Advanced Heart Failure Clinic

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The Heart Failure Team at The Alfred is an experienced multidisciplinary group of advanced heart failure specialist and forms the statewide service for heart transplantation.

Clinical service overview

Our advanced heart failure clinics will benefit patients who could be considered for advanced therapies such as heart transplantation or ventricular assist device (VAD) insertion. This includes complex patients experiencing recurrent hospitalizations, recurrent ventricular arrhythmia, who are unsuitable for coronary/valvular intervention and intolerant of standard pharmacotherapy.

Advanced Heart Failure Clincs:

We also offer a number of other subspeciality heart failure clinics including:

We provide frequent clinical monitoring with our cardiologists as well as telephone reviews with our heart failure nurse practitioners and cardiac pharmacists. We provide access to cutting-edge clinical trials through research collaborations with Monash University and the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute.

We aim to collaborate with referring practitioners in a shared-care model and encourage referrals and consultations.

Refer your patient

Fax referral to us

We accept GP and specialist referrals to this service. 

All referrals are triaged by the service according to clinical urgency. Patients requiring immediate assessment should be sent to the Emergency & Trauma Centre. 

To refer your patient, complete and fax a referral to us. For urgent referrals, also contact the service Registrar to discuss the case.

To ensure appropriate and timely triage, include all demographic and clinical details as well as relevant investigation results. 

If you are concerned about any delay of the appointment or if there is any deterioration in your patient’s condition, contact the service Registrar on call on (03) 9076 2000.

Referral phone

(03) 9076 2025

Referral fax

(03) 9076 6938

Referral email

outpatient@alfred.org.au

Clinic times

Day Campus Time
Monday The Alfred Afternoon
Tuesday The Alfred Afternoon
Wednesday The Alfred Morning

Clinic consultants

  • Dr Anna Beale: Cardiology
  • Dr Peter Bergin: Cardiology
  • Dr Caitlin Cheshire: Cardiology
  • Dr Sarah Gutman: Cardiology
  • A/Prof James Hare: Cardiology
  • Dr Leah Iles: Cardiology
  • A/Prof Ingrid Hopper: General Medicine
  • Prof David Kaye: Cardiology
  • A/Prof Justin Mariani: Cardiology
  • A/Prof Hitesh Patel: Cardiology (Pacing and Heart Failure)
  • Dr Yusuke Sata: Cardiology
  • Dr Su Ling Tee: Cardiology

MBS-billed service

On the doctor’s behalf, Alfred Health can bulk bill the cost of the consultation for some services through Medicare. This means there is no out of pocket expense to the patient. 

MBS-billed services require a current referral. Provide your patient with a 12 month referral to see the specialist of your choice at the requested clinic. 

Referrals must be addressed to a named specialist or the Head of service, listed at the top of this page. Clinic consultants are listed on every clinic page.

Note that from time to time, your patient may be seen by another specialist in the clinic, in order to expedite their treatment.

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