Sanctuary Lifestyle Clinic

25/02/2026

At Sanctuary Lifestyle Clinic, your voice matters. Thank you to everyone who completed our recent patient survey conducted by CFEP Surveys.

Because of your feedback, we’re taking active steps to improve your experience:

🌙 After-Hours Care
We’re updating our website and social media with clear contact details for our after-hours providers:
📞 Sydney Medical Service – 1300 Home GP
📞 13SICK (National Home Doctor Service)

💬 Providing Feedback
We’re improving signage for our feedback box and making it easier to leave feedback via our website.

👩‍⚕️ Your Clinician of Choice
You can nominate your preferred doctor or nurse with Reception or via MyMedicare — and you’ll still have access to all providers at our clinic.

⏳ Waiting Times
If your wait is expected to exceed 15 minutes, we’ll now send SMS updates to keep you informed.

We’re committed to continuous improvement and delivering high-quality, patient-centred care.

Thank you for helping us grow and serve you better 💚

03/02/2026

HOPE Framework

One of the most important things we can do in society is to protect and nurture our children, who are our future.
Trauma is virtually inevitable in life in one way or another, with some children experiencing unspeakable trauma that has the potential to damage them long into their adulthood.
This is why I was very interested in this post by Dr Eric Arzubi, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, around giving children HOPE.

Perhaps we as adults, teachers, day care workers, health professionals can use this information to encourage support to our children.

It's 2017. A pediatrician asks an uncomfortable question. Everyone was studying why trauma makes people sick. He wanted to know why most survivors heal. His colleagues called the work "fuzzy." Dr. Robert Sege called it unexplored. For years, we measured ACEs. Adverse Childhood Experiences. Abuse. Ne...

03/02/2026

A very happy new year to all our current and prospective patients. We hope you had a safe and happy break over the Christmas and New Year period.

11/12/2025

The Sanctuary Lifestyle Clinic Team wishes you a very happy Christmas!
Please be advised of the following adjustments to our office hours during this holiday season.

14/11/2025

CULINARY WORKSHOPS

If you are interested in learning how to cook some healthy whole food plant based recipes, check out Doctors For Nutrition's Culinary Medicine Workshop here:

Our Culinary Medicine course is the first fully on-demand program of its kind in Australia and New Zealand—created by nutrition experts and medical doctors, made for everyone.

29/10/2025

SLEEP AND SUSCEPTIBILITY TO COLDS.

Are you prone to catching a cold? Perhaps getting more sleep may be the answer.
In this interesting study where participants were literally innoculated with the rhinovirus, those who had >7hrs sleep were 3 x less likely to actually develop a cold infection than those with 7hrs each night.

10/08/2025

Just finished another awesome City2Surf. It teamed down for the last 1-2km making for a soggy and saturating finish but was still a lot of fun.
I was raising funds for ELIA Wellness an awesome health promotion charity run by the amazing Geraldine Chang Przybylko and heavily featuring my dedicated colleague Andrea Matthews who also works with our awesome team at Sanctuary.
There is still time to donate to support this very worthy cause if you willing.
Many thanks

01/07/2025

Fee Increase.
There will be a small fee increase from today. Fees usually increase every 12mths. There is a small increase in the medicare rebate also.
The new fee structure will be going up on our web site shortly.

01/07/2025

INFLUENZA VACCINES
We have flu vaccines still in stock, both private and gov funded if you are eligible.
Please ask our staff if you would like one.
There is a fair bit of influenza going around at present.

27/01/2025

SERVER AND INTERNET OUTAGE

We are currently experiencing a server and internet outage which means our main computer systems and phone lines are down.

We are doing our best to continue consultations but telehealth consults are not possible presently and we cannot take any phone calls.

You may email us on: info@sanctuaryclinic.com.au and leave a message and we will return your email or call as soon as possible.
We are working on fixing the system ASAP.

Thank you for your patience

26/12/2024

HOLIDAY SEASON

Sanctuary Lifestyle Clinic staff would like to wish you health and happiness this festive season.
We will be open on non public holidays except Jan 2nd. Office hours are listed below.
We are covered by Sydney Medical Home Doctor service for public holidays and after hours: https://www.sydmed.com.au/
You may book a consult with them if needing medical assistance during these hours.

We will have very minimal doctor cover during Jan 12-26th due to doctors on leave. During this time you may see any of the doctors at Summers Ave Medical Practice in Asquith: http://summersfamilypractice.com.au/
Our reception staff can provide a medical summary to be sent to them and please advice them to send any follow up results or correspondence to our doctors.

Again wishing you Merry Christmas and happy new year.
Thank you for entrusting your medical care to us.

22/11/2024

If you like Christmas music and like dressing up, SingNoel is for you.
Dr Pennington will be part of the choir and would love to see you there. Tickets available via website
singseries.com