Our Services
Brisbane Northside Emergency is a leading private fee-for-service emergency centre providing immediate and quality care for adults and children of all ages- 24 hours day, 7 days week- including public holidays.
Children:
Our experienced staff treat children of all ages with most childhood accidents and illnesses at any time of the day and night. In fact 25% of our presentations are children.
If your child requires hospitalisation, we can refer your child to a paediatrician for ongoing management. This paediatrician will decide on the most appropriate hospital for your child's care. HSN does not have a paediatric ward. Only a small number of children require hospitalisation.
Very sick infants/children requiring urgent ambulance care should bypass BNE and continue on to the Children’s Hospital as it is the only suitable facility for this small group of children.
We are happy to apply casts and treat fractures referred to us for our management. We do not apply casts to patients who are referred to us just for cast application.
Adults:
We treat most adult conditions- with a few exceptions- these being:
Major Multi trauma - Should proceed to the large public facilities.
Obstetrics - We do not have in-patient services for Obstetric & Gynaecological patients at Holy Spirit Northside and generally do not treat these patients over 22 weeks gestation.
However, our strong relationship with North West Private Hospital provides us with an almost seamless transition for GYNE patients requiring admission.
Psychiatry - We do not have the facilities to treat psychiatric patients. There is a major facility next door at The Prince Charles Hospital.
DVA – BNE is not a DVA provider and does not have the ability to process any DVA accounts including Gold Cards (with or without private insurance). This includes DVA patients that have recently undergone care and/or surgery at Holy Spirit Northside Hospital.
Patient’s insured by The Department of Veterans’ Affairs can be DIRECTLY admitted to Holy Spirit Northside under their private Consultant if the referring doctor has made those arrangements.
Alternatively, the Prince Charles Emergency Department can manage DVA patients.
Workers Compensation - Generally work cover patients are not treated at BNE.
HOWEVER, there are a few provisions:
All patients are required to pay for their treatment at the time of consultation and arrange their own third party rebates. Work cover is no exception.
We do not directly bill any third party or send out accounts. Additionally, work cover patients requiring admission to Holy Spirit Northside require private health insurance initially, until the claim is accepted. Generally, work cover patients with no private health cover are transferred to a public hospital.
To avoid double-handling, workplace injury requiring admission should ideally bypass BNE.
