The Audiology Clinic provides outpatient diagnostic hearing assessment of hearing loss and related disorders for infants, children and adults.

How to access this service

We accept referrals from the following health professionals:

  • Maternal and Child Health Nurse
  • Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) specialists
  • Medical Practitioners (GP) or other medical e.g. Oncology
  • Victorian Infant Hearing Screening Program (VIHSP)
  • Speech pathologists, audiologists and other allied health professionals

Your appointment

Our clinics is located in the Clinical Services Campus.

You can either scan your appointment letter or Medicare card at the check-in kiosk to register your arrival. You will be directed to provide a contact mobile phone number.

This will enable us to inform you via text message when your appointment is drawing near.

Patients are seen strictly in order of appointment time. We do our best to run on time, however delays do occur and we therefore recommend you allow at least two hours for your appointment.

What to bring

What to bring

  • Your appointment letter
  • Your Medicare card         
  • A list of medications that you are currently taking
  • Any relevant reports, test results or x-rays from services outside Bendigo Health
  • Any relevant cards (Health Care Card, Aged Pension, DVA)
  • Any special items listed on your appointment letter

Commonly asked questions

  • Does Bendigo Health Audiology offer a hearing aid service? No
  • Does Bendigo Health Audiology provide vestibular (balance) assessments? No

Bendigo Hospital

Access via Mercy Street

Location

100 Barnard Street, Bendigo, VIC, 3550

Phone

03 5454 8783

How to refer your patient

We accept referrals from health professionals including:

-      Maternal and Child Health Nurse

-      Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) specialists

-      Medical Practitioners (GP) or other medical e.g. Oncology

-      Victorian Infant Hearing Screening Program

-      Speech pathologists, Audiologists and other allied health professionals

 

Internal Referrals

Internal referrals (from other departments within Bendigo Health) can be sent via ePR or through the Bendigo Health Referral Centre.

 

External Referrals

Referrals from external health professionals can be made to the Bendigo Health Referral Centre using:

-      The Health Communities and Continuing Care GP referral form (Bendigo Health intranet) – indicating Audiology

-      Bendigo Health paediatric Speech Pathology and Audiology form

-      SCTT form (below)

-      Other written referral letter, which must include: reason for referral and relevant history, name, date of birth, address, phone number, parent/carer details, GP details, ATSI status, Medicare number, consent to referral

Clinic service overview

Audiologists at Bendigo Health offer diagnostic assessment for infants, children and adults including:

  • Pure tone audiometry (including visual reinforcement audiometry and play audiometry)
  • Speech audiometry (speech discrimination assessment)
  • Impedance audiometry (middle ear function)
  • Site of lesion Auditory Brainstem Response (ABR)
  • Diagnostic infant hearing tests (evoked potentials threshold determination, including ABR, Auditory Steady State Response (ASSR))
  • Otoacoustic emissions

Problems may arise from

  • Refer result from Victorian Infant Hearing Screening Program (VIHSP) from birth

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    Delayed speech and language development in children
  • Chronic middle ear disease
  • Ear and/or head trauma
  • Sudden or gradual hearing loss
  • Ototoxic medications
  • Family history of hearing loss
  • Illnesses such as meningitis, encephalitis and bell’s palsy

Specialist Clinics

Allied Health Specialist Clinics for ear health, vestibular, swallowing, and upper airway conditions

GPs can refer patients to any of the following services via the Bendigo Health Referral Centre (BPAC or fax):

-      Vestibular physiotherapy

-      Speech pathology – swallow/airway 

-      Audiology - ear health (refer for new/unexplained hearing loss, tinnitus)

Bendigo Hospital

Access via Mercy Street

Location

100 Barnard Street, Bendigo, VIC, 3550

Phone

03 5454 8783