Referrals

Private consultation referrals

Letters of referral for private consultation are accepted on letterhead, signed by a general practitioner or specialist with referring doctor provider number details. Please fax, scan and email, mail or deliver referrals to either MonashHeart Dandenong or MonashHeart Casey so an appointment can be made. The patient will be sent, faxed or emailed a letter of appointment with details of location, date, time and cost.

Rapid Assessment Chest Pain Clinic

The Rapid Assessment Chest Pain Clinic (RACPC) is conducted twice per week at MonashHeart Clayton. The RACPC is a fast route entry system for patients with chest pain suspected to be of cardiac origin. This clinic is a cardiologist led one-stop clinic and offers a once only, quick and early review of referred outpatients within three to five days. The RACPC will accept referrals from general practitioners and for low risk chest pain patients who have recently been discharged from an emergency department, expediting outpatient assessment, diagnosis, treatment, risk factor modification and follow-up of low to intermediate risk chest pain outpatients, thereby reducing cardiac morbidity and mortality.

RACPC referral guidelines include chest pain suspected to be of cardiac origin including 

  • New onset chest pain
  • Increasing chest pain
  • Change in pattern of chest pain
  • Chest pain of uncertain origin
  • Other chest pain of concern

A written referral is required and can be faxed, scanned and emailed or delivered to MonashHeart Clayton so an appointment can be made.

Test referrals

Tests offered to adult and paediatric patients include:

Referrals for tests are accepted on any providers referral form. 

Outpatient tests

Please fax, scan and email, mail or deliver referrals to either of our sites.While every effort will be made to arrange an appointment for your patient at the closest location to them, this is not always possible as some tests are not provided at all sites, or waiting times may be significantly shorter at an alternative MonashHeart site.

Inpatient tests

Inpatient tests are provided at all three of our sites but not all tests are provided at all sites. For general inpatient or emergent referrals, please fax the referral form to MonashHeart (fax details can be found on the referral form) or drop the form off at the MonashHeart front reception. For emergency referrals, please call the relevant on-call registrar, fellow or consultant as per the switchboard roster.

Procedure referrals

Our cardiac liaison team co-ordinate and book all public and private patients for cardiac procedures including:

  • Diagnostic and interventional coronary and structural catheterisation laboratory procedures – two cardiac catheterisation laboratories located at MonashHeart Clayton
  • Cardiac rhythm catheterisation laboratory procedures – one cardiac catheterisation laboratory located at MonashHeart Clayton
  • Elective cardioversion – performed each Wednesday morning at the MonashHeart Dandenong cardiac care unit, Dandenong Hospital (public patients) and Jessie McPherson Private Hospital cardiac care unit (private patients).

Outpatient procedures

Referrals for procedures can only be accepted from a cardiologist accompanied by a detailed letter documenting the patients current and past history, medications, relevant blood results and presenting treatment needs.

Booking office telephone: (03) 9594 2684
Booking office fax: (03) 9594 2091
Cardiac Liaison Coordinator: 0416 146 078
Email  
 Mailing address:

Catheterisation laboratory booking office,
MonashHeart, 246 Clayton Road,
Clayton, 3168

Inpatient procedures

Inpatient procedures will be performed once the patient has been reviewed and accepted for the procedure by a MonashHeart registrar, fellow or consultant

For public patients please contact:
  • Monash Medical Centre Clayton: MonashHeart Clayton referrals registrar via switchboard 92
  • Dandenong Hospital: MonashHeart Dandenong registrar via switchboard 91
  • Casey Hospital: MonashHeart Clayton referrals registrar via switchboard 92

For private patients please contact the consultant cardiologist on-call for private patients via Clayton switchboard 92.

Co-ordination of the daily cardiac catheterisation laboratory procedure list is performed by the Cardiac Liaison Coordinator contactable on 0416 146 078.

Cardiac rehabilitation referrals

MonashHeart and Southern Health provide six cardiac rehabilitation programs based across sites of the Southern Health catchment area. Cardiac rehabilitation aims to facilitate recovery from a cardiac event, help reduce the risk of a further cardiac event and facilitate return to work and leisure activities. Click here for more information

A medical professional can make a referral using our CRP Referral form which needs to be completed prior to booking the client into their cardiac rehabilitation program.

Test referral form

Download the test referral form
Print, mail or fax to the relevant site/service area.

Rapid Assessment Chest Pain Clinic referral form

Download the RACPC referral form
Print, mail or fax to MonashHeart Clayton.

View the referral guidelines

Referral guidelines for GP’s and LMO aim to assist in the clinical indications for all our cardiac tests and RACPC clinic. Note these are guidelines only and every effort will be taken to ensure these are up-to-date.

Order referral forms

Please call 1300 MHEART or contact us if you wish to have copies of our A4 MonashHeart private practice software compatible referral forms delivered to your practice/area.