- Overview
- Gynaecology services
- Maternity services
- Women’s Mental Health Service
- Neonatal care
- Oncology services
- Dysplasia Clinic
- Radiology & Ultrasound
- Sexual & reproductive health services
- Patient support services
- Abortion & contraception services
- Victorian Perinatal Autopsy Service (VPAS)
- Violence & sexual assault
- Women’s Emergency Care
- Clinical resources
- Clinical education & training
- Patient information requests
- For GPs
The Women's is Australia's largest specialist hospital dedicated to improving the health of all women and newborn babies.
The Women's provides clinical expertise and leadership in obstetrics, neonatal, gynaecology,oncology and mental health. We foster a holistic philosophy of health, provide national leadership in health promotion and consumer health communication and our hospital is an important advocate for improvements in women's health and well-being. Find out more in our Overview
The hospital delivers Electronic Discharge Summaries securely via the Telstra Health Argus Facility. If you subscribe to this service, discharge summaries will be automatically delivered to your medical practice software. We will continue to fax discharge summaries to those not using Argus.
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Overview
We provide a range of clinical services, expertise and leadership in obstetrics, neonatalogy, gynaecology, oncology and women's health across the Parkville and Sandringham campuses.
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Gynaecology services
We have established Victoria’s first chronic pelvic pain clinic to help women manage debilitating pain.
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Maternity services
At the Women’s, we encourage all women to be actively involved in their pregnancy, birth and postnatal care, and we encourage the involvement of your partner, support person and family.
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Women’s Mental Health Service
The Women’s Mental Health Service provides assessment and treatment for women who are current patients of the Women’s and who have a comorbid mental health problem.
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Neonatal care
The Women’s has one of Australia’s largest specialist neonatal services. Our intensive care and special care nurseries provide comprehensive care for unwell and/or premature babies.
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Oncology services
The Women's provides an integrated multidisciplinary oncology service for women with benign, pre-malignant and malignant breast and gynaecological conditions.
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Dysplasia Clinic
The Dysplasia Clinic, part of the Women's Gynaeoncology Service, provides specialist care for women with screen detected precancerous abnormalities of the cervix, vulva and vagina.
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Radiology & Ultrasound
The Pauline Gandel Women's Imaging Centre provides a tertiary, complex integrated radiology and ultrasound service to patients.
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Sexual & reproductive health services
The Women's provides extensive sexual and reproductive health services including female genital mutilation reversal, assisted reproductive technologies, sexual counselling and sexual health screening, and contraceptive advice and prescriptions.
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Patient support services
We offer a range of support services for Women's patients.
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Abortion & contraception services
Information for women with unplanned or unwanted pregnancy, and for their friends, family or health professionals is available on the Women's web site.
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Victorian Perinatal Autopsy Service (VPAS)
The Victorian Perinatal Autopsy Service (VPAS) provides a co-ordinated state-wide service ensuring consistent standards of practice and expertise for the clinical investigation of perinatal deaths across Victoria
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Violence & sexual assault
The Women’s provides services to victim/survivors of both recent (within the past two weeks) and past sexual assault through the Centre Against Sexual Assault (CASA) House and the Sexual Assault Crisis Line.
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Women’s Emergency Care
We provide direct clinical primary care for women presenting with acute obstetric and gynaecological problems and newborns with a range of neonatal conditions. The department is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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Clinical resources
The Women's provides a range of clinical resources and support for health professionals.
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Clinical education & training
The Women's offers a multi-disciplinary education and training program for health professionals and health care agencies.
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Patient information requests
The Royal Women's Hospital processes requests for patient information from a wide range of health care providers to support the continuum of patient care. Requests for more than three medical records are considered research requests.
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Disclaimer
The clinical information and Clinical Guidelines available on this Website are intended to provide guidance to health care professionals, based on a thorough evaluation of research evidence, on the practical assessment and management of specific clinical issues or situations. The Guidelines allow some flexibility on the part of the health care professional based on the needs of the specific patient for whom they are caring. Whilst appreciable care has been taken in the preparation of Clinical Guidelines, the Women's provides these as a service only and does not warrant the accuracy of these Guidelines. Any representation implied or expressed concerning the efficacy, appropriateness or suitability of any treatment or product is expressly negated. In view of the possibility of human error and / or advances in medical knowledge, the Women's cannot and does not warrant that the information contained in the Guidelines is in every respect accurate or complete. Accordingly, the Women's will not be held responsible or liable for any errors or omissions that may be found in any of the information on this Website. You are encouraged to consult other sources in order to confirm the information contained in any of the Guidelines and, in the event that medical treatment is required, to take professional, expert advice from a legally qualified and appropriately experienced medical practitioner. For practitioners outside the Women’s this material is made available in good faith as a resource for use by health professionals to draw on in developing their own protocols, guided by published medical evidence. In doing so, practitioners should themselves be familiar with the literature and make their own interpretations of it. NOTE: Care should be taken when printing any Clinical Guideline from this Website. Updates to these guidelines will take place as necessary. It is therefore advised that regular visits to this Website will be needed to access the most current version of these guidelines.