In general, non-urgent consultant-to-consultant referrals are no longer carried out, and this means patients are referred back to their GP.
Child and adolescent mental health referrals are accepted only if they have severe mental health difficulties; GPs are asked to manage the remaining patients, yet we are not trained in child psychiatry.
A cross-party report on food banks this month urged the government to protect local welfare assistance after hearing evidence that food bank referrals would increase if it was not reinstated.
At least eight referrals to the police were made on the subject of asylum seeker stories, and active police investigations continue into a number of the referrals.
He went to a Hawkwind gig, he explains, and loads a YouTube video for me to watch, before popping back out to make us strong cups of tea and collect print-outs of the day's referrals.
After all, physiotherapy has made significant advances in the recent past: since 1977, it has enjoyed clinical autonomy and been able to take direct patient referrals; in 2002, the first consultant physiotherapist was appointed; and in 2013, physiotherapists won independent prescribing rights.
The research suggested referrals to community mental health teams, which help people avoid being admitted to hospital, had risen nearly 18.5%.
The Shenhua mine has already gone through a series of approval processes, include two NSW PAC assessments as well a number of referrals under the federal water trigger process.
Cotton Australia's chief executive, Adam Kay, said he was concerned about how the referrals had been done.
Hospitals are no longer paid for consultant-to-consultant referrals, but only for the problem for which the patient was referred.
This will reduce "routine" referrals to hospitals, leaving them to manage complex and urgent work.
