For Patients: Pre Admission

Pre Admission

Your booking will be made through your doctor's surgery. For a smooth admission process, we ask that you attend to the following matters prior to your admission:

Pre Admission Information

Our Pre Admission Office is open from 8:30am to 6:00pm, and it is preferable that you attend in person to complete or deliver the necessary paper work. If you are unable to do so, please telephone our Pre Admission Coordinator with your details on 9788 3699. This contact you have with the Pre Admissions Office will confirm your details, including date and proposed time of your admission, your procedure and your expectations relating to discharge and post discharge care.

Pre-admission Service

At Peninsula Private all elective admission packages are reviewed by the pre-admission Nurse who will contact you by phone if any further pre-operative work is necessary. It is most important that you return the elective admission package to the hospital as soon as possible for a timely review. 

All patients having major hip and knee surgery are asked to contact the hospital on 9788 3645 or 9788 3699 to make an appointment for a group discussion with nurses, physiotherapist, and occupational therapist in preparation for surgery, and optimum recovery and discharge planning (refer to brochure from surgeons rooms).

All patients undergoing major bowel surgery, lung or extensive prostate surgery will need careful review by the pre-admission nurse either by phone or in person.

Please phone 9788 3645 or 9788 3699 if a hospital representative has not contacted you for an appointment.

Any queries please phone Sue Galea on 9788 3699

Pre admission Office Hours:
Monday               11am - 6pm
Tuesday              9am – 3pm
Wednesday         10am - 2pm
Thursday             9am – 3.30pm
Friday                 12pm – 3pm

Private Health Insurance

Please contact your Private Health Fund to confirm your level of cover and whether you have an excess or co-payment on your policy. In the event that you do have an excess or co-payment, your excess is payable at the time of your admission, and co-payment(s) are payable at discharge.

What to bring

• Name and details of your General Practitioner
• Details of Insurance Cover
• Health Fund membership details
• Work Cover/TAC Details
• Department of Veterans' Affairs card
• Pension Entitlement card
• Pharmaceutical Entitlement card
• Relevant existing X-rays and CT scans
• All medications you are currently taking in their original container (including tablets, vitamins, mixtures, creams, inhalers or drops). If possible, please bring a list from your General Practitioner of your current medications, their strengths and dosages.
• Sleepwear, dressing gown for overnight stay and slippers or comfortable shoes
• Glasses, hearing aids and non-electronic walking aids
• Toiletries, including soap, toothpaste and toothbrush
• Reading material

For children please consider

• Bottles
• Nappies
• Books
• Toys or Games

You will be provided with a security locker for medication and small personal items. However, we recommend that you do not bring cash amounts greater than $50 or any jewellery items with you. A few dollars is recommended for incidental items such as newspapers or articles from the Pharmacy or Kiosk.

The Hospital cannot accept responsibility for your valuables.

Mobile phones should not be used in the Wards as their signals can interfere with electronic medical equipment.