Transplantation is a highly complex field of medicine that requires different healthcare professionals coming together as a team to provide collaborative and patient-centric approach to care planning and provision. However, our existing infrastructure and work-processes at the moment does not allow the efficient delivery of multidisciplinary care. Patients have to visit different professionals at different times and places which adds to the inconvenience already experienced as a patient receiving chronic treatment.
The Transplant Centre seeks to address this problem by providing a one-stop convenient healthcare facility that allows patients with a common condition e.g. transplant to seek the care and follow-up required of them. It allows various healthcare professionals involved in transplantation care to converge at one location and work together with integrated work-processes to provide the best patient experience in an ambulatory setting.
The other advantage of the Transplant Centre is that we have dedicated infrastructure resources to provide transplant care rather than compete with existing infrastructure that is also needed to use for other patient care services.
Service
The transplant centre have clinics, counselling rooms, a phlebotomy cubicle and procedure unit for:
- Pre- and post- transplant education by transplant coordinators
- Donor and recipient assessment for transplantation
- Post-transplant follow-up care
- Dedicated transplant pharmacist clinics
- Dedicated ambulatory follow-up programs by dieticians and physiotherapists
- Phlebotomy services
- Outpatient biopsy of kidney transplants
- IV drugs infusions
- IV blood product infusions
