Practice Information
Dr Cade’s rooms are located at Epworth Freemasons Private Hospital Suite 101, 320 Victoria Parade, East Melbourne.
These rooms are shared with Associate Professor Len Kliman, who is Dr Cade’s original and most significant mentor, and incidentally responsible for Dr Cade choosing obstetrics as a career.
Dr Cade will be on-call for your birth unless physically away. Weekend and holiday cover is shared with Dr’s Lionel Steinberg, Guy Skinner, David O’Callaghan and Megan di Quinzio. Dr Cade will often stay on-call for his own patients over the weekend, and will always make his patients aware if he is going to be away.
Bridget
Practice Manager
With decades of experience in healthcare administration, Bridget provides a crucial role in overseeing all practice operations, ensuring everything runs smoothly and efficiently.
Bridget has been managing the practice since 2014.
Louise (Lou)
Practice Midwife
Lou is a highly experienced midwife who has worked with Associate Professor Len Kliman for many years and now works with Dr Cade’s practice.
Lou provides comprehensive care to expectant mothers throughout their pregnancy and postpartum period.
Lou provides 1-1 appointments for patients to monitor the progress of pregnancy, and provide valuable guidance on pregnancy, labour, breastfeeding, recovery, nutrition, exercise, overall health and any other questions or concerns patients may have pre and post natal.
Lou focuses on patient centred care fostering a trusting relationship and helping to ensure a positive pregnancy and childbirth experience.
Sarah
Practice Midwife
Like Lou, Sarah is a highly experienced midwife who has worked with Associate Professor Len Kliman for many years and now works with Dr Cade’s practice.
Sarah provides comprehensive care to expectant mothers throughout their pregnancy and postpartum period.
Sarah provides 1-1 appointments for patients to monitor the progress of pregnancy, and provide valuable guidance on pregnancy, labour, breastfeeding, recovery, nutrition, exercise, overall health and any other questions or concerns patients may have pre and post natal.
Sarah’s focus remains on the patient experience and will always be available to help make the experience more positive.
Why choose private over public care?
The main reason to choose a private obstetrician is to guarantee a specialist is in attendance at your birth and to have your choice of which person this is.
Australia is very lucky to have a comprehensive public health system that is fully government funded and overall health outcomes are very good. However, the system is reliant on trainee doctors (interns, residents and registrars) providing the bulk of the care under supervision from specialists (in person or by telephone), you may also experience significant wait times in public care due to resource constraints.
You are unlikely to know, in a public hospital, who will be present at the birth of your baby until it happens nor if your immediate care will be led by midwives, junior doctors, senior doctors or a combination.
Choosing a private obstetrician allows you to have that choice of person and to develop a rapport and relationship. If an emergency decision is required during labour or birth, you have the confidence it is being made by a fully qualified specialist and someone you have met and known for a long period of time. It also means you have the security of 24-hour access to experienced clinical practitioners should you need it.
If you would like to have an appointment to simply discuss the pros and cons of private care, please call the rooms.