ENT surgical outpatient clinics
Contact
location Surgical Outpatients, Building E, Level 2, Nepean Hospital, Kingswood, NSW 2747 Get directions
Postal address : PO Box 63 Penrith NSW 2751
phone
Fax (02) 4734 1283
opening hours
Ear, nose or throat (ENT) surgical patients can access specialist appointments, tests and procedures without being admitted to hospital.
About us
These clinics are for patients with a clinical condition related to the ear, nose or throat (ENT).
Referral information
Patients will need a referral from their doctor or GP (general practitioner) including details of their patient history, current medications and symptoms, addressed to one of our specialists.
Clinic services, specialists and hours
The following specialist services are available at the Nepean Hospital ENT surgical outpatient clinics.
Complex head and neck (cancer)
Information
This clinic sees patients of all ages with any cancer of the head and neck, including:
- any neck masses or lumps
- thyroid, parathyroid, parotid or submandibular gland cancers
- skin cancers of the head and neck
- any cancers of the mouth, teeth, tongue, tonsil or throat.
Making an appointment
The patient will need a referral letter addressed to this clinic or to one of our specialists:
- Dr Niranjan Sritharan
- Dr Anand Suruliraj
- Professor Faruque Riffat
- Dr Mark Smith.
Referrals for new appointments should be faxed to Surgical Outpatients on (02) 4734 1283. Follow up appointments can be made by calling (02) 4734 1763.
GPs and referring clinicians can access the form in the Nepean Blue Mountains LHD outpatient referral catalogue.
What to bring
- Medicare card for bulk billing
- referral letter or completed referral form.
- all recent scans and pathology results.
Hours of service
This clinic is run monthly on a Thursday and Friday.
Complex rhinology
Information
We see people 18 years and older who live within our district and have any clinical condition of the nose or sinus suitable to be seen by a specialised ear, nose and throat (ENT) surgeon, including broken noses. We do not do plastic surgery.
Making an appointment
The patient will need a detailed referral from a GP, either as a letter or using our referral form, addressed to one of the following:
- Dr Niranjan Sritharan
- Dr Anand Suruliraj
- Dr Dilshard Soodin.
Referrals for new appointments should be faxed to Surgical Outpatients on (02) 4734 1283. Follow up appointments can be made by calling (02) 4734 1763.
GPs and referring clinicians can access the form in the Nepean Blue Mountains LHD outpatient referral catalogue.
What to bring
- Medicare card for bulk billing
- referral letter or completed referral form
- all recent scan and pathology results.
Hours of service
Clinics are held monthly on a Thursday.
General ENT
Information
This clinic is for any patient who lives in the Nepean Blue Mountains LHD with a clinical condition related to the ear, nose or throat.
Making an appointment
The patient will need a detailed referral from their GP addressed to one of the following to be faxed to Surgical Outpatients on (02) 4734 1283:
- Dr Su Para
- Dr Niranjan Sritharan
- Dr Vanaja Siva
- Dr Anand Suruliraj
- Professor Feruque Riffat
- Dr Mark Smith
- Dr Georgina King
- Dr Dilshard Soodin
- Dr Jennifer Lee.
GPs and referring clinicians can access the form in the Nepean Blue Mountains LHD outpatient referral catalogue.
What to bring
- Medicare card for bulk billing
- referral letter or completed referral form
- all recent scan and pathology results.
Hours of service
This clinic runs on various days, you will be contacted to arrange an appointment when we receive your referral.
Paediatric ENT
Information
This clinic is for any patient aged 0 to 16 years who lives in the Nepean Blue Mountains LHD with a clinical condition related to the ear, nose or throat.
Making an appointment
The patient will need a detailed referral from their GP addressed to one of the following to be faxed to Surgical Outpatients on (02) 4734 1283:
- Dr Su Para
- Dr Georgina King.
GPs and referring clinicians can access the form in the Nepean Blue Mountains LHD outpatient referral catalogue.
What to bring
- Medicare card for bulk billing
- referral letter or completed referral form
- all recent scan and pathology results.
Hours of service
This clinic is run every second Monday by Dr Su Para and Dr Georgina King.
Specialist otology (complex ear surgery)
Information
This clinic is for any patient who lives in the Nepean Blue Mountains LHD with a clinical condition related to the ear. This includes hearing loss, pain or discharge, perforated eardrum or foreign bodies.
Making an appointment
The patient will need a detailed referral from their GP addressed to one of the following to be faxed to Surgical Outpatients on (02) 4734 1283:
- Dr Vanaja Siva
- Dr Jennifer Lee.
GPs and referring clinicians can access the form in the Nepean Blue Mountains LHD outpatient referral catalogue.
What to bring
- Medicare card for bulk billing
- referral letter or completed referral form
- all recent scan and pathology results.
Hours of service
This clinic is run monthly on a Monday and Wednesday.
Speech laryngology, voice assessment and swallow
Information
This clinic sees patients aged 18 years and older who live within Nepean Blue Mountains LHD, and who need an assessment of the nose and throat (nasendoscopy).
This can be for routine cancer surveillance, or a follow up after head or neck surgery to review and support the recovery of a person’s speech and swallowing.
SPLARY clinic
This speech pathology clinic sees patients with a laryngectomy who live in Nepean Blue Mountains LHD and who are not current patients of the Nepean Cancer Care Centre. Laryngectomy patients from outside the area may be able to access the service in limited circumstances.
SPENT clinic
This speech pathology clinic sees patients who live in Nepean Blue Mountains LHD and whose needs are related to ear, nose and throat (ENT) surgery or head and neck surgery.
Patients need to be referred to this clinic by an ear nose and throat (ENT) or maxillofacial (maxfac) surgeon for dysphagia (difficulty swallowing) or trismus (‘lockjaw’). Any patient with dysphagia or trismus that is not related to ENT or head and neck surgery should be referred to the Speech Pathology Dysphagia clinic instead.
We also see head and neck surgery patients before and after certain operations, such as glossectomy (removal of part or all of the tongue) or tracheostomy (cut into the windpipe).
Patients from outside the area may be able to access the service in limited circumstances.
SPHN clinic (multidisciplinary team clinic)
This speech pathology clinic sees only patients who would qualify for the SPENT clinic (see above) but who need input from multidisciplinary teams.
ENTvoice clinic (multidisciplinary team clinic)
This speech pathology clinic sees patients who live in the Nepean Blue Mountains LHD and need assessment of voice or swallowing through procedures known as nasendoscopy and stroboscopy or FEES (fiberoptic endoscopic evaluation of swallowing).
Patients needing voice therapy should be referred to the SPvoice clinic.
Patients from outside the local area may be able to access the service once in limited circumstances.
Making an appointment
The patient will need a referral faxed to Surgical Outpatients on (02) 4734 1283, either:
- from a surgeon, addressed to one of the following head and neck specialists:
- Dr Niranjan Sritharan
- Dr Anand Suruliraj
- Dr Faruque Riffat
- Dr Mark Smith.
- or from a speech pathologist, addressed to ENT Speech Pathology.
GPs and referring clinicians can access the form in the Nepean Blue Mountains LHD outpatient referral catalogue.
What to bring
- Medicare card for bulk billing
- referral letter or completed referral form
- all recent scan and pathology results.
Hours of service
This clinic is run monthly on a Thursday and Friday.
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