Outpatient respiratory services

The Respiratory Department manages a significant amount of patients in the outpatient setting. This is where people are investigated, managed and monitored by attending clinics. Patients who visit from home (also called “outpatients”) are given medical treatment or advice in these clinics and often receive regular follow up.

Clinics are led by a clinician that can be a doctor or allied healthcare professional with specialist knowledge about Respiratory or a sub-specialty of Respiratory. They are accessed via GPs or by other means via a healthcare provider where a request for review is made and sent to a member of the Respiratory Team in the form of a referral.

There are a wide range of clinics available including:

• Allergy
• Asthma
• Bronchiectasis
• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Clinic
• Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD)
• Lung Cancer
• Oxygen
• Pleural
• Tuberculosis (TB)
• Ventilation

Other outpatient services are also available for the investigation and management of respiratory disorders. These include:

• Sleep Services – including various sleep studies and initiation/management of CPAP/BiPAP
• Bronchoscopy and Endobronchial Ultrasound
• Thoracoscopy
• Pulmonary Rehabilitation
• Respiratory Physiology – including pulmonary function tests and exercise tests
• Smoking cessation