Mansfield District Hospital

Dialysis

The Mansfield Dialysis unit currently provides Dialysis Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for approximately six hours per rostered day.  The Unit has two Dialysis machines (Gambro AK95) and two Dialysis appropriate chairs.  As a service we are also able to provide respite to home Dialysis patients and holiday treatment to visitors to the community.  Because we are currently only Dialysing two permanent patients we have a certain amount of flexibility in accommodating visiting and respite clients.

The Dialysis unit and the permanent patient care is overseen by the North West Dialysis Service (NWDS) under the health care umbrella of the Royal Melbourne Hospital (Melbourne Health).  The Service is the largest of its kind in Australia, providing care for more than 33% of Victorian dialysis patients, with links to major metropolitan satellite centres and 23 affiliated regional centres in the North Western corridor of Victoria.

Over the past twelve months the service has had an increase in the number of holiday patients utilising our holiday treatment positions.  They include patients from Victoria and interstate as well as one patient from overseas. Over the past four years there has been a growing trend of holiday patients.