Endoscopy Direct Access Clinic
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Useful Information
About our services
The gastroenterology group at Mater Private offers direct access to a dedicated consultant-led endoscopy service.
Service features
- Consultant triage - referrals triaged within 24 hours
- Appointments - organised directly with patient within two working days
- Reports to referring doctor - verbal communication of urgent results and written reports sent within 24 hours
- Results and management plan - discussed with patient on day of procedure
- Urgent patients - prioritised and offered next available appointment
- Complex patients - seen in rooms for initial review with consultant
Referral criteria
Suitable patients - direct access
- New upper GI symptoms
- Suspected GI bleed (stable)
- Suspected malabsorption syndrome
- Diarrhoea
- Rectal bleeding
- Altered bowel habit
- Weight loss
- Anaemia (iron deficiency)
- Family history/screening
Complex patients - rooms consultation
- Significant co-morbidities (diabetes, blood thinners, uncontrolled ccf, severe renal disease)
- Haemodynamically unstable patients
- Aged under 16
- Not fit for day-case procedure
- Not fit for at home bowel prep
Our consultants
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