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This website provides general practitioner guidelines for the referral of patients to outpatient services. They have been developed to ensure that patients are treated in order of relative priority and in a similar manner throughout Western Australia.

How to use these guidelines:

Step 1	Go to Guidelines for First Specialist Assessment.
Step 2	Based on provisional diagnosis, search Specialist Area (eg. cardiology, ENT).
Step 3	Follow suggested evaluation and management options for condition.
Step 4	Complete Referral Form [Word / 255KB] and suggest CPAC category as per guidelines.
Step 5	Forward Referral Form [Word / 255KB] and other information to hospital or as instructed by guideline.

For information on CPAC category definitions go to the CPAC Summary located on the content page.

The referral guidelines and Clinical Priority Access Criteria (CPAC) summaries cover many commonly referred conditions for adult patients. Please contact Princess Margaret Hospital for Children on (08) 9340 8222 to page the On Call Specialist or Registrar if you have any concerns regarding the management plans of your paediatric / adolescent patients.

File Formats

Some documents for download on this website are in a Portable Document Format (PDF). To read these files you might need to download Adobe® Acrobat Reader.