General Practice Services

The doctors can help you achieve a healthy and safe blood pressure level by giving advice on lifestyle changes, prescribing appropriate medications. The nurse can follow up and check your blood pressure.
Maintaining a good level of blood pressure is important to reduce the cardiovasular risk and other complications.

This is an assessment done to check your risk of having a heart attack, stroke or any other vascular event. This is done by asking you several questions, taking basic recordings and by doing a blood test.
We will enter these data into our calculator and get a score, which gives us your risk. There are other more effective ways of calculating your risk, but you will need to discuss this with your doctor.
Nurses will send you a reminder when you are due for this. You can do a blood test and make an appointment with your doctor/nurse for a checkup.
Everyone should get a check up and a blood test yearly after the age of 35 years.

All women who have ever been sexually active should have regular cervical smear tests every three years between the ages of 25 and 69. The smears will detect atypical cells. If these are left untreated can lead to a cervical cancer.

Very often these cells are made abnormal by a human papillomavirus (HPV) which is a sexually transmitted virus. Regular tests and treatment reduces the likelihood of this sort of cancer by around 90%.

You can book with our nurses for a smear. You will be notified by a text message when you are due.

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Time to Screen

We provide management and follow up of diabetes. If the diabetes is not controlled with oral medications, we will need to initiate insulin. Some doctors have the ability to initiate and titrate insulin.
We will also request you do do blood tests every 3 months, urine tests every 6 months and refer for eye testing for diabetic retinopathy every two years. Other diabetes related complications will be assessed yearly and will be referred to appropriate services.

Long term (Chronic) or ongoing medical conditions are diabetes, chronic obstructive airways disease, asthma, stroke, hypertension, depression, gout and many other medical conditions which needs regular check ups, blood tests and monitoring. Our doctors are experienced and are skilled on managing these.
We perform a cardiovascular risk assessment on all patients above a certain age and identify your riskk factors and advice and treat you as needed.
We also perform regular checks to detect cancers and their early signs.
We will refer you to other providers when needed and keep you uptodate with your health. Some patients recieve special government funding to manage their health conditions.

A Doppler ultrasound is a test that uses high-frequency sound waves to measure the amount of blood flow through your arteries and veins. This is used in the clinic to check the circulation in lower legs.
This is also used to listen to fetal heart sounds which can be heard after 12 weeks of gestation.

We provide a range of family planning services. Every family should discuss there options at some stage and review it every few years. Some of our doctors provide long term family planning options like Jadelle insertion, Mirena or Cu-IUCD. Please see our fees page for costs of these services.

We also have a long term contraception clinic run by the district health board.

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Family Planning

The flu viruses keeps changing. Therefore you require a new flu vaccine every year. Flu vaccines are available for all patients starting from last week of March to September every year. We give priority for enrolled and high risk funded patients at the beginning. We will update the website to exactly say who can come in for the vaccines and when.

It’s free for eligible patients. The other patients cans till get it for a low cost (Check fees).

You can book for a flu vaccine with the nurse. To book Click here or call 09 6252999.

For more information visit:

https://www.influenza.org.nz/
https://www.fightflu.co.nz/

If you are on Warfarin (Blood thinner) for a special medical condition, You are required to do a regular blood test to check its level (INR). You will have lab test form with you to give it to the lab when you are doing it. You will always keep a copy of it to present to the lab. You will have to keep your INR at a specific range, eg 2 to 3 or 2.5 to 3.5, depending on your health condition. If it s too low then the medicine will not give you enough effect and if its too high, it will increase your chances of a significant bleed. Therefore it is important to check it regularly.

You will have to adjust the warfarin dose depending on the level with advice from your doctor. The doctors and nurses will let you know at 6pm on the day you do the blood test, how much of warfarin to take and when you are going to do the next blood test.

For more information visit:

About Anticoagulants
About Warfarin and what food affects it
Taking your warfarin
Warfarin and INR

Vitamin B12, desensitisation injections and intramuscular injections are available through nurses once prescribed by our doctors.

Liquid nitrogen is an effective way to treat viral warts, sun damaged skin, skin tags and many benign cosmetic lesions. It is used under the guidance of your doctor. It can be applied as a spray or a swab. You may need one or more treatments depending on the lesion. It is repeated after two weeks. For warts removal of dead thick skin by the use of a sterile blade or prior acid treatment may improve the response to subsequent cryotherapy. The patient can file the wart by using a pumice stone. There is an additional fee for each freezing session.

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Dermnetnz

We all face difficult times and challenges some time in our lives. It is important that you discuss it with your family/whanau and your family doctor. We will recommend the best option for your situation. We would refer to other services if appropriate.

For more information visit:

Health.govt.nz – Where to get help

There is a growing population of Refugee groups in New Zealand. Experiences before migration has lead to high health needs on arrival. Long term physical and psychological trauma has lead to poor health outcomes. Adapting to a different lifestyle and additional financial issues will contribute to delayed seeking healthcare.

We as doctors should identify these group of people and encourage them to stay healthy and screen for diseases.

Our doctors are skilled at providing skin surgery, Ingrown nail, corn/wart surgery. The benign (Non cancerous) skin surgeries an have a long wait time in public system. The receptionists or nurses can give you information on which doctors to see for these procedures. These will usually need a double appointment booked. Please see our fees page for costs. It is best to consult a doctor first and discuss a management plan first along with the cost. The cost will also cover the cost or subsequent one to visits for wound review, dressing change and removal of stitches.

We use a nebuliser to deliver medicines for asthma or COPD exacerbations. Especially if it cannot be give via a spacer.

For more information visit:

Health Navigator – Nebuliser

All doctors are experienced in providing first trimester maternity care. Discuss with your doctor about the care and future options. Maternity care is funded for patients during the 1st trimester. Standard consultation fees apply for illnesses which are not a direct consequence of pregnancy.
During the second and third trimester, you should first call your midwife if you have any maternity related concerns. If you have been referred by your midwife, or the midwife cannot be contacted, then your visits which are directly related to pregnancy care may be funded.

Skin check is an important part of an annual health check. Please discuss with your doctor how you should have a skin/mole check. Some doctors in our clinic can do skin cancer/mole checks using a dermoscopy. If you have many moles its best to discuss how it should be monitored. Please talk to our friendly reception staff to book an appointment.

We provide a range of funded services to investigate, screen and treat sexually transmitted illnesses. We will discuss with you on how to minimize risk. The doctors are also competent in other sexual disorders and gender issues.
We provide immunization to high risk groups and offer screening.

Although you will be fit enough to live in New Zealand, this may not be enough for travel to certain countries. You may need protection from rabies or malaria for some destinations. Yellow fever vaccinations are only available at approved clinics.

Our doctors will be able to tell you what diseases you will need to be protected from in any named country and advise you on what you need.

We offer travel vaccinations except for rabies and yellow fever. Book with one of our doctors well ahead of your travel date. Please bring in your previous vaccination history.

For more information visit:

Centers for Disease Control & Prevention

Tympanometry is an examination used to test the pressure of the middle ear. We can get an idea about the middle ear function with a tympanometry. The doctor can perform this test to aid the diagnosis.

We would recommend an annual general check for all men above 35 years. The recommended annual testing would vary among ages, family history and personal background. This will include a general check and examination of the cardiovascular, respiratory, nervous, digestive and musculoskeletal systems. We will also do a general check in skin to see whether you will need a mole check or not. Blood tests can be performed as part of this. An ECG can be done to check your heart at an extra cost. We can discuss about your cardiovascular risk (Chance of having a heart attack or a stroke), and give our recommendation.

Children are entitled to 11 free health checks from birth to three years. These are done to ensure that children are growing and developing as well as possible. Initial checks are carried out by your lead maternity carer (LMC).

Between the ages of 4-6 weeks and three years, checks may be carried out by a Well Child Provider of your choice e.g. Plunket, Maori health provider, community nurse, a general practice team (doctor and practice nurse). Your LMC will be able to give you a list of Well Child Providers in your area.

For more information visit:

Ministry of Health – Well Child Tamariki Ora Visits

Our doctors and nurses are well experienced on wound management. We look after a wide variety of wounds varying from a superficial graze to a burn or ulcer. We do wound debridements, special dressings and refer to appropriate services if needed. Medical (Non injury related) wound dressings have an additional charge.

Cortisone (Steroid) injections are used to treat some joint pains, injuries and tendonitis. It involves injecting the steroid into the joint space or into the tendon sheath. Doctors can help you in deciding whether it will be helpful and effective and discuss possible side effects.
Some doctors in our clinic are skilled at performing these and you can check with our friendly reception staff to book with a doctor. Cortisone injections will have a separate fee.

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Health Navigator – Cortisone Injections

Smoking and second hand smoking is one of the preventable causes of deaths. Many significant health problems are a result of smoking.
The doctors can support you and guide you with smoking cessation. They can discuss the options available to you.
Alternatively, you can contact the Quit line for advice.

Spirometry is a tool that measures how effectively your lungs are working. It is able to show how much air lungs are able to hold (their volume) and how much air can be breathed in and out (inhaled and exhaled) which is called flow. This tool is used to assess damage caused by conditions like COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease – a group that includes bronchitis and emphysema), pulmonary fibrosis, cystic fibrosis and asthma. Results are shown on a graph called a pneumotachograph.

For more information visit:

Health Navigator – Spirometry

Iron deficiency is insufficient iron stores in the body. Iron is important to produce haemoglobin, a substance in red blood cells that helps it to carry oxygen. With iron deficiency, it may lead you to have tiredness and short of breath.
Oral/tablets can cause stomach upsets as a side effect, resulting in non compliance.
Some patients will be eligible for a iron infusion. You can discuss with a doctor on whether you are eligible for it and the cost for a funded iron infusion.

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Health Navigator – Iron Infusions

We administer Intravenous antibiotics for severe infections. This is done in the clinic to prevent a hospital admission. This usually does not cost extra as it’s funded if the patient meets the criteria.
Intravenous fluids are given for severe dehydration, vomiting and hyperemesis in pregnancy. This is done the same way as above.

We offer all covid related services. We are open to all patients. Our gp service and accident and emergency service both operate during the current alert level. We are working differently to keep everyone safe. Please see below for more details on how we operate at each alert level.

We are open for phone consultations and face to face consultations. Please note face to face consultations are mainly available monday to friday from 9 am to 5 pm if you are unwell with COVID-like symptoms. We perform covid swabs.

We provide covid-19 vaccines to all eligible patients. If you haven’t taken your covid vaccine, please visit the link below to find out more.

Our opening hours may differ. We have increased safety procedures to ensure patient and staff wellbeing. Please see below information on how we operate on each Alert Level.