Health assessments play an important role in health, both in screening for risk and providing an opportunity for early intervention.
These are a FULLY bulk-billed service, so there is no out of pocket cost to you.
Your health assessment includes both a consultation with the nurse and an appointment with your regular GP.
Annual 75+ health assessment
The 75yo+ health assessment is a comprehensive assessment of physical, psychological and social well-being for those aged 75 and over. This assessment offers preventative health care and education to support patients to remain healthy within their home environment. This health assessment is recommended annually for all qualifying patients regardless of health status. Annual base-line measure assists with early detection and intervention to ensure health and well-being for patients within their later years of life.
This assessment may include:
45-49 health assessment
Specifically for patients aged between 45 and 49 years (inclusive) who are at risk of developing a ‘chronic’ disease. This may be due to lifestyle factors such as smoking, physical inactivity, excess weight, biomedical risk factors where there is no outward sign of a problem (such as high blood pressure and high cholesterol) or simply a family history of chronic disease.
This health check assists with the timely detection and prevention of chronic disease and enables early intervention strategies..
Aboriginal & Torres Strait Island health assessment
This health assessment is aimed at ensuring that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people receive primary health care matched to their needs, by encouraging early detection, diagnosis and intervention for common and treatable conditions that cause morbidity and early mortality. It includes an assessment of the patient’s health, including their physical, psychological and social well being. It also assesses what preventive health care, education and other assistance should be offered to the patient to improve their health and well being.
Maintaining good health throughout a lifetime is one of the best ways to prevent disease occurring in the body and enjoy quality of life as old age approaches.
Our GP’s can help detect and treat disease early, to reduce the risk of a disease becoming serious, debilitating or fatal.Preventive health checks include:
General
Women
Men
Chronic Disease Management (CDM) in General Practice involves appropriate prevention, early identification and best practice management strategies to treat existing chronic conditions.
This is a FULLY bulk-billed service, so there is no out of pocket cost to you.
Your health assessment includes both a consultation with the nurse and an appointment with your regular GP.
An appointment is booked with our nurse, who will discuss your chronic illness and develop a care plan that will assist you to reach optimal health outcomes. This may include referrals to allied health professionals such as physiotherapy, podiatry, dietitian, diabetes educator, exercise physiologist, audiology and/or psychology. Once the care plan is in place you will be eligible to receive 5 medicare supplemented visits to Allied Health Professionals best suited to your care needs. Our Nurse is pivotal in assessing, planning, screening, identifying and facilitating care for patients.
Your GP will then consult with you to discuss the outcomes, goals and objectives of your care plan. It is also a valuable opportunity to find out what services are available within your local area to assist you with your care and independence and how to access these services.
Immunisations are a safe and effective way of protecting us against the most serious infections before we come in contact with them in the community.
Immunisations not only protect your child/yourself, but also others in the community, by reducing the spread of diseases.
Healthology Medical Centre can administer those vaccines funded under the National Immunisation Program for children and adults.
We also offer seasonal "flu" vaccinations which commence around March/April each year.
Our Risdon and Rokeby Medical Centres offer Pfizer vaccinations for those that are eligible.
Improving the health and well-being of Australian children, and promoting early detection of lifestyle risk factors, delayed development and illness is important in ensuring a healthy childhood which leads to a long healthy life. Even though there are no guarantees, we believe that tracking your child’s health, and any changes to it along the way, is important.
We offer general health checks and childrenhood vaccinations.
Immunisation protects children against a range of preventable and life-threatening diseases and infections. Some recommended vaccines are funded by the government. Routine immunisations for children under four include; chickenpox, hepatitis B, measles, meningococcal AWCY, mumps, polio, pneumococcal, rubella, tetanus and whooping cough.
An Aboriginal & Torres Strait Island health assessment is aimed at ensuring that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people receive primary health care matched to their needs, by encouraging early detection, diagnosis and intervention for common and treatable conditions that cause morbidity and early mortality. It includes an assessment of the patient’s health, including their physical, psychological and social well being. It also assesses what preventive health care, education and other assistance should be offered to the patient to improve their health and well being.
This is a FULLY bulk-billed service, so there is no out of pocket cost to you.
We provide a range of women’s health services including but not limited to:
We provide a range of men’s health services including but not limited to:
Louise Broadhead (BSc Hons Podiatry) will be visiting fortnightly.
Originally from the UK, Louise moved to Tasmania in 2010. She treats a range of podiatry conditions.
Following review by your GP, we can facilitate a range of minor surgical procedures in our well-equipped treatment rooms.
These procedures may include:
Minor procedures require a longer consult. Please ensure you advise our reception staff upon making an appointment so that we can ensure adequate time is scheduled with your doctor.
We can complete health checks such as drivers license medical assessments, insurance medicals, pre-employment medical and return to work.
Healthology Medical Centre provides support to individuals with workers compensation.
To make a claim for compensation, an injured worker needs to obtain a workers compensation medical certificate from a GP. Our GPs can assist with assessing an injured worker’s capacity for work, identifying any medical restrictions, identifying any suitable alternative duties and developing return to work plans.
Please advise our receptionist when booking an appointment for workers compensation.
Skin Checks
Our doctors are able to provide mole and skin cancer checks. Your doctor may require referring you to a specialist if there are concerns regarding a mole’s appearance and/or location.
Many moles and skin lesions are able to be treated within our centre. Our treatment room is equipped to provide minor surgical procedures including mole biopsies, complete surgical removal of moles, and cryotherapy of moles and warts.
Dressing & Wound Management
We are able to provide suturing treatment of simple lacerations. Complex wounds and injuries may require referral to the closest emergency department based on the doctor’s assessment. Our highly experienced nursing staff can manage all other minor wounds.
Mental Health Care Plans
A Mental Health Care Plan is a plan composed by your doctor for the treatment of a mental health problem over time.
In order to prepare a Mental Health Care Plan your doctor will need to work with you in order to assess your mental health, work out what help you may need, set goals and choose the treatment that would be best for you. Your doctor will also discuss treatment options and advise you about any other services that might benefit you. The plan may also include what to do in a crisis, or how to prevent a relapse.
Once you and your doctor have agreed on your goals and what you need to do to achieve them, your doctor will write out a Mental Health Care Plan. Preparing the plan may take a number of visits.
These plans allow you to get up to 10 free sessions with a professional either of your choice or the Doctors recommendation.
Please wear a face mask and advise reception if you have covid-19 respiratory symptoms. All other patients are strongly recommended to wear a face mask.
We do not conduct COVID-19 testing at our centres, for testing, please head to: https://www.coronavirus.
