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Please ring the rooms on the day of your appointment to check if the doctors are running on time.

Before your visit
  • Please ensure you have a valid referral from a GP or your Specialist. Have the referral emailed or faxed before the visit, or upload on our website.
  • Complete the medical questionnaire and patient information attached to the SMS confirmation that would have been sent to the mobile number supplied to us. This is also on our website.
  • Allow time for parking, further instructions below.
  • If your child is an allergy patient -Please ensure no antihistamine 48 hours before the appointment and no topical steroids on the body. Also please bring along any previous allergy test results, or blood results.
  • If your child is a developmental/behavioural patient – please ensure to bring any medical reports, school or developmental reports and psychology reports.
  • A mask may be required to be worn, especially if you have respiratory symptoms.
  • Fees are quoted at time of appointment scheduling and are variable dependent on the service. If you are unsure please call the practice and the staff can assist.
  • There are Medicare rebates for a proportion of the fees, with a current referral.
  • We are able to submit your Medicare claim electronically for fast rebate.
  • Fees are to be paid on the day.
  • We accept cash, EFTPOS, cheques, Visa and Mastercard.
  • Children must attend a consultation for fees to qualify for a Medical rebate unless otherwise organized.

At Southern Paediatrics, we try to assist our families with reminders of appointments via SMS or a follow-up phone call. However, we ask that you take a clear note of your appointment date at the time of making the appointment, as it is your responsibility to manage this and to contact us to make changes if you are no longer able to attend your scheduled time.

We ask that you give our Reception team adequate notice if you are unable to attend your appointment. The clinicians have long waiting lists, and if your appointment is not attended or cancelled at late notice, we are unable to fill the spot. This means that appointment times are lost, which could have been used to help other children and their families. It also means that the doctor loses income for that appointment.

For appointments cancelled within 24hrs, or a non-attendance to a booked appointment, will incur a $100 fee.

We are located at Suite 307 (vel 3), 13A Montgomery St, Kogarah.

The building is next to the police station and above Gee’s Café.

If your appointment is on the weekend please ring the bell by pressing 307, for access into the building.

Kogarah has limited parking, and mostly timed. We suggest parking at Kogarah Town Centre, above Woolworths , or alternatively at St George Private or the library. Allow extra time for parking.

A GP referral is valid for 12 months from the first appointment date. Ongoing a new referral will be required every 12 months from this date. A Specialist referral is valid for 3 months and also requires ongoing valid referrals for ongoing appointments.

You will be sent an SMS reminder 1-2 weeks prior to your appointment. Could you please respond with a Y or N response? Any appointments cancelled within 24 hours will be charged a $100 cancellation fee, as will a non-attendance to an appointment.

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Dr Bernadette Hanna

Consulting Hours:

Qualifications:

MBBS BSc (Med)

Background and Experience:

Bernadette completed her medical degree at the University of NSW (MBBS BSc (Med)). She trained in Paediatrics at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead before being drawn to Clinical Genetics; the interface between genetic research and patient care. She has worked with the Clinical Genetics services at Sydney Children’s Hospital at Randwick, Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and Liverpool Hospitals. She is a registered Clinical Geneticist with a special interest in genetic conditions affecting children and connective tissue disorders.

Bernadette is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and Fellow of the Human Genetics Society of Australasia. She previously Co-Chaired the Trainee committee for the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. She has provided several teaching sessions to trainee doctors, Paediatricians and Obstetricians in the functional benefits and caution of Genetic testing in their patients.

www.privategenetics.com.au/about-us

Dr Chris Elliot

Consulting Hours:

Thursdays

Qualifications:

MB BS, FRACP

Background and Experience:

Dr Elliot trained through the Sydney Children’s Hospital’s Network Randwick.  He holds dual qualifications as a specialist in both ​General Paediatrics (the care of newborns, children and young people) and Community Child Health (developmental and behavioural medicine, public health and child protection).

During his paediatric specialist training, Dr Elliot was awarded the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) Examination Medal in Paediatrics as the candidate with the highest examination mark in Australia and New Zealand.

He currently works in both in private consulting rooms in Kogarah, as a Staff Specialist Paediatrician at St George Hospital, Sydney and he holds an honorary Staff Specialist position in the Department of Community Child Health at Sydney Children’s Hospital Randwick.

In 2019 Dr Elliot was nominated in the category of “Outstanding Leadership” in the South Eastern Sydney Local Health District Community Health awards.
Dr Elliot is the paediatrician for the St George Paediatric Multidisciplinary Complex Feeding Clinic.  In August 2016 Dr Elliot and the clinic team were awarded the South Eastern Sydney Local Health District Award for Innovation in Integrated Care.

Dr Elliot’s practice is evidence-based and up to date.  He regularly attends relevant conferences and is an active member of the Neurodevelopmental and Behavioural Paediatric Society of Australasia.

He is is a Conjoint Lecturer at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and has received student-nominated awards for his teaching.

www.drchriselliot.com.au