Respiratory & Sleep
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Health professionals can access our Referrals
- Respiratory & Sleep Medicine provides specialist assessment, diagnosis, and management of lung conditions and sleep‑related disorders. The service supports people with breathing difficulties, chronic respiratory disease, and sleep problems that affect health, safety, or daily functioning.
We care for and treat people with:
- Asthma
- Bronchiectasis
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
- Cough (persistent)
- Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD)
- Lung Cancer
- Pleural Effusion
- Pneumonia
- Pneumothorax
- Unexplained Chronic Breathlessness
- Adult Sleep Disorders.
Exclusions
The following conditions/procedures are not routinely seen at Bayside Health - Regional (Bass Coast):
- Pulmonary Function Tests
- Home Oxygen Assessments
- Patients who have purchased their CPAP machine from an external supplier experiencing technical problems.
How to access this service
Referral to this service can be made by your general practitioner (GP), another medical specialist or a healthcare professional, as well as hospital-based staff in the emergency department, inpatient wards and other areas of the hospital.
More information for health practitioners and referrers is available here:
Respiratory and Sleep Referral Guide:
- Referral Form: MR-309 Outpatient specialist clinic referral:
Clinically recommended guidance and resources for Health Professionals in the Gippsland region are available through Gippsland Pathways.
Additional requirements for adult sleep disorder referrals
- OSA questionnaire - Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS)
- OSA questionnaire - OSA50
- OSA questionnaire - STOP-Bang
https://www.sleepprimarycareresources.org.au/questionnaires/ess
https://www.sleepprimarycareresources.org.au/questionnaires/osa50
https://www.sleepprimarycareresources.org.au/questionnaires/stop-bang
Additional resources
https://www.cpaponline.com.au/collections/bmc-bmedical
https://www.sleepgroup.com.au/
What to bring to your appointment:
- Medicare card
- Health Care Card and/or concession card (if you have one)
- Private health insurance card (if applicable/if you want to use it)
- Adverse drug alert card (if you have one)
- Previous x-ray films, scans, ultrasounds or any other test results or reports
- Medicines you need to take while you are here
- List of medicines you are currently taking (or the boxes), including medicines you have bought without a prescription, such as herbal supplements and vitamins
- Glasses, hearing aid(s) and/or walking frame if needed.
