Infectious Diseases

A comprehensive outpatient service is provided by specialist infectious diseases physicians including:

• HIV medicine
• Tuberculosis
• Exotic and travel diseases
• Needle stick injury management program
• Post surgical infections
• General infections and PUOs
• Post screening refugee care

St Vincent’s is unable to offer the following: 

• Refugee screening (see Royal Melbourne Hospital Refugee Health Assessment Clinic)
• STI screening (see Melbourne Sexual Health Clinic)   

Clinical nurse consultant

St Vincent’s Infectious Diseases Nurse Consultant provides:

• Care coordination for patients with complex Infectious Diseases 
• Support and education for newly diagnosed patients
• Education for carers and significant others
• Provide support to GPs working with patients living with HIV (current or prospective patients of St Vincent’s) 

Please visit the Australasian Society for Infectious Diseasesand the Victorian Department of Healthfor guidelines and a list of notifiable conditions in Victoria.

HealthPathways Melbourne is an online portal designed to be used by general practice at the point of care to guide best practice assessment, management and referral of common clinical conditions.

Please Note:
This is a public outpatient service. All patients need to be referred to us by a GP. Please see your GP if you believe you would benefit from a referral to this clinic. Many doctors have private consulting suites as well as working in the public hospital system. This is entirely separate from St Vincent’s and our staff do not have any information about the private consulting practices of doctors.