Specialist Sleep Care for Your Patients
Our practice is unique in that we offer sleep studies as a standalone service. Patients are not required to have sleep consultation to access sleep studies.
We accept referrals for sleep studies (with or without sleep consultation), sleep dentistry and sleep psychology.
How we work with referrers
New Sleep accepts referrals for home sleep studies, consultations with our sleep and respiratory physician, oral appliance therapy with our sleep dentist, and sleep psychology services. We also partner with a local hospital based sleep laboratory and local CPAP providers to provide the whole spectrum of sleep disorder diagnosis and treatment. We are able to see your patient from consultation, diagnosis, to treatment and efficacy testing. We are also happy to facilitate GP led care by providing diagnostic and treatment options.
Sleep consultation with sleep & respiratory physicians
Dr Gordon will accept referrals for all sleep disorders, including sleep disordered breathing, hypersomnia disorders, insomnia and circadian rhythm disorders, sleep movement disorders and parasomnias. Dr Gordon will also accept referrals for patients with comorbid sleep and respiratory disorders.
Home sleep diagnostics
New Sleep provides high quality home sleep studies with specialist-trained sleep technicians who will set the patient up at our premises. This allows us to obtain high quality home sleep testing which is comparable with in-lab testing. Our team is specialist-led and undergoes regular quality control to ensure our studies provide high quality, accurate diagnostic information.
To qualify for Medicare funding, patients will need to have completed the appropriate screening questionnaires prior to the study, found on our sleep study referral form. Patients not meeting Medicare criteria can still access Medicare funding for studies but only after consultation with a sleep physician, or may elect to pay privately.
Complimentary Care
In addition to behavioural and medication management of sleep disorders through our sleep consultations, New Sleep also facilitates a range of other treatment options:
CPAP
Dr Gordon can prescribe CPAP with trials facilitated through our partnership with local CPAP providers, who provide careful patient-centred trials.
Patients can then go on to purchase their own machine or Dr Gordon can arrange Enable NSW funding should the patient meet the criteria.
Mandibular Advancement Splints (MAS)
Dr Li provides oral appliance therapy at our premises and accepts referrals from GPs, specialists and other allied health professionals. Patients need a recent sleep study, or Dr Li can arrange one; however, there will be no Medicare funding for this.
Please see our oral appliance referral form.
Sleep Psychology
Our psychologists use proven therapies such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I), to assist in the management of a range of sleep disorders.
For medicare funding, a mental health care plan or chronic disease management plan are required noting insomnia is an eligible condition. Our psychologist will also see DVA, workcover and privately funded patients.
Please see our sleep psychology referral form.
Hypersomnia & Narcolepsy
Dr Gordon is experienced in the treatment of complex hypersomnia and narcolepsy cases and will initiate stimulant treatment where clinically indicated, sharing care with GPs once the patient is clinically stable.