For emergencies and urgent assistance, please call 000. If you would like to know more about what constitutes a medical emergency, please visit the emergency hotline website below.
Emergency hotline
Phone: 000
Website: www.triplezero.gov.au
For more information about common medical conditions and treatments, consumer medicine information, healthy lifestyle choices and more, visit the Better Health Channel.
Website: www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au
For out of hours information and assistance regarding mental health, the following organisations provide a range of helpful services for patients:
Lifeline
For emergency counselling assistance
Phone: 13 11 14
Website: www.lifeline.org.au
Mental health/depression
Website: www.blackdoginstitute.org.au
National Depression Initiative
Website: www.beyondblue.org.au
Headspace for youth/adolescence
Website: www.headspace.org.au
For information about children’s health issues, such as allergies, disease treatment, nutrition, poisons and more, visit the Westmead Children’s Hospital website below.
Poisons Information Hotline
Phone: 13 11 26
Website: www.chw.edu.au
Westmead Children's Hospital
Website: www.chw.edu.au/parents
For more information about chronic disease management and prevention, the following organisations offer a wealth of specialist information for each condition.
Heart health:
Website: www.heartfoundation.org.au
Arthritis Australia
Website: www.arthritisaustralia.com.au
Cancer Council Australia
Website: www.cancer.org.au
Epilepsy Australia
Website: www.epilepsyaustralia.net
National Asthma Foundation
Website: www.nationalasthma.org.au
Diabetes Australia:
Website: www.diabetesaustralia.com.au
Obesity Australia
Website: www.obesityaustralia.org
Chest pain, breathing difficulties, collapse or altered consciousness, facial/limb weakness, extensive burns or very unwell call 000.