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GP Referrals

Accessing our outpatient clinics

To obtain an appointment within the St. Vincent’s University Hospital outpatient service, a patient must first have a referral from one of the following sources of referral.

  • General practitioner (GP)
  • Emergency Department
  • Consultant to consultant
  • Inpatient referrals originating from an admission
  • Other hospitals or health centres
  • National specialist clinics including National Cancer Control Programme (NCCP) and liver services

How are referrals submitted?

GP Referrals can be submitted to the department in person, by post, by fax or electronically via Healthlink.

Post:
Central Referrals Office
Ambulatory Day Care Centre (ADCC)
St. Vincent’s University Hospital
Elm Park
Dublin 4

Electronically: via Healthlink
Fax: (01) 221 3660
By hand: any of the reception areas in the ADCC Department at St. Vincent’s University Hospital

Please note that all GP referrals can now go through Healthlink.

St. Vincent’s University Hospital continues to develop and maintain a strong working relationship with GPs to ensure we can provide all our patients with the most timely, efficient, relevant and best possible care.

SVUH have set up secure email address for GP use via Healthmail in the following areas:

  1. Lab Results LabResultEnquiry@svhg.ie
  2. Radiology Results GPradiologyresults@svhg.ie
  3. Emergency Department ed@svhg.ie
  4. Patient Outpatient Letters gpletterenquiry@svhg.ie
  • Labs and radiology emails:
    • Purpose: Intended for requesting non-urgent results or copies of patient scans on disc.
    • Not intended for: Referrals.
    • Note: Results can be shared only with the patient’s registered GP or a GP working in the same practice.
  • Emergency Department email:
    • Purpose: For sending additional patient notes when a patient is already en route to SVUH ED from the GP practice.
  • Outpatient Letters email:
    • Purpose: Specifically for requesting correspondence from outpatient clinics.
  • Future updates:
    • Additional addresses for wards and departments will be set up over time, and details will be shared on the website as they become available for use.

Discharge

If you have a query about a discharge summary, please email dischargecoordinator@svuh.ie

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