunisation records
- a list of any questions you want to ask the specialist.
For paediatric patients, the primary caregiver (parent or legal guardian only) must attend the appointment
Patients are also advised that wait times for outpatient appointments can vary.
Getting here
Read about ways to travel to and across our hospital.
Voluntary transport
At your first appointment, ask your healthcare professional about voluntary transport services. You can also phone the Helpdesk on 6152 2222 and ask to speak with the Outpatient Transport Supervisor.
Outpatient clinics and locations
Your appointment letter will note the location of your appointment, for example Clinic 5 Outpatients Ground Floor Main Hospital, Breast Clinic Level 1 Main Hospital.
Please enter the hospital via the main entrance where you will be asked some COVID-19 screening questions.
Staff and volunteers located at Main Reception and Main Outpatients reception are available to assist with directions.
Outpatient clinics and their locations are listed below.
Outpatient clinics 1-8, ground floor (OutPts, G)
If your letter directs you to Clinic 1-8 OutPts, G, you should enter the hospital via the main entry off Robin Warren Drive and follow the signs to the outpatient clinic reception desk. Coming from the main entrance it is the second desk on the right.
Education and State Rehabilitation Service clinics
If your letter directs you to the following clinics, please visit the reception desk located in the following buildings and floors:
- Education clinic: Education building, ground floor
- State Rehab G clinic: Rehabilitation building, ground floor
- State Rehab L1 clinic: Rehabilitation building, level 1
- State Rehab L2 clinic: Rehabilitation building, level 2
- State Rehab, Hydro, LG (Hydrotherapy) clinic: Rehabilitation building, lower ground floor
Other outpatient (OutPts) clinics
If your letter directs you to the following clinics, please visit the reception desk located in the following floors of the main hospital:
- Clinic 9a, OutPts, G: Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation Unit, located on the ground floor
- Clinic 9b, OutPts, G: Advanced Lung Disease and Lung Transplant Unit, located on the ground floor
- Allied Health 1 and 2: located on the ground floor
- Breast: Breast Assessment Clinic, located on level 1
- Burns: Burns Outpatients, located on level 4
- Cancer Centre: located on the ground floor
- Cardiology: Cardiology Outpatients, located on level 1
- Dialysis: located on the ground floor
- DMP: Day Medical Procedures, located on the ground floor
- Endoscopy: Endoscopy Suite, located on level 1
- H and H: Haemophilia and Haemostasis centre, located on level 1
- Home Services: located on the ground floor
- Hyperbaric Unit: located on the lower ground floor
- MFAU: Maternal Fetal Assessment Unit, located on level 3
- Neurophysiology: Neurophysiology Outpatients, located on level 6
- Sleep Centre: located on level 5
Outpatient Pharmacy
The Outpatient Pharmacy dispenses specialised medications for patients who attend an outpatient clinic.
Read more about the Outpatient Pharmacy, including how during COVID-19 patients may request non-Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) and/or highly specialised medication be couriered to their nominated address.
About electronic prescriptions
Please note the Outpatient Pharmacy is currently unable to accept and dispense electronic prescriptions – these can only be dispensed at a community pharmacy. Read more about electronic prescriptions below.
About electronic prescriptions
Fiona Stanley Hospital outpatients can now choose if they wish to receive a secure electronic prescription rather than the standard paper prescription.
An electronic prescription can be used to obtain most medicines from your local community pharmacy.
If you want to use an electronic prescription, you doctor can either send a QR code token:
- to you via SMS or email, which you take to your community pharmacy to collect your medication
- to your Active Script List (external site) – if you have created one – which your community pharmacist can access directly once you show appropriate identification.
About 90 per cent of community pharmacies are already registered to dispense electronic prescriptions.
Public hospital pharmacies do not dispense electronic prescriptions at this time.
Learn more about electronic prescriptions (external site).
Repeat prescriptions
If you have repeat prescriptions, you will receive a new QR code token in an SMS or email when you get your medicine from your community pharmacy.
Lost or missing electronic prescriptions
Please phone the Helpdesk on 6152 2222 and ask to be connected to the outpatient clinic you attended.
Outpatient audit
SMHS continuously reviews and audits the outpatient waitlists for first appointments.
We may contact you via SMS or letter to ask if you still need an appointment. This helps provide an accurate picture of the number of referred patients awaiting their first outpatient appointment.
Please follow the prompts on the SMS, return your letter in the pre-paid envelope or contact us on the number provided in the notification.
Contact us
Call our Helpdesk on 6152 2222 for all queries.
Location
Outpatient clinics are located throughout the hospital with the majority located in the main hospital building.
See Outpatient clinics and locations (left) for more information.
The main entrance to the hospital is accessed off Robin Warren Drive.
Opening hours
Outpatient clinics are generally open from Monday to Friday between 8am and 5pm.
Morning clinics: 8am – 12pm
Afternoon clinics: 1pm– 5pm
Additional clinic hours
A midwifery led antenatal clinic will be held after hours. Details will be included in your outpatient letter.
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