New Patient Appointment Waiting Times
Dr Le’s books are closed to new patients for the foreseeable future.
There is no anticipated date where he will be able to take new patients for treatment.
For existing patients and bookings made for new patients before 26 May 2023, Dr Le’s secretaries run a waiting list, and in the event of a cancellation, your appointment can be brought forward. This often occurs at short notice, so please have your referral from your GP ready.
Dr Le unfortunately does not have capacity to take over care for Vietnamese speaking patients who are looking for a new psychiatrist. You can enquire if any of the psychiatrists listed as Vietnamese speaking on via the RANZCP Find a Psychiatrist Directory have availability:
https://www.yourhealthinmind.org/
Medicolegal Appointment Waiting Times
Bookings for psychiatric IME assessments are available for late 2024 in Canberra, or via AVL. First availabiity for Sydney is early 2025. If you require a medicolegal appointment, please have your legal representative make contact with Dr Le via contact details below.
Dr Le does not take instructions from self-represented parties, and will not respond to enquiries not made by a legal representative.
Telehealth
Dr Le offers both face-to-face or telehealth appointments.
Consultations for both new and existing patients will continue to be offered by videoconference/telehealth for all patients. All initial appointments for new patients must occur face-to-face, unless your residential address is within a RRMA 3-7 zone.
If you wish to access telehealth, you will need to provide an email address so that a secure link (unique to you) can be emailed to you on the morning of your appointment date. You will need access to a device with a camera and audio, a reliable data connection, and a private space at your location for the appointment to proceed. Access to a second mobile telephone that is not being used for the telehealth consultation is desirable.
Non-attendance and Cancellation Fees
Dr Le does not charge a holding or booking fee for treatment services. If you are a new patient, it is understandable that you may have appointments booked with multiple psychiatrists, in case one doctor becomes available earlier than another.
If you no longer require your appointment, then please let Dr Le’s secretaries know, so that the spot can be offered to another person on the waiting list. Dr Le’s time is limited, and it is not fair to those on the waiting list if you do not attend and there is no opportunity to offer an unneeded slot to another young person or family.
Dr Le has previously waived non-attendance and late cancellation fees, however, this will change for all bookings and appointments from February 2021.
A payment authorisation form will need to be provided to his secretaries to confirm your appointment. You will not be charged a non-attendance or late cancellation fee if you attend, or cancel/reschedule your appointment with more than 48 hours notice.
The non-attendance fee is 100% of the consultation fee that would otherwise have been charged, plus GST.
GST is not charged on consultations as the provision of a health service does not attract GST. No Medicare Rebate applies to cancellation fees.
TREATMENT SERVICES
Dr Le provides a comprehensive psychiatric assessment and treatment service for children and adolescents of all ages, their families, and adults.
He sees children, adolescents and their families as outpatients only.
Adult patients are seen primarily on an outpatient basis, although where required, an inpatient service is offered at the Ramsay Clinic Wentworthville, where Dr Le is a Visiting Psychiatrist.
Treatment Enquiries | (02) 8833 2410
Dr Le offers psychiatric assessment and treatment services for the following patient groups:
– Children
– Adolescents
– Families
– Adults
– Perinatal and Infant
Dr Le sees outpatients at:
Ramsay Clinic Wentworthville Consulting Rooms
23-27 Lytton Street, Wentworthville, NSW 2145
Appointments can be made by calling (02) 8833 2410.
MEDICOLEGAL SERVICES
Dr Le offers forensic psychiatric assessments for adults, adolescents and families. Assessments in criminal, civil, care and protection, and family law settings are offered.
Dr Le has a special interest in assessments for adults and young people with mental illness in contact with the justice system, and parenting capacity in the care and protection setting.
Dr Le has provided expert witness evidence across all States and Territories in the Children’s Court, Local/County Court, District/Magistrate’s Court, Supreme Court and Federal Circuit Court jurisdictions in criminal and civil settings.
He holds an appointment as an Authorised Clinician with the Children’s Court Clinic (based at Parramatta Children’s Court), and provides assessments of parenting capacity for Court referred families.
Reports for the purposes of entry into the the Australian Defence Force, Australian Federal Police, or the NSW Police Force are offered on a case-by-case basis. Please contact Dr Le for more information.
Please contact Dr Le if a copy of his Court Biography is required.
Medicolegal Enquiries | legal@joeyle.com.au
Dr Le offers forensic psychiatric assessments for children, adolescents and adults for the following types of matters in all Court jurisdictions:
– Criminal jurisdiction (s14 and s19 diversion, fitness to plead, mental impairment/APNCR, Pre-Sentence, Parole board , Terrorism/High Risk Offenders)
– Civil (civil liability, negligence, testamentary capacity, Guardianship, NDIS/NDIA Appeals)
– Care & Protection (e.g., s90 applications, WWCC appeals)
– WorkCover NSW and WorkCover ACT
– Comcare
– NSW Motor Accidents MACA 1999 and MAIA 2017
Although based in Sydney and regularly visits Canberra, Dr Le is able to consider requests for medicolegal assessments in other parts of NSW or interstate.
Please ask your legal representative to contact Dr Le by email to legal@joeyle.com.au.
About Dr Le
Dr Le is a medical doctor, and completed his medical training at the University of NSW. He is a Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (FRANZCP), and has additional specialist qualifications in child, adolescent and family psychiatry, and forensic psychiatry. He holds a Master of Forensic Mental Health, awarded with Excellence from the University of NSW.
Dr Le is an fully accredited member of the RANZCP Faculty of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and Faculty of Forensic Psychiatry. He currently serves on several RANZCP Committees both in NSW and bi-nationally (Australia and New Zealand).
In addition to private psychiatric practice, Dr Le works in the public health sector and is currently appointed as a Psychiatrist and Authorised Clinician the Children’s Court Clinic (a part of the Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network), a Staff Specialist Child and Adolescent and Forensic Psychiatrist with the Justice Health and Forensic Mental Health Network in NSW, and a Visiting Forensic and Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist with the Canberra Health Services Forensic Mental Health Service, where he sees patients across the lifespan.
Dr Le has previously been a Staff Specialist Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist with the Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network at Westmead in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, and a Staff Specialist Forensic Psychiatrist with the Justice Health and Forensic Mental Health Network in NSW in adult custodial mental health. He has substantial experience in working in rural, regional and remote areas, both in person and by telehealth.
Dr Le is based primarily in the greater Parramatta health and legal precincts, and also sees patients for face to face medicolegal assessments in Canberra.
Qualifications – Dr Joey Q Le
MBBS BSc (Medicine) Hons (Psychiatry) FRANZCP
Master of Forensic Mental Health (Awarded with Excellence)
Cert Child Adol Psych
Cert Forensic Psych
Academic Appointments, Awards, and Honours
Dr Le currently holds academic appointments as a conjoint lecturer with the Faculty of Medicine, University of NSW, a Guest Lecturer with the internationally recognised Sydney Child Health Program, and regularly teaches at the NSW Institute of Psychiatry. He is actively involved in training for specialist psychiatry and paediatrics trainees, junior doctors and medical students.
He has published in journals and presented academic talks on a range of topics relating to child, adolescent and family psychiatry and forensic psychiatry, and is a reviewer for the peer reviewed medical journals Australasian Psychiatry and the Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health.
Dr Le has been awarded several academic prizes, including a fully funded 2013 NSW Institute of Psychiatry Training Fellowship, the 2015 Connell-Werry Prize from the Faculty of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry of the RANZCP, and the 2018 David Greenberg Prize in Forensic Mental Health from the University of NSW.
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