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General Practice Links
A portal to Victorian Government information for GPs
On this page: Aged care | Chief Health Officer | Child protection | Clinical risk management | Disability services | Drugs and poisons | Hospitals | Immunisation | Infectious diseases | Maternal and child health | Maternity services | MBS Flip Chart | Mental health | Problem gambling | Specialist Outpatient Clinics | VSRF Referral Forms
This page provides quick and easy access to Victorian Government websites commonly used by general practice. It aims to assist general practitioners and general practice staff to easily access relevant information and resources.
We welcome your constructive feedback so that we can continuously improve the site.
Aged care
Chief Health Officer
Child protection
- Child Protection, Family and Early Parenting Services
- Reporting concerns about children and young people
- How to make a referral or report
- Contact Child Protection
Clinical risk management
- Clinical Risk Management - Improving Patient Safety in Victoria's Public Hospitals
- Coronial Communique
- Risk Watch Newsletter
Dental Health
Disability services
- Disability Services
- State-wide Equipment Program
- Intellectual disability health assessment
- CDDHV: A GP guide to the care of patients with an intellectual disability
- CDDHV: Information and support for GPs
- CDDHV: Telephone advice service
- Office of the Senior Practitioner
- Aged Care Assessment Services Protocol: Younger People with a Disability
Drugs and poisons
- Drugs and poisons controls in Victoria
- Find a drug treatment service
- Drugs and Poisons Control in Victoria
- Information for registered health practitioners - includes information about
- key legislative requirements
- Schedule 8 permit requirements
- other permit requirements
- advice about drug-seeking patients
- requirements for managing drugs in general practice.
- Information for patients
- Quality Use of Medicines
- RACGP Victoria - Drugs and Alcohol
- Recommended abbreviations for medicines
Related phone services:
- Medicare Australia’s Prescription Shopper Information Service 1800 631 181
- Drugs and Poisons Regulation Group (DPRG) Help Line – 1300 364 545
Hospitals
- Victorian Health Services Performance – Elective Surgery information
- Direct links to all public hospital websites
- Listing and contact details for public hospitals
- Listing and contact details for private hospitals and day procedure centres
Immunisation
- Immunisation
- Immunisation Schedule
- Government funded vaccine order forms
- Immunisation fact sheets
- Order Resources
Infectious diseases
- Infectious Diseases Epidemiology & Surveillance (IDEAS)
- Notifying infectious diseases and blood lead within Victoria
- The Blue Book
- School exclusion table
- Guidelines
- Could it be whooping cough?
Maternal and child health
Maternity services
- Having a baby in Victoria (pregnancy and child birth options)
- 3 Centres Guidelines on Antenatal Care
- VSRF Maternity
MBS Flip Chart
Mental health
- Victoria's Mental Health Services
- Find a Service
- Mental Health Act
- Chief Psychiatrist's Guidelines
- Perinatal Psychotropic Medicines Information Service
Problem gambling
Specialist outpatient clinics
- Attending outpatients – Special clinics patient information (English version)
- Attending outpatients – Special clinics patient information (other languages)
Links to hospital specialist outpatient clinics (for referrers)
Osteoarthritis Hip and Knee Service (OAHKS) - Information for health professionals and consumers
Metropolitan (Melbourne) hospitals
- Alfred Health
- Austin Health
- Eastern Health
- Melbourne Health
- Mercy Health
- Northern Health
- Peter Mac
- Royal Children's Hospital
- Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital
- Royal Women's Hospital
- Southern Health
- St. Vincent's
- Western Health
Rural and regional hospitals
- Ballarat Health Services
- Barwon Health
- Bendigo Health
- Djerriwarrh Health Services
- Goulburn Valley Health (clinic list)
- Goulburn Valley Health (general information)
- La Trobe Regional Hospital
- Peninsula Health
