Thanks for considering Dr Padhye for your patient’s care. This page covers how to refer, what to do for urgent problems, and the patient resources you’re welcome to use in the meantime.
How to refer
Referrals can come through any of the following. Wherever possible, please include relevant history, examination findings, audiograms or imaging, and a current medication list.
- Healthlink EDI:
entsthau - Fax: 08 8363 3083
- Email: admin@entsa.com
- Post: 30 Flinders Street, Kent Town SA 5067
- Phone: 08 8362 5255 (Monday–Friday 9am–5pm)
Sending the referral in advance helps us book your patient on the right clinic day, as not every service runs every day.
Urgent referrals
Please call us about patients with urgent problems. Direct contact between us is often the quickest way to optimise investigation and management.
The following conditions may need urgent attention:
- Acute otitis externa or otitis media not settling with first-line therapy
- Sudden sensorineural hearing loss
- Sudden severe vertigo
- Acute sinusitis with concerning features
- Mild epistaxis
- Acute tonsillitis or suspected quinsy
- Ear or nose foreign bodies (out of hours where appropriate)
- Suspected head and neck malignancy, including a persistent neck lump > 3 weeks in an adult
- Facial nerve palsy of unclear cause
- New or worsening symptoms in a patient already under Dr Padhye’s care
What Dr Padhye treats
Dr Padhye sees the full range of paediatric and adult ENT presentations. His sub-specialty interests are:
- Snoring and obstructive sleep apnoea, including palatal and tongue surgery and neurostimulation implants
- Chronic rhinosinusitis, nasal polyps and revision sinus surgery
- Septoplasty, turbinate surgery and nasal valve repair
- Paediatric ENT – tonsils, adenoids, grommets, paediatric sleep-disordered breathing
- Salivary gland disorders
Where Dr Padhye operates
Private hospital lists are held at The Memorial Hospital (North Adelaide), Calvary Adelaide and Calvary Central Districts. Public consults and lists run at The Royal Adelaide Hospital, Modbury Hospital and Lyell McEwin Hospital. See Our Hospitals for addresses and links.
Clinical questions
If you’d like to discuss a clinical question before referring, or you want to chat about an existing patient, please call the rooms on 08 8362 5255 and reception will put you through to Dr Padhye or arrange a callback at his next free slot.
Patient resources you can use
You’re welcome to share any of the patient resources on this site with the families you refer. The pages most often used by GPs are:
- What to bring to your first consultation
- Preparing for surgery – medications, fasting, what to bring to hospital
- Post-op instruction sheets for the most common procedures (tonsillectomy, adenoidectomy, grommets, nasal & sinus surgery)
- Common ENT conditions explained in plain language
- Our anaesthetists
Feedback on these resources, or requests for additional topics, is always welcome.
Stay in touch
Letters back to referring GPs are sent securely after each consultation and following any procedure. If you’ve changed practice or your secure messaging details have changed, please let us know so correspondence reaches you cleanly.
