Anaesthetic cover your lists can rely on
Essential Anaesthetic Services provides anaesthetic cover for more than twenty surgeons across Bendigo and Central Victoria. With eleven FANZCA specialist anaesthetists, your lists are covered, your patients arrive prepared, and the financial consent conversation is handled properly before the day — so it never lands in your rooms.
What working with our group looks like
Your lists are covered — including when they aren't convenient
A group of eleven means depth: planned leave, conference season and sick days don't become your problem. We cover scheduled private lists across Bendigo's hospitals and day surgeries, plus after-hours and emergency procedures and the labour ward. If your operating expands, our capacity expands with it.
A consistent team, not a rotating roster
The group was formed in 2013 around a simple idea: surgeons operate best with a team they know. Wherever practicable, the same anaesthetist covers your lists — they learn your pace, your preferences and your patients, and theatre runs the way you want it to run.
Every specialty you operate in
Our anaesthetists cover the full breadth of private surgery in the region — orthopaedics, ophthalmology, ENT, plastics, urology, facio-maxillary, obstetrics and gynaecology, colorectal and general, vascular, endoscopy and sedation — including paediatric and dental lists. Meet the anaesthetists.
Pre-operative preparation that actually happens
Our online booking form captures each patient's health history, medications and fund details before the day. Your anaesthetist reviews it in advance, flags concerns early rather than in the anaesthetic bay, and patients arrive fasted, informed and ready — fewer day-of delays, fewer late cancellations on your list.
Financial consent handled properly — and away from your rooms
Every patient receives written informed financial consent for the anaesthetic before their procedure: the fee, the expected Medicare and fund contributions, and any gap, disclosed in advance. Patients who understand the anaesthetic account before surgery don't call your practice manager about it afterwards.
For practice managers
Booking with us is one step: direct your patients to the online booking form (a printable PDF is there too), or contact our team with list details. We handle the rest — patient contact, fee estimates, claiming with Medicare, health funds, DVA, WorkCover and TAC. One number, (03) 8595 5350, reaches a team that answers.
Adding a list, or want anaesthetic cover for your private operating? Call (03) 8595 5350 or email Team@essentialas.com.au — we'll come back to you promptly with how we'd cover it.
Talk to us about your lists
Whether it's one session a fortnight or a full operating week, eleven specialist anaesthetists means we can say yes — and keep saying yes.