Increased Eligibility - if your condition requires regular follow up, even if it’s not a “Disease” - including obesity, insulin resistance, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heavy painful periods, tricky menopause symptom, please ask us if you would benefit!

Care plans are your ‘roadmap’ of steps for managing your chronic illness. It is a set of activities agreed between you, the GP nurse, and your doctor about what activities will manage your illness best.

You are eligible for a care plan if you have a chronic illness that is likely to last 6 months or more or is cancer.
With a care plan you have a prescheduled appointment 3 monthly to review your progress, with the doctor and sometimes the nurse. They can only be done every 3 months.
Besides the benefit to improving your health, the benefit to you is these appointments are bulk billed as Medicare pays a higher rebate to encourage good preventative care.
With a chronic condition plan, a Medicare rebate for Allied Health of up to 5 sessions per calendar year (January – December)

We offer an over 75’s annual Health & Wellness Check
This is done in the month or 2 before your birthday, ideally when we can coordinate it with your driving medical.
Please bring your driving medical form and have an optometrist fill out the vision portion ahead of time.
This is a aimed at keeping you well and independent by picking things up before they become a problem.
It incorporates a review of medications as many older people are on medications that can interact and have side effects. A memory screen – so you can tell your children to get off your case, you’re just fine, a depression screen, and is a chance to discuss the legal and financial concerns that come with getting older.

Childhood vaccinations are booked with the nurse and the doctor. This is an important appointment as not only does your child receive vaccinations, this is your opportunity to speak to a doctor about your child’s development.

Please bring your bluebook with you as it is important to record the vaccination as well as update the child’s development.
As well as the bluebook check you will be given an “Ages and Stages” questionnaire to fill out. Again it helps us help you if this gets done.
Even if you think everything is going well sometimes important delays can be picked up and you may be referred for extra assessment. This doesn’t mean anything is wrong, but we find that there can be delays in getting help when we know you need it so early referrals are better.

Child, Older Person Checks, Chronic Disease Medicine