Health professionals

Referral form

Please complete our online referral form‍

Please note - Referrals will only be considered as suitable for the service if a GP or medical specialist submits a completed online referral form. Referrals sent via email will not be considered.

Discuss a referral

If you are uncertain about whether to refer, you may ask to speak with the Neuropsychiatry Intake Registrar by contacting us at 03 9138 2850 or leaving a message

Referral process

Once a referral is received by us, a decision is made as to whether an inpatient or outpatient assessment for your patient is required. The clinical team meets weekly to discuss incoming referrals.

Request a Patient's Medical Record

If you require a medical record for a patient and/or client for legal purposes, please contact the Health Information Services at the Royal Melbourne Hospital on 03 9342 7359 or 03 9342 8008

Medical records and FOI requests

You have the right to access your medical record and other information. Find out how.

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We assess patients who have a mixture of psychiatric and/or neurological conditions which require specialized diagnostic, investigational and recommendations regarding treatment. We are unable to provide ongoing treatment to the majority of referrals and will generally refer people back to their treating team or specialist.

Your patient may be referred to our service for:

• Differentiating severe mental illness from ‘organic disorders’ / neurological causes
• Younger onset dementia / rare/ atypical dementias
• Movement disorders either primary (Huntington’s Disease or predictive Huntington’s Disease) or secondary (medication related)
• Neurogenetic assessments in conjunction with Neurogenetics Royal Melbourne Hospital
• Metabolic Neuropsychiatry eg Inborn metabolic disorders with psychiatric sequelae (Niemann Pick Type C, PKU)

• Neuropsychiatric assessment in people with neurological disorders (e.g. Parkinson’s disease, epilepsy)
• Deep Brain Stimulation for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
• ECT: where the provision of ECT requires care in a tertiary medical hospital
• Other neuropsychiatric presentation (schizophrenia with movement disorder, vasculitis, organic psychiatric disorder, neurometabolic disorder)

We are unable to accept referrals for:

• The assessment or diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder / autism spectrum disorders /intellectual disability
• Treatment of: primary psychiatric disorders, behavioural disturbance in intellectual disability or functional neurological disorders

Please note: Referrals will not be accepted if another service is felt to be more appropriate (such as a private psychiatrist, brain injury service, intellectual disability services etc.) or if the request is solely for neuropsychology assessment. We will endeavour to provide referrers with alternative referral options if we cannot accept the referral. You may find a link here to a comprehensive list of publicly available neuropsychology services

What can our specialist team offer your patient as well as yourself as a healthcare provider?

Our specialists can offer your patient as well as yourself as the patient’s health care provider:

• neuropsychiatric assessment
• attendance at multidisciplinary meetings
• educational seminars
• involvement in carer and patient support
• video interpreting services available

Please note: We are unable to provide home based assessments or crisis / urgent assessments. Please contact either the ambulance, your nearest hospital or contact the NorthWesternMentalHealth Triage Service after-hours on 1300 874 243 (1300 TRIAGE)

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