Appointments

Dr Ch’ng provides services for a wide range of conditions, including facial skin cancers, parotid tumours, facial aesthetic surgery, facial palsy and head and neck cancers. Dr Ch’ng sees patients in her rooms at Camperdown, North Sydney and St Leonards.

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Making an appointment

To make an appointment, please contact Dr Ch’ng’s secretary on 02 8514 1460. When you call, please be prepared to answer some questions regarding the type of service you are looking to access. These questions help us to understand how urgent  the appointment is, so that we can schedule your appointment accordingly. If relevant, we may ask you to fax or email through any biopsy or imaging results that you have. This will allow Dr Ch’ng to plan ahead for your appointment.

Please let us know if you are travelling a long distance, or from a regional or remote location, to see Dr Ch’ng. Where possible, we will endeavour to organise consultations, investigations, and treatment so that they can be performed on a single visit (e.g. all within a few days).

Please let us know if you are seeking a second opinion from Dr Ch’ng. We appreciate that patients need a second opinion sometimes and this will help us to better understand of your needs.

Your first appointment

Prior to your first appointment, you will need to obtain a referral from your general practitioner or specialist. We prefer this to be faxed or emailed through before the day of your consultation.

You would also have been provided with an electronic link to a Registration Form with information on your general health, medications, allergies etc. Please complete this prior to your consultation.

Please bring the following to your first appointment:

• Your Medicare card

• Any health fund details

• Any pension or health care card details

• Any relevant Xrays or scans

• Any reports of biopsies or test results related to your condition

• A list of your current medications

• If you have had recent surgery or treatment, it is helpful to bring the contact details of your previous surgeon or specialist

• If you have any significant medical conditions and see other specialists or doctors for these, bring as much information as you can, as it may be relevant in planning surgery

• If you cannot speak English well and need help understanding or explaining yourself, bring along a relative or friend who can translate for you

• A list of any questions you may have

Dr Ch’ng allocates longer appointment times for new patients, patients seeking a second opinion and consultations for aesthetic surgery.

Dr Ch’ng strives to adhere to appointment times. Dr. Ch'ng has numerous complex cases due to this delays may occur. Dr. Ch'ng values medical consultations and apologises for any inconvenience caused.

REGISTRATION FORM

Personal Details
Name
Address

If entering a landline number, ensure you include the area code.

If I need to be contacted regarding my appointment and/or treatment I may be contacted via the following means:

Account Details

10 Digits

i.e. Digit next to patient's name on Medicare card.

MM/YYYY

Next of Kin

Name

If entering a landline number, ensure you include the area code.

Address

Emergency Contact

Name

If entering a landline number, ensure you include the area code.

Address
Medical History Past and Present
Do you suffer from or have ever suffered from:
Are you a:
How much alcohol do you consume in a week?

Please specify the NAME OF DRUG, STRENGTH & DOSAGE

Care Team
Address

If entering a landline number, ensure you include the area code.

Please specify name, speciality and suburb of practice.

Sydney Surgical Oncology and Reconstructive Surgery Database

1. Introduction

You are invited to contribute your health information (this could be health information pertaining to your medical condition, past medical history and information on future planned procedures, or personal information, pertaining to your demographic group) to a database of patients undergoing oncological surgery and reconstruction at Chris O’Brien Lifehouse, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and Mater Hospital.

Researchers will use the information collected in this database to help better understand and improve oncological surgery and reconstructive procedures and assist in developing future clinical research.

The database is being established and overseen within this institution by A/Prof Sydney Ch’ng from the Department of Head and Neck Surgery.

The database is to be maintained within the study sites (Chris O’Brien Lifehouse, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Mater Hospital) by A/Prof Sydney Ch’ng (Department of Head and Neck Surgery), Dr Tam Quinn (Department of Head and Neck Surgery), and Miss Amanda Yung (medical student, Sydney Medical School).

Data from this database may be used for studies conducted by Miss Amanda Yung (with separate ethics approval) as part of the requirements for a Master of Philosophy (Medicine and Health) degree, under the supervision of A/Prof Sydney Ch’ng.

2. Contributing to the database

If you agree to contribute to this database, you will not be required to do anything other than sign the Patient Consent Form. Relevant information will then be obtained from your medical record and stored in the database. This will include information on the type of cancer that you have; the procedure that you have undergone and details of the techniques that were used in your surgery.

In the database your health information will be identified with a number to protect your privacy. Your name will be recorded in connection with this number, but information about you will only be linked to your number

Your information will always be treated confidentially, and only A/Prof Sydney Ch’ng (the database custodian), her assistants and authorised researchers will have access to it.

All data will be stored on a secure server hosted by the Sydney Local Health District (SHLD) with daily backups as per SHLD policy. Only the investigators of this study will be able to assess this data.

Data from this database may be used in future studies with separate ethics approval. Your data will only be made available to the investigators named in this Information Sheet, or other investigators affiliated with the SHLD approved by the Database Custodian, A/Prof Sydney Ch’ng. Analysis of any data extracted from the database may be conducted at any of the study sites by the named investigators or approved investigators.

3. Risks

This study is not expected to result in any physical or psychological injury. The pre-surgery consultation may be made longer by 10-15 minutes due to the need to upload information to the database, but this is not expected to result in any risks. No additional information not covered in the pre-surgery consultation will be required from you.

4. Benefits

While we intend this database to be used to further medical knowledge and to improve oncological surgery and reconstructive procedures in the future, it may not be of direct benefit to you.

5. Costs

Contributing to this database will not cost you anything, nor will you be paid.

6. Voluntary Participation

Contributing to this database is entirely voluntary. You do not have to do so. If you do, you can withdraw your health information at any time without having to give a reason. Whatever your decision, please be assured that it will not affect your medical treatment or your relationship with the staff who are caring for you.

7. Withdrawal Process

If you decide to withdraw from this research project, you will need to notify a member of the research team (details listed under further information section below) and you will need to complete a withdrawal of consent form.

If you decide to leave the research project, the research team will not collect additional health information about you, although information already collected will be retained to ensure that the results of the research project can be measured properly and to comply with law. If you do not want your data to be included, you must tell the researchers when you withdraw from the project.

8. Confidentiality and length of data storage/data destruction

All the information collected from you for the study will be treated confidentially and will be stored on an online research database on a server hosted by the SHLD. Only A/Prof Sydney Ch’ng (the database custodian), their assistants and authorised researchers will have access to it. Access to this database is password protected and strictly monitored.

Data will be recorded using in a re-identified form using unique ID codes assigned to each participant. The database will be maintained until the end of 2032, after which the use of the database will be reviewed. Should the database be discontinued, the data contained will be retained in a de-identified form for 5 years before deletion.

Signed participant consent forms will be scanned into the database and the original form will be destroyed.

The study results may be presented at a conference or in a scientific publication, but individual participants will not be identifiable.

9. Future use of Data

The data collected in this project may also be used in future research studies. The results of these studies will contain de-identified data, which may be shared in the future with national and international collaborators, however the use of the data will be subject to ethics approval. You can indicate your agreement to this on the Participant Consent Form.

10. Further Information

When you have read this information, A/Prof Sydney Ch’ng will discuss it with you further and answer any questions you may have. If you would like to know more at any stage, please feel free to contact them on +61 2 8514 1460 or email sydney.chng@sydney.edu.au

This information sheet is for you to keep.

11. Ethics Approval and Complaints

The establishment of this database has been approved by the Ethics Review Committee (RPAH Zone) of the Sydney Local Health District. Any person with concerns or complaints about it should contact the Executive Officer on 02 9515 6766 and quote protocol number X21-0300.

Contribution to this database by patients at Chris O’Brien Lifehouse, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and Mater Hospital has been authorized by the Sydney Local Health District.

  • I have been made aware of the information that will be collected about me as part of this database and how this information will be used.
  • I have been made aware of the procedures involved in information collection of this database, including any known or expected inconvenience, risk, discomfort or potential side effect and of their implications as far as they are currently known by the researchers.
  • I understand that contributing my information to the database will allow the researchers to have access to my medical record, and I agree to this.
  • I understand that my information / data will be stored in a secure online database hosted on SLHD REDCap, for research and auditing purposes.
  • I understand that my de-identified data may be used for future research and I agree to this.
  • I have had an opportunity to ask questions and I am satisfied with the answers I have received.
  • I freely choose to contribute to the database and understand that I can withdraw my health information at any time.
  • I also understand that the database is strictly confidential.
  • I hereby agree to contribute my health information to this database which will be used for future research purposes and/or shared with other national / international collaborators.
  • I understand that any data that is used for related or future research, will first be reviewed and approved by an appropriately constituted Ethics Committee.

By signing below, I certify all information provided is true and correct to the best of my knowledge

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Get in touch

If you’d like to know more about our head and neck, plastic or skin cancer surgical services, or if you have a question for Dr Ch’ng, we’d love to hear from you.

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