Endovascular clot retrieval referral centres in NSW

The following table provides contact details for the six NSW endovascular clot retrieval (ECR) services. All districts and networks should follow their established referral pathways, including referral to interstate services where appropriate.

* Districts and networks that refer to Westmead in hours should contact any 24/7 service for after-hours services.

For John Hunter Hospital ECR service

Clinicians within Hunter New England, Central Coast and Mid North Coast local health districts seeking assistance or referring into the service at John Hunter Hospital should follow the pathway of contacting the 24/7 acute stroke service neurologist. The on-call acute stroke service neurologist will triage the patient, if deemed appropriate, to the John Hunter Hospital Interventional Neurology Service.

For Sydney metropolitan ECR services

Clinicians seeking assistance or referring into one of the metropolitan Sydney services should note the following:

• If district or network clinicians referring into one of the metropolitan Sydney services experience any difficulties or delays in transferring a patient deemed clinically appropriate for ECR procedures, this should be escalated to the relevant ECR facility executive coordinator.
• The ECR facility Executive Coordinators are outlined in the table below.

Note: Stroke patients not suitable for ECR should follow existing patient retrieval pathways as per PD2018_11 Adult Critical and Specialist Care Inter-Hospital Transfer