Our practice provides a comprehensive general practice service. In addition to the routine services traditionally expected of General Practitioners, we provide many other services. Some of these are listed below.

General Medical Practice

Diagnosis and management of short-term illness; ECG; Immunisations; Insurance medicals; Cryotherapy; Minor operative procedures; Pre-employment and medical examinations; Care in hospital and nursing home; Marital family and relationship counselling; Bereavement counselling; Stress management; Monitoring of chronic illness; Sports injuries and Q-Fever Vaccinations.

Women's Health

Routine gynaecological and breast examinations; Family planning; Pregnancy testing and care.

Pap Smear & Antenatal Clinic

To provide an option for our female patients requiring an appointment out of hours, for a pap smear or antenatal visit, our midwife Melinda is available for appointments from 5.00pm to 7.30pm on every second Monday evening. Melinda will also be available for pap smears on Thursday mornings. All patients will be charged a for of $26.00 for the pap smear clinic with Melinda. Concession cardholders will also have to pay this fee and it can not be claimed from Medicare. Patients wishing to book for a pap smear with a doctor should always book a double appointment, this will be charged under a different fee structure and may vary.

Family Related Issues

Adolescent health issues, behavioral, developmental and parenting issues.

Childhood Immunisations

Immunisation is a simple, safe and effective way of protecting children against certain diseases. We are able to provide information on the current Australian standard childhood immunisation schedule and vaccinate accordingly.

Travel Medicine

Our surgery is a vaccination centre for Yellow Fever and we are linked to the Travellers Medical and Vaccination Centre website. For information on travel medicine consult with your doctor.

Health Promotion/Clinics

Healthy nutrition; weight reduction; smoking cessation; sexual health; over 75 year medicals; asthma education; 24 hour BP monitoring and foot care.

Repeat Prescriptions

Prescriptions for continuing medications require a consultation or you will be offered a '5 minute duty doctor' appointment on the day. A fee maybe payable for any paperwork processed by the doctor without a consultation.

Results

Patients are welcome to phone in for test results after 10.30am. Reminder: staff cannot give your results to anyone else unless we have written authority.

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