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 SNORE AUSTRALIA provides BULK-BILLED, full "level 1" sleep studies of the highest international standard up to 7 days per week. We have conveniently located sleep clinics across South-East Queensland in Meadowbrook, Caboolture, Birkdale, Ipswich and on the Gold Coast as well as Lismore in Northern NSW , Cairns in Northern Queensland and Latrobe, Tasmania.
SNORE Australia exists to provide high-quality sleep studies, free of any gap payment or accommodation charge, so that there is no cost-barrier or need for private hospital medical insurance for any patient to achieve optimal medical care for a sleep problem. We also offer private hospital in-patient sleep studies for private, self-funded and DVA patients.
SNORE Australia believes that as with most other common medical problems, the long-term management of sleep disorders is best provided by the patient's treating General Practitioner, particularly as this often requires life-long advice and support regarding life-style issues. To make this possible, SNORE Australia first assesses each patient's symptoms and if appropriate, proceeds to full diagnostic polysomnography (PSG) - and CPAP titration if required. Detailed management recommendations are then provided to the referring doctor, together with extensive advice and educational material specific to the patient's disorder(s).
Where necessary, we speak to the patient and/or the referring doctor in order to clarify clinical issues. We also offer specialist clinical consultations to all patients at the recommended AMA fee.
SNORE Australia also has facilities in some of its centres to perform full electroencephalography (EEG) in parallel with formal overnight polysomnography e.g., for patients with nocturnal "fits and funny turns". Routine EEG's are also available by day and are bulk-billed.
Dr John Corbett (right) graduated from the University of Queensland Medical School as the Dux of the course, before traveling to Oxford as the Queensland Rhodes Scholar in 1965. He spent nine years studying neurology and neurophysiology at Oxford, much of this as an Oxford Don, before becoming a Visiting Professor at Harvard University and then a practicing Neurologist in Australia.
In 1994, Dr Corbett studied sleep disorders as a Visiting Scientist at Johns Hopkins University, and has practiced ever since in Queensland in Neurology and Sleep Medicine. He is one of only three Neurologists in Australia who is also a Sleep Physician. He is the Queensland Patron of the Sleep Disorders Association of Australia. In April 2003, he was awarded a Centenary Medal for "Distinguished Service to Medicine".
Dr Sean Tolhurst is a Thoracic and Sleep Physician. He graduated first in Science and then in Medicine, with leading honours. He has been appointed as the Director of Clinical Training at the Greenslopes Private Hospital and is actively involved in the education and training of the next generation of doctors with his work through the University of Queensland and Griffith University medical schools.
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