Innisfail Family Health

05/06/2025

Welcoming Dr Niloofar! Moved here from Iran with 5 years experience behind her. Appointments available Monday to Friday. 😀

19/02/2025

Welcoming 3 new doctors to Innisfail Family Health - Dr Jane, Dr Belle, and Dr Win.
Dr Jane comes from working as a GP in Brunei. Dr Belle and Dr Win have come from working in Queensland hospitals. Available generally Monday to Friday for consultations.

08/03/2023

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25/10/2022

Introducing and welcoming Dr Ian Denness to Innisfail Family Health. Ian is a very experienced skin cancer and skin doctor GP, and is moving from Sydney to be closer to family. He will be working from Tuesday to Friday, and will only be seeing people with skin or skin cancer issues.
Ian will be the second accredited skin cancer doctor in our practice, and in our region (https://www.skincancercollege.org/locate-a-doctor/).
If you need a skin check, or have a skin cancer or skin concern and would like to see him, please call Innisfail Family Health. He will be commencing from the 8th of November.

15/12/2021

We would like to welcome and introduce Dr Prasad. Dr Prasad has recently started working with us and is a great doctor who has moved south from Cairns work to here!

28/09/2021

Please see the latest advice in regards to visiting restrictions if you have been in the Brisbane or Moreton Bay area since 19 September 2021

If you have any symptoms, no matter how mild, please get tested at your nearest facility.

21/08/2021

🔴 Please, Far North Queensland, let's get prepared. Book your vaccination/jab/shot/immunisations against COVID-19 ASAP.

💉If you are not eligible for your jab at our clinic, you should call
☎️1800 861 863 and book your appointment at one of the QLD immunisation's hubs.

Translations:

✏ਕਿਰਪਾ ਕਰਕੇ, ਦੂਰ ਉੱਤਰੀ ਕੁਈਨਜ਼ਲੈਂਡ, ਆਓ ਤਿਆਰ ਕਰੀਏ. ਜਲਦੀ ਤੋਂ ਜਲਦੀ ਆਪਣਾ ਟੀਕਾਕਰਣ ਬੁੱਕ ਕਰੋ.

Fਜੇਕਰ ਤੁਸੀਂ ਸਾਡੇ ਕਲੀਨਿਕ ਵਿੱਚ ਆਪਣੀ ਜਬ ਦੇ ਯੋਗ ਨਹੀਂ ਹੋ, ਤਾਂ ਤੁਹਾਨੂੰ ਫ਼ੋਨ ਕਰਨਾ ਚਾਹੀਦਾ ਹੈ
001800 861 863 ਅਤੇ QLD ਟੀਕਾਕਰਣ ਕੇਂਦਰਾਂ ਵਿੱਚੋਂ ਕਿਸੇ ਇੱਕ 'ਤੇ ਆਪਣੀ ਮੁਲਾਕਾਤ ਬੁੱਕ ਕਰੋ

✏Пожалуйста, Крайний Север Квинсленда, давайте готовимся. Забронируйте вакцинацию как можно скорее.

💉Если вы не имеете права на укол в нашей клинике, вам следует позвонить
☎️1800 861 863 и запишитесь на прием в одном из центров иммунизации QLD

✏Thov, Far North Queensland, cia peb npaj. Sau koj daim ntawv txhaj tshuaj ASAP.

FYog koj tsis tsim nyog tau txais koj lub jab ntawm peb lub tsev kho mob, koj yuav tsum hu rau
18️1800 861 863 thiab sau koj daim ntawv teem sijhawm ntawm ib qho ntawm QLD kev txhaj tshuaj tiv thaiv kab mob

✏कृपया, सुदूर उत्तर क्वींसलैंड, चलो तैयार हो जाएं। जल्द से जल्द अपना टीकाकरण बुक करें।

💉यदि आप हमारे क्लिनिक में अपने जाब के लिए योग्य नहीं हैं, तो आपको कॉल करना चाहिए
️१८०० ८६१ ८६३ और क्यूएलडी प्रतिरक्षण केन्द्रों में से किसी एक पर अपना अपॉइंटमेंट बुक करें

✏
من فضلك ، فار نورث كوينزلاند ، دعنا نستعد. احجز لقاحك في أسرع وقت ممكن.

💉 إذا لم تكن مؤهلاً للحصول على ضربة بالكوع في عيادتنا ، يجب عليك الاتصال
☎️1800861863 وحجز موعدك في أحد مراكز التحصين في
QLD

✏Vă rog, Far North Queensland, să ne pregătim. Rezervați-vă vaccinarea cât mai curând posibil.

💉Dacă nu sunteți eligibil pentru jab la clinica noastră, ar trebui să sunați
☎️1800 861 863 și rezervați-vă programarea la unul dintre centrele de imunizare QLD

✏請，遠北昆士蘭，讓我們做好準備。 盡快預訂您的疫苗接種。

💉如果您沒有資格在我們的診所接受刺戳，您應該致電
☎️1800 861 863 並在昆士蘭州免疫接種中心之一預約

✏Por favor, Far North Queensland, vamos nos preparar. Reserve sua vacinação o mais rápido possível.

💉Se você não for elegível para sua vacina em nossa clínica, você deve ligar
☎️1800 861 863 e marque a sua consulta num dos centros de imunização QLD

13/08/2021

We are Pinky Trading today as well!!! Supporting Pink Tradie Support Crew - lets paint the town pink I (Samia) will be around some businesses in Town donating my gold coin for the Breast Cancer campaign.

07/07/2021

VACCINE UPDATE: We are extending Pfizer delivery into our rural communities with the establishment of vaccination sites at Mossman and Innisfail hospitals this week.💉🏥

These vaccine clinics are now open for eligible cohorts, with priority being given to Phase 1a and 1b groups, which includes healthcare workers, and those working in aged care and disability sectors.

COVID-19 vaccinations are by appointment 📆only, with no walk-ins.

Register and book 🌐at tinyurl.com/chhhsvaccine or 📞call 1800 861 863.

02/06/2021

Kennedy GPs meet with Minister over regional Doctor shortage

WITH GP clinics continuing to close around the Kennedy electorate due to a Doctor shortage, Bob Katter has convened a meeting with Federal Health Minister, Greg Hunt, Secretary of the Health Department, Dr Brendan Murphy, and three prominent doctors from the electorate - Dr Lisa Fraser (Gordonvale), Dr Grant Manypeney (Mareeba) and Dr Rod Catton (Innisfail).

The doctors have spent extensive hours working on a plan to address the doctor shortage crisis with immediate and long-term solutions presented to the Minister.

The reasons for the doctor shortage include underfunded incentives to attract young doctors to the regions, and a shortfall of international doctors due to Covid-19 border closures.

Gordonvale’s Dr Lisa Fraser said she was thrilled that the Minister saw that the situation was important enough to make time to hear their story and listen to their ideas.

“He was reassuring that rural was the next clear focus of the department, acknowledging that Covid-19 outbreaks and Covid-19 vaccination had consumed a large amount of their time and resources to this point, and rightly so,” she said.

“We discussed how telehealth items were a huge benefit to rural communities where distances and weather impact travel and accessing doctors. I recommended that all telehealth items continue, rather than be contracted to only 2 time-based ones.

“We also discussed how successful the vaccination program has been in general practice. Our practice has full clinics and zero wastage and are expanding numbers. Patients report that having a doctor at the site of vaccination builds trust and improves uptake.”

Dr Lisa Fraser said incentives for Aussie doctors and pathways for foreign doctors has worked to an extent, but it hasn’t been funded adequately to achieve the required outcome, especially in the past 10 years.

“The focus should be primarily on Australian junior doctors and GP trainees as both a short and long-term solution, with particular attention to properly funding the training program,” she said.

“This program has suffered severe chronic underfunding over the past 10 years. If you cut corners in training quality, you get inefficient spending, unsafe patient care and maldistribution.

“The investment for overseas doctors should focus on the processes that engage overseas doctors to avoid excessive waits and to support them through entry examinations with the goal of achieving minimum standards of clinical skills.

“Incentives for Australian training doctors to this point have been way out of the ballpark, financially. Previous programs have gone a little way in recruitment, but not nearly enough to be a real driver for change.”

Kennedy MP, Bob Katter said the Minister and Dr Brendan Murphy acknowledged the issue and he will continue to push them to make sure something is done.

“I think they now have a much better understanding of the rural medicine issues at hand, and there is now a way through in the short term,” he said.

“To attract Australian doctors, there has to be an extra $80,000 a year per doctor provided to doctors in rural private practices. The State hospital outpatients are effectively just an emergency operation, so money must be invested in our rural GPs.

“If the Government can find billions for an Olympic Games in Brisbane, surely we should be able to get adequate health care in the bush. We’re dying while Brisbane parties on.”

13/03/2021

Have you heard about this tool?🤔

It will help many of you to check when and if you are eligible for the covid-19 vaccine 💉.
https://covid-vaccine.healthdirect.gov.au/eligibility