New Patient Referrals & obtaining Appointments
We ask that you read the information provided in this section of the website and follow the appropriate links for more details.
Our staff resources are required for administration services for current patients.
Our reliance on the website, written communication, use of online forms and our intake process are characteristic of our general reception and administrative approach, policies and procedures. The use of email for essential communications, online information, and request forms will be an ongoing feature of your engagement with the reception and administrative team at Prosper Paediatrics. This approach allows us to provide excellent services cost-effectively, efficiently, accurately and consistently and together with the referral requirements will help the providers keep their books open and care for as many children as possible.
New Patient Referrals- information for families
Please ask your referrer to address the referral by name and send it by Healthlink (or other Secure Messaging).
Named referrals are required by the associated providers and for privacy reasons.
Some specialists have closed their books.
Most specialists’ books are open, but not all referrals can be accepted.
Closed books:
Paediatric Neurologist Dr Romain Briest
Paediatricians Dr Josie Nozza; Dr Marianne Yanni; Dr Thu Kent
Open books
Neonatologist: (infants to about two years of age):
Paediatricians ( Doctors for infants, children and adolescents):
Brian Conway, Rebecca Holst, Jane Smith, Kavita Rasiah, Rishi Agrawal.
These specialists have cancellation lists and may bring forward appointments where possible, as long as their private practice continues. Priority is given to referrals triaged as more urgent.
Non-urgent patients- where less urgent referrals are accepted, patients are being placed on a wait list until current capacity constraints allow appointments to be offered.
Referrals to associated paediatricians or neonatologist.
For important information about referral, the intake process, and wait times, please go to:
Your Provider’s Fees
Providers do not offer bulk billing, and fees must be paid on the day immediately following your child’s appointment. Information about your provider’s fee policies is available here: fee payment, bookings, fees & cancellations, as well as Medicare rebates. You can view the providers’ fee schedules here.
Please ensure you understand and accept these requirements, terms and conditions if you wish to request or accept an appointment.
Concerns regarding Fees:
As a private practice, services are funded only by patient fees. Your fees allow us to work efficiently to help your doctor provide excellent, enhanced continuity of care with budgets that are substantially less than those provided by the government in the public system. Unfortunately, concessions cannot be offered to New or Returning Patients. Medicare provides substantial assistance, but we understand that some families will prefer or need to seek free public health or lower-cost services. If so, ask your GP, as soon as possible, to redirect the referral to the appropriate public paediatric health service for your area, whether that is the Women's and Children's, Flinders, Lyell McEwin or Modbury Hospitals or a lower-cost private service. The providers do not offer bulk billing and, unfortunately, concessions cannot be offered.