View Diabetes Services
Contact Information
- Phone: 9346 8102
- Fax: 9346 8498
OPH provides a service for insulin education, initiation and stabilisation. Care is coordinated by a credentialled Diabetes Nurse Educator with the authority and consent of the referring medical officer. An Endocrinologist is not available at OPH.
To refer please fax to 9346 8498. To speak with us please call 9346 8102.
We require the following information:
- Patient demographic data: name, address, telephone number.
- Relevant medical history and medications.
We welcome referrals from you and have 3 versions of referral templates available for your use:
- (Medical Director Template 7 Kb) Instructions for importing into Medical Director software.
- (DOC 363 Kb) Instructions for importing into other medical software.
- (PDF 344 Kb) For handwritten referrals.
This service complements other services within the North Metropolitan Health area in diabetes education and self management such as those listed below:
- North Metropolitan Population Health Program Community Based Diabetes Team (for Type 2 diabetes education). Ph: 9400 9595, Fax: 9400 9503
- Healthy @ Home Chronic Disease Team. Ph: 1300 855841
- Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital
- Princess Margaret Hospital (< 18 yrs age)
- King Edward Memorial Hospital (pregnancy related)
- Hollywood Hospital (for eligible Veterans' Affairs clients)
For more information on professional diabetes services/resources, see the Osborne General Practice Network area document (PDF 287 Kb).
Instructions for importing into the Medical Director software
In Medical Director, open Letter Writer, open Blank Template, select Import to import this document, select Save As to save this template, use the template by selecting it when you create a New Letter.
Instructions for importing into other software
We welcome use of this form or your own computer generated version. In view of the number of different software products available we are unable to provide specific templates for each product. However you may use the Word version to import the document into your own medical software. You will need to create the automated fields such as patient and doctor details.
Last modified: 28th May 2009.
