Medical Admissions Service at UPMC Aut Even Hospital
UPMC Aut Even Hospital maintains a medical admissions service that is unique to private hospitals in the South East region. This service provides GPs with an instant, expert referral system for patients who require an urgent general medical consultant opinion.
Benefits of our medical admissions service include:
- Minimal waiting times for bed availability (patients admitted within 30 minutes)
- Access to a 24-hour service every day
- Access to a 24-hour house doctor
- Access to highly specialised multidisciplinary and nursing teams
Our service offers access to the following areas of expertise:
- Arrhythmias inclusive of A-fib
- Bradycardia
- Cardiac congestive failure
- Cardioversion and telemetry
- Diagnostics with access to intervention
- Non-acute chest pain
- Pericarditis and endocarditis
- Coeliac disease
- Gallbladder disease
- GIT investigations
- Hepatitis
- Inflammatory bowel diseases
- Jaundice (obstructive and non-obstructive)
- Pernicious anaemia
- Addison’s disease
- Diabetes (newly diagnosed)
- Hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism
- Anaemia
- Coagulation disorders
- Hemochromatosis
- Diagnosis of leukaemia and myeloma
- Asthma
- Bronchitis
- COPD
- Emphysema
- Fibrosis
- Respiratory tract infections
- Sarcoidosis
- Sleep apnoea and sleep studies
- Tuberculosis (provision of isolation room)
- Arthritis diseases
- Back pain
- Corrective tissue disorders
- Fibromyalgia
- Lupus
- Osteopenia
- Septic arthritis
- Headaches or dizziness
- Multiple sclerosis
- Parkinson’s disease
- Neuropathy
- New Onset TIA treatment and diagnosis
- SIADH (sodium inhibiting antidiuretic)
Medical Consultant
Dr. Dilip Jondhale
Tel: 056-7775149
Fax: 056-7722109
How to Refer a Patient
GPs seeking to refer a patient to our medical ward must contact the UPMC Aut Even Hospital bed manager by calling 056-7775269.
You will be asked to provide the following information:
- Patient’s name, date of birth, and insurer
- Presenting complaint (acute or chronic)
- Admitting consultant, if preferable
- Routine or urgent admission
- A detailed letter of referral with patient’s current medications to the relevant consultant’s secretary, via fax or post
