Club foot

Criteria to access public outpatient services

CategoryCriteria
Category 1
Recommended to be seen within 30 calendar days.
  • Newly diagnosed, structural club foot

Category 2
Recommended to be seen within 90 calendar days.

  • Positional talipes or metatarsus adductus not responding to physiotherapy treatment
  • Recurrent club foot affecting ambulation

Category 3
Recommended to be seen within 365 calendar days.

  • Recurrent club foot not affecting ambulation

Information to include within a referral

Required

  • Reason for referral
  • Details of the presenting condition, including evolution of symptoms and their duration
  • Provisional diagnosis
  • Patient health summary (such as relevant medical history, relevant investigations, current medications and dosages, immunisations, allergies and/or adverse reactions), including specifically:
    • passively correctable or positional club foot

If available

  • Nil​

Important information for referring health professionals

If there is a change to a patient’s condition while waiting for their appointment, referring health professionals may further investigate and manage the situation, or send an updated referral to the outpatient service. Where there are significant concerns about a patient's condition, referring health professionals may check HealthPathways for urgent/same day advice or contact the relevant clinical team.


 

Current as at: Monday 23 March 2026
Contact page owner: System Purchasing