No. If you don’t have a referral at the time of booking your Initial Assessment, we will reach out to your treating team for more information. This will only be done with your consent.

No, you do not need a referral for these services. Even though you don’t need a referral to be booked in for these services, you may find that one of your Specialists, or GP will initiate the process of coming to Lift as they have identified you will benefit from the these services

Yes. We accept Referrals from all treating Oncology Practitioners, Surgeons, and GPs.

With your consent, we will communicate with your treating Doctors and Specialists to ensure they are all kept informed of the treatment you are receiving at Lift.

As we are a Private Facility, you need Private Health Cover to access our services. There will be some Out of Pocket costs, but you will need an Initial Assessment first, conducted by our Medical Practitioner, to determine the safest pathway for you.  Once the Assessment is complete, our Reception staff will advise on any Out of Pocket expenses.

Fees will be determined by the services you access and other factors such as your level of private health insurance and what other treatment you are also receiving (Chemotherapy, Radiotherapy).

If you are self-funded (uninsured), please request an Estimate of Expense from us.

The Estimate of Expenses will be based on the type of treatment and services required

No, unfortunately not. With an EPC (Enhanced Primary Care Plan) or a MHCP (Mental Health Care Plan), Medicare will cover some of the cost of your appointment with one of our Allied Health clinicians.  However, Medicare does not cover the full fee, and therefore there will be an Out of Pocket expense. We have a brochure at Reception which has further information.

Your Health Fund will notify us when one or more of the payments for your admission at Lift has been deducted because of an Excess. We will notify you, and send you a Tax Invoice to pay. We offer a payment plan over an 8 week period for those experiencing financial hardship.

If you have been referred to Lift for Exercise Medicine treatment, you will come to Lift for a 2 hour appointment. At this initial assessment, you will spend time with one of the Lift Medical Practitioners, followed by one of the Exercise Medicine Clinicians. The purpose of this multi-disciplinary initial assessment is to:

Determine if you have a clinical need for any of the services of Lift

It is very common not to know which of the services at Lift you actually need. During this multi-disciplinary assessment you will screened for a range of services.

You will then discuss with the Lift Medical Practitioner which of the services you would like to book.

Clinical recommendations will be made by the Medical Practitioners at Lift based on how you are presenting, however you will be in control of what you choose to book in for and when.

Complete an assessment to enable you to start Exercise Medicine Treatment

Before starting Exercise Medicine Treatment at Lift you need to undergo an assessment to determine your current medical status (including your medical history as well as your oncology status) and an assessment to determine your current physical status.

Following this assessment, the team at Lift will be able to determine what is the safest and most clinically appropriate way for you to engage in the exercise services offered at Lift.

As no two people are the same, this assessment is very important as we need to learn about you, so that we can provide you safe and appropriate exercise.

· Medicare Card

· Private Health insurance Card

· Partner or Friend

· Completed Patient forms

· Comfortable loose clothing

Yes. You can start Exercise Medicine Treatment at any point. Depending on how you are feeling, this may be at the point of diagnosis, during chemo, during radiotherapy, or after the completion of these treatments.

All services offered at Lift are designed to be delivered so that they are clinically relevant for you. The Medical team at Lift will let you know if/when it is safe for you to be exercising without medical support and will discuss the options that are most suited for you. One of those options is to keep coming to Lift as part of our Exercise Physiology service.

Exercise Medicine Treatment is Medically supported

You are looked after by a team made up of: Medical Practitioner, Physiotherapist and Exercise Physiologist.

Exercise Medicine Treatment is provided to you in Lift’s capacity as an Accredited Day Hospital. That is, you are admitted as a day patient and it is an in-patient service.

This form of exercise is generally of a high intensity and requires Medical support in order to ensure it is safe and appropriate

This form of Exercise is delivered with continual Medical monitoring to allow for safe and appropriate evidence based Exercise Treatment.

The dose of exercise delivered is determined by the latest evidence

You do not have a program or set of exercises that you complete, rather the team looking after you will assess how you present each time you come in, and then deliver safe, appropriate and evidence based treatment.

This form of exercise does not include any home exercises

Exercise Physiology

You are looked after by an Exercise Physiologist

This form of exercise is prescribed with consideration to all of your needs and any goals you have.

This form of exercise is delivered in an out-patient capacity.

There is no Medical monitoring during your exercise

You may have a program set for you which can be completed in a number of ways - with the Exercise Physiologist at Lift, at home, or at your local gym.

Lift is an Accredited Day Hospital. One of the ways oncology patients access our services is via our In-patient program. This pathway (as assessed by our Medical Practitioner) is for those patients who are undergoing treatment, and/or have other medical reasons they need close monitoring. It is important that you are safe whilst doing your Exercise Treatment, and being admitted as an Inpatient during your time in our Day Hospital is one of the clinical pathways available to you to allow this

Our oncology patients are vulnerable. It is important that prior to your Exercise Treatment, our Medical Practitioner performs a series of health checks to ensure it is safe and clinically appropriate for you to exercise when you come to Lift.

Your individual Exercise Treatment will be prescribed and delivered by our Clinical Team. Please allow 2 hours for Exercise Medicine Treatment

Unlike having surgery, or taking certain medication, exercise needs to be something you continue with in order to get all of the benefits it has to offer.

The staff at Lift will talk to you about how you can achieve this as part of the service offered at Lift. Just because you need to keep exercising, that doesn’t mean it has to be at Lift.

For most people, Lift offers expert Exercise Treatment during a time in which they would otherwise be unable to exercise safely in any other setting.

When this changes, the way in which you exercise may change as well.

The evidence based guidelines around exercise in the oncology population are very clear. For most people to achieve the therapeutic dose of exercise, they will need to exercise 3 times per week.

Unfortunately, the majority of people with cancer do not come anywhere near these guidelines. In coming to Lift, it is our job to connect you with the correct dosage of exercise to ensure you are able to access the benefits of this treatment.