Multidisciplinary Foot Clinic
A multi-disciplinary service, caring for people with high risk foot conditions, including the culturally responsive Telehealth Foot Service run within regional, rural and remote communities.
Phone TQEH Podiatry
8222 6621
Phone High Risk Foot Coordinator
0481 155 858
What we do
The Multidisciplinary Foot Clinic is a specialist unit focused on the prevention of foot and lower limb amputations in patients with complex medical conditions.
The service provides daily inpatient and outpatient services at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (TQEH), The Royal Adelaide Hospital (RAH) plus regular care of inpatients at Hampstead Rehabilitation Centre.
Podiatry part of Allied Health, is the primary contact for the Multidisciplinary Foot Clinic.
Clinics operate weekly at both RAH and TQEH.
The RAH is the triage hub for all Podiatry, Multidisciplinary Foot Clinic and Telehealth Foot Service referrals.
Where to find us
The Multidisciplinary Foot Clinic is located on Ground floor, Allied Health Building.
Resources
This page was last updated 15 May 2025.
Make a deadly choice. Healthy feet – healthy you.
The Telehealth Foot Service aims to support patients, their family and carers, and community health providers living in regional, rural, remote and isolated locations.
We help in the management of acute diabetes related foot complications, in order to reduce lower limb amputations.
This service is triaged out of RAH, learn more about what we do and how to access the service.
This page was last updated 15 May 2025.
We accept written referrals from GPs and medical specialists.
Emailed or faxed referrals are preferred.
Patients requiring immediate assessment, outside of business hours, should be sent to the Emergency Department.
We have Rapid Access (same day) appointments available Monday – Friday. These appointments are triaged based on clinical urgency.
Telehealth appointments are available as co-consult with a local clinician and patient, for those who are unable to attend face-to-face clinics.
All referrals are triaged through the RAH.
Referral guidelines
Urgent:
- Foot wound deep to tendon/bone
- Foot wound in the absence of pedal pulses
- Foot wound not healing after 4 weeks of appropriate treatment
- Known or suspected acute Charcot neuroarthropathy
- Local (moderate) foot infection (e.g. cellulitis/osteomyelitis).
Semi-urgent:
- Foot wound with no signs of clinical infection
- Ingrown nail in high-risk patient (non-infected).
Send to Emergency Department:
- Foot wound with systemic signs of illness (e.g. sepsis)
- Critical Limb Ischaemia.
Note: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are classified as at high risk of foot complications and therefore will be provided appointments for both active foot ulceration and preventive care.
Access to an Aboriginal Health Practitioner via The Hub is available on request, to support culturally safe care within our service.
Referrals should include:
- patient details - address, date of birth, contact phone number, Medicare number, pension card
- reason for referral
- relevant clinical history of the patient
- list of current medications
- current treatment regimen
- recent relevant test results – x-ray, pathology, etc
- referrer's name and contact details.
This page was last updated 15 May 2025.
This page was last updated 15 May 2025.
This page was last updated 15 May 2025.