Mallacoota Medical Centre

03/03/2025

🚨🚨Hello again everybody! Thank you to everyone who has already submitted a response to our survey on after hours care at Mallacoota Medical Centre! The response has been incedible so far, but we want to get as many people as possible participating! So this is just a quick reminder to anyone who hasn't had a chance - have your say on after hours care and fill in our survey! We are collecting data over the next month so help us out! LINK: https://freeonlinesurveys.com/s/w1xzJNtp 🚨🚨If you would prefer a handwritten survey, visit our clinic and ask reception for a copy!

17/02/2025

Calling all local patients of Mallacoota Medical Centre - we need YOUR help!
SURVEY LINK: 🚨 https://freeonlinesurveys.com/s/w1xzJNtp 🚨
What is after hours care? It is care provided when you access your GP outside of normal general practice opening hours and outside of hospital emergency departments for something that can’t wait for the next available GP appointment. We are looking to build an accessible and sustainable after-hours care program here at Mallacoota Medical Centre through collaboration with a telehealth service such as Northern Health Virtual ED. Before we can do that, however, we would like to hear your thoughts on after-hours care. Tell us what you think, by filling in the survey, linked above!

30/12/2022

HIGH THUNDERSTORM ASTHMA RISK TODAY Friday 30th December.

"If people have asthma or hayfever, the advice is to go inside, close doors and windows and avoid wind gusts before and during the storm. Reliever medication should be carried at all times today."
State Emergency Management - Deparment of Health

30/08/2022

We regret to advise that Pathology Collection will unvailable in Mallacoota on Wednesday 31st August.
The closest alterntive collection centre is in Eden at
Curalo Medical Centre.

We anticipate a return to usual Collection services this Friday.

A reminder that Captial Pathology provides a collection service on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays between 9am and 12pm
Bring your Pathology referral from your doctor
No appointment neccessary.

If you have a questions or concerns about accessing Pathology Collection Services, please call The Mallacoota Medical Centre reception staff on 51580777

07/07/2022

FARWELL TO DR MUBASHAR
Sadly, Dr Mubashar and his family are leaving us! We want to farewell him with the same enthusiasm and appreciation as we welcomed him. Join us this Saturday with stories or pictures of times you’ve had with Mubashar and his family in the last nearly five years.

When: this Saturday afternoon, 9 July, from 3pm
Where: the Muddie
Bring: yourself, a plate of goodies and stories to share
Contact for further information: tricia@hiley.cx or 0412 312 881

30/03/2022

We are so proud of our previous GP Registrars. Dr. Mubashar Sherazi and Dr Emily Butlin who were awarded their postgraduate General Practitioner qualification "Fellow of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners" this week. Dr. Sherazi was also able to receive his GP Registrar of the Year award directly from the College. 👏👏👏
Dr Belal Hanifa has also completed his GP Registrar training and will recieve his Fellowship later in the year. For most doctors a College Fellowship is the culmination of at least (sometimes more) a decade of University Education.

We are so fortunate to be a teaching and learning Medical Practice and to have the services of highly educated and qualified medical professionals in our rural location.
Congratuations Mubashar, Emily and Belal 🎉 and all the best for the future 🎊

21/03/2022

Does your child's anxious moments make parenting challenging at times? Or would you like to know more about what to do when anxiety turns up?

This Thursday 24th March we are fortunate to have access to the Fear Less program in Mallacoota and an opportunity to connect with those in the commuity who can provide some support and advice if anxiety starts to take control at home.

7 to 9pm at the school Rm 7

11/01/2022

COVID information for Mallacoota

There have been at least 30 confirmed local COVID cases in Mallacoota since Christmas. With not much evidence of spread beyond social, workplace or household contacts.

So if you are a household contact please look at the checklist below to find out the correct way to safely leave your quarantine.
Unfortunately, the delay in testing results may increase your isolation time.

Remember that if you have been living with someone who has COVID there can be a 7 day delay in the development of your symptoms. Use a Rapid Antigen Test if you can, or get a PCR test and isolate until you have your result.

For everyone.
Avoid indoors and close social contact, maintain house-hold "bubbles" and follow the guidelines below. This will assist in limiting the impact of COVID in the community.

Information for household contacts of positive COVID cases.

What to do if you've been told you are a contact of someone with COVID-19

07/01/2022

COVID TEST RESULTS - PCR tests taken at the Medical Centre on Tues 4th and Wed 5th Jan are currently still pending as at 3pm Friday 7th. We expect results to be sent via SMS to the supplied mobile numbers by tomorrow.
If you have COVID symptoms please assume that your test will be positive. Of the 150+ people tested this week, we expect at least 50 to 60 will be positive.

If you, or a contact have symtpoms, please don't forget to look at
https://www.coronavirus.vic.gov.au/checklist-cases

03/01/2022

Hi everyone! Tuesday 9.45am. Please be patient. we are doing our best to answer calls as soon as possible and will try to ensure everyone who needs a COVID test can have one when we start testing this afternoon.

03/01/2022

COVID TESTING INFORMATION FOR MALLACOOTA.
The Mallacoota Medical Centre will be providing COVID PCR testing by appointment tomorrow - Tuesday 4th Jan and Wednesday 5th Jan.
Call for an appointment after 9am tomorrow. We will ensure that all those requiring testing in Mallacoota are are able to be tested. Results will be available on Thursday morning (at the earliest).

If you are not a current patient - please complete the online registration below and call on Tuesday to book an appointment for your test. We will be accepting bookings throughout the day - if the phone lines are busy - please call later. DO NOT attend the Medical Centre to make an appointment for COVID related issues.

SELF-ISOLATE IMMEDIATELY, If you
- have any symptoms, however mild
- are a household contact of someone who has tested positive for COVID
- have conducted a rapid antigen test and have a positive result (even if you a second test has been negative)

https://www.hotdoc.com.au/forms/mallacoota-medical-centre-new-patient-registration-form

*PLEASE LOOK OUT FOR OUR COMMUNITY*
IF YOU HAVE COVID, OR ARE A HOUSEHOLD CONTACT OF SOMEONE WITH COVID OR HAVE BEEN AT HIGH RISK OF EXPOSURE (AND HAVE EVEN THE MILDEST SYMPTOMS) - ISOLATE NOW (AND GET TESTED)*

Most COVID testing facilities in the region are beyond their capacity for testing and Rapid Antigen Tests (RAT) are in short supply. Please be patient. If in doubt, ISOLATE (see above) and get tested when you can.

02/01/2022

The information below is everything that you need to know if you have tested positive for COVID, or you have been a household contact, social contact or workplace contact of a positive COVID case. The advice has changed over the past week.

Use this link to find out what you need to do...
https://www.coronavirus.vic.gov.au/checklist-cases

To our current active patients of the Mallacoota Medical Centre, if you have tested positive and you are unwell with symptoms, please arrange a phone consultation with your GP on Tuesday so that we can arrange to monitor you at home.

What to do if you test positive to COVID-19 on a PCR test