The department facilitates the development of statewide referral criteria bringing together hospital heads of units, nursing and allied health clinicians with community-based clinicians and Primary Health Network representatives to collaborate and identify statewide referral criteria for each clinical specialty.
Statewide referral criteria for the following specialties are under development:
- children’s surgery (children)
- ophthalmology (children)
- orthopaedics (children).
Reviewed 16 July 2025