Respiratory and Thoracic Medicine

Conditions

Thoracic medicine services are provided at four locations within the Metro North area by the Department of Thoracic medicine. These hospitals are Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, The Prince Charles Hospital, Caboolture Hospital and Redcliffe Hospital. Patients will be allocated to the various facilities based on their postcode, the availability of particular services at those facilities and to improve equity of access across the district.

Pulmonary Rehabilitation Services

For information on direct referral to pulmonary rehabilitation and referral guidelines

Paediatric services

Referrals for children and young people should follow the Children’s Health Queensland referral guidelines.

Urban Indigenous Respiratory Outpatient Clinic (UROC)

The Urban Indigenous Respiratory Outreach Clinic (UROC) project delivers specialist respiratory services to Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander adults in two IUIH Indigenous Community Centres within Metro North (Margate and Morayfield). Please refer to the UROC Program information for clinic details and referral pathways.

Out of scope services

Not all services are funded in the Queensland public health system. The following are not routinely provided in a public Respiratory and Thoracic Medicine service.

• Chest wall pain
• Non-Cardiac chest pain
• Occupational lung assessment
• Direct screening TB – should be referred to contact and immigration screening (TB control centre)
• Direct access Respiratory Function Test (RFT) is not available. RFT requires specialist review

Specialists list