Endoscopy · Refer Your Patient
Copied from the official Gold Coast Health condition page (27 Aug 2026). Hospital triage assigns the official category. Live source: Refer Your Patient — Dyspepsia/heartburn/reflux > 50 years.
Cat 1 · 30 days
appointment within 30 calendar days. - Any patient with significant impact on activities of daily living, unexplained, persistent, or recent-onset symptoms (treatment-resistant) with any of the following concerning features: - Gastrointestinal bleeding - Weight loss, ≥5% of body weight in previous 6 months - Difficulty swallowing - Persistent vomiting - Iron deficiency in males and postmenopausal women or unexplained iron deficiency in premenopausal women
Cat 2 · 90 days
appointment within 90 calendar days. - Any patient with significant, unexplained, persistent, or recent-onset symptoms (treatment-resistant) without concerning features
Cat 3 · 365 days
appointment within 365 calendar days. - No category 3 criteria
Referral will be returned without this. If a mandatory test cannot be obtained, say so in the referral.
- Patient and family history of gastrointestinal cancer e.g. relationship to patient, age of cancer diagnosis and type of cancer - Medication management to date (document treatments offered and efficacy including failed treatment with moderate dose PPI for dyspepsia) - FBC - Iron studies If a specific test result is unable to be obtained due to access, financial, religious, cultural or consent reasons a Clinical Override may be requested. This reason must be clearly articulated in the body of the referral.
- There are currently no out of scope conditions for this service.
Parent service: Endoscopy
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