Sanctuary Medical Practice Fletcher

04/04/2025

This year as Easter and ANZAC Day are so close we have decided to take the opportunity to rest our hard working team. The practice will be closed from Friday 18 April and re-open on Monday 28 April. This will give our team a chance to re-energise, spend time with their loved ones, and have a well earned rest.

We hope that everyone in our community has a wonderful Easter. And that all of us take the time to remember the sacrifice made by the ANZACs and honour their memory.

21/07/2024

The management at Sanctuary Medical Practice Fletcher has recently been considering the increase in respiratory viruses like Influenza, RSV, Whooping Cough, and Covid. In particular, consideration has been for those people that are at high risk of complications including pneumonia and hospitalisation.

Our practice has around 2000 patients that would be considered at high risk if they contract a virus like Influenza. It should also be noted that anyone could experience complications from viruses 🦠 like influenza - even very healthy people.

Some of the people with a higher risk of complications work for us - we have some clinical and non-clinical health care workers and/or their family members that could experience serious health complications if they were infected. We need to make their workplace as safe as possible during this season.

It is for this reason that we have returned mask 😷 wearing to our practice and increased Telehealth. We see this as an act of safety, caring, and kindness to protect the people that visit our practice and for those that work there.

We ask everyone that comes to wear a mask, wash hands as required, and sanitise. And if you have respiratory symptoms please let admin know when you are making an appointment or arriving at the practice.

We are very grateful to all the wonderful patients that have been wearing masks 😷.
And have also shown understanding and support for our decision.

20/07/2024

Due to the increased cases of Influenza A, RSV, Whooping Cough, and Covid…. Masks 😷 are a condition of entry to our practice. If you don’t have one, ask our friendly admin team and they will be happy to provide one.

19/05/2024

A huge thank you to all GPs in our community 🙏 and a special thanks to Dr Graham Walter, Dr Chris Chard, Dr Vivin Thomas Mathew, Dr Rob Spier, Dr Brianna Bassett, and Dr Beck Spring.

13/05/2024

Summer is fun, but we all know that the sun ☀️ can be very damaging…

When was your last skin check? Early detection is so important.

Dr Graham Walter, Dr Chris Chard, and Dr Rob Spier are all qualified and have experience in detecting skin cancers and skin cancer removal if needed.

If you would like to book for a skin check, you can call our practice on 02 4953 8244. Or you can book online:

https://www.hotdoc.com.au/medical-centres/fletcher-NSW-2287/sanctuary-medical-practice/doctors

And here is a link to the Cancer Council webpage for further information on skin cancer:

https://www.cancercouncil.com.au/skin-cancer/about-skin-cancer/ #:~:text=cancer%20from%20occurring.-,How%20common%20is%20skin%20cancer%3F,common%20cancer%20diagnosed%20in%20Australia.

12/05/2024

This week we have celebrated and thanked our Nurses and Medical Receptionists 👏⭐️ on International Nurses Day and International Medical Receptionist Day. Everyday they care and help people in our community as frontline health care workers.

Nurse Jo has shown commitment to our community and has been with us for 10 years now! Next year Jo will be training our first new graduate nurse! We are very excited to add the education of the next generation of nurses to our current program of training future doctors. It is our hope that we will be able to train many doctors and nurses to enter our industry with a heart for health care and community.

And then there is the work of our Medical Receptionist. This is a huge job, they will answer on average around 800 calls in a week. Most of these calls are complex and from people in our community needing medical care. Their ability to triage and understand a wide range of needs is to be admired. As most people know the health care system is getting more and more complicated and it is our medical receptionist that are often helping our community to access medical services and to understand how it all works.

Again, thank you to our nurses and medical receptionists. You are appreciated and admired ⭐️👏💛

07/05/2024

We are very happy to let our community know that Dr Spier has been able to increase his availability to see patients at Sanctuary Medical Practice Fletcher. He is now available on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. Dr Spier completed his final stage of general practice training at Sanctuary Medical Practice Fletcher over the past 2 years and was supervised by Dr Graham Walter. It is wonderful to now see him move into the next stage of his career as an experienced GP and now taking new patients.

If you would like an appointment you can call the practice on 02 4953 8244 or book online at:

https://www.hotdoc.com.au/medical-centres/fletcher-NSW-2287/sanctuary-medical-practice/doctors/dr-robert-spier

Services by General Practitioners, Nurses, and Psychologists in a relaxed and accessible space.

28/04/2024

We will be closed on the afternoon of Wednesday 01 May 2024 from 12.30pm. The entire team, both clinical and non-clinical, will be involved in an Annual Education and Planning Day.

While everyone in our practice regularly participates in education and professional development as individuals, this team based training is a very important and precious time for our practice as we work to consolidate knowledge, develop quality improvements, and plan for the future. As a team this will give us an opportunity to focus on patient care as we address topics such as continuity of care, standards in healthcare, managing chronic disease in the community, sustainability of general practice, and digital platforms.

24/04/2024

Today with deep respect and heavy hearts we will remember those that served and sacrificed for our Country. We are forever grateful - Lest We Forget.

30/03/2024

Thank you to our amazing GPs -
Dr Graham, Dr Chris, Dr Vivin, Dr Rob, and Dr Brianna. We are so grateful for everything you do for our community
🩺⭐️🤩💛

27/03/2024

We hope our community has a safe and peaceful Easter break 🐣

Sanctuary Medical Practice Fletcher will be closed over the weekend (including Saturday morning) and will re-open on Tuesday 02 April 2024.