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For General Practitioners referring stable acute patients suitable for direct general medical admission or review in the hospital's rapid assessment clinic. Includes confidential phone consultation with an acute medicine physician, phone-based referral, rapid Emergency review for medical stability, assessment by the acute medicine physician, and a discharge summary sent to the referring practice. Patients may be referred to other Royal Melbourne Hospital services if an inpatient stay is not required. The service is not a replacement for routine specialist clinic appointments, subspecialty clinics, Residential In Reach or Chronic Wounds.