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Priority Health Medical Centre is a Family GP Practice located in Orion Springfield Central QLD.

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http://priorityhealthmedicalcentre.com.au/

31/10/2025

📣 Medicare Changes – What It Means for You

From 1 November 2025, Medicare will introduce new billing rules across Australia. This means you may start hearing things in the news or from other clinics about changes to fees or rebates.

✅ What this means at our clinic:
We would like to let you know that there is no changes to our current fee structure. Your appointments, payments and Medicare claims will continue the same as they do now.

💡 Why we are keeping our current billing model:

• It allows our doctors more time with each patient
• It supports thorough, safe, and consistent medical care
• It ensures we can continue providing the services and staffing our patients rely on

💬 If you have questions:
Please feel free to speak with our reception team.

Thank you for your support and for choosing our clinic for your healthcare.

31/10/2025

🩺 Weekend Appointments Available 🩺

Need to see a doctor on a Saturday or Sunday?
We’re here for you — open 8:00 am to 12:00 pm.

👨‍⚕️ Weekend Doctors
• Dr Julian Woods Dr Matilda Simic Dr Kenny Im
• Dr Champika Jinendradasa

📍 Priority Health Medical Centre – Orion Springfield Central

📞 Call 3470 1599
🌐 Book online: www.priorityhealthmedicalcentre.com.a

30/10/2025

In counseling or coaching work, we can talk about the 3 main key functions of an emotion based on DBT Dialectical Behavioural Therapy originally developed by Dr Marsha Linehan.

1. It activates us into action. Without it, there may be less “urge” or compulsion to act. No action may result in no/little outcome or impact and at the same time, action can be helpful or destructive depending on context.

2. It helps us to communicate with others in a more holistic and non verbal kind of way. Nothing needs to be said and communication can still occur.

3. It helps us to communicate with ourselves and guides us to move towards a life that matters to us, our values/conscience, and to the people we care about.

Without it, we may be lost, lack motivation and without meaning and purpose.

The problem is, if we do not know how to process/use our feelings/emotions properly and avoid/suppress it due to discomfort, we may become lost, stuck with unresolved conflict, and not able to live a life truer to self.

Part of therapy is to raise more aware, acknowledge and equip us with better emotional literacy, to improve our emotional wellbeing and our overall physical, psychological and social health.

23/10/2025

🩺 Weekend Appointments Available 🩺

Need to see a doctor on a Saturday or Sunday?
We’re here for you — open 8:00 am to 12:00 pm.

👨‍⚕️ Weekend Doctors
• Dr Julian Woods Dr Mukul Mogil Dr Peter Pham
• Dr Anitha Makam

📍 Priority Health Medical Centre – Orion Springfield Central

📞 Call 3470 1599
🌐 Book online: www.priorityhealthmedicalcentre.com.au

21/10/2025

💓 Cholesterol and Your Heart — What You Need to Know

High cholesterol often has no symptoms, yet it’s one of the biggest risk factors for heart disease and stroke — Australia’s leading causes of death.

🩺 What is cholesterol?
Cholesterol is a fatty substance in your blood. Your body needs some of it to function, but too much “bad” LDL cholesterol can build up in your arteries, making them hard and narrow — a condition known as atherosclerosis.

❤️ Why it matters
When blood can’t flow freely to your heart or brain, it increases the risk of heart attack and stroke.

✅ You can take control
• Eat more fruit, vegetables, whole grains, and healthy fats (like olive oil and avocado)
• Cut down on processed foods and trans fats
• Stay active — even 30 minutes of walking a day helps
• Don’t smoke and limit alcohol
• Get your cholesterol checked regularly — especially if you have a family history or other risk factors

🩶 Early detection and small lifestyle changes can make a big difference for your heart health.

📍 Priority Health Medical Centre – Springfield Central
📞 3470 1599 www.priorityhealthmedicalcentre.com.au

18/10/2025

Close Enough to Care, Steady Enough to Help:

When we care for someone who’s struggling whether we’re a doctor, nurse, carer, parent or friend, it’s natural to feel their pain.

But real compassion means being present with someone’s emotions, not absorbed by them.

One of the many important life skills is to cultivate mindfulness/holding space for the feelings and emotions of others especially with the “uncomfortable painful ones”. It can often be very difficult for many of us to do.

Not too fused or “zoomed into” the feelings and emotions of others but not too detached or “zoomed out” either.

Too fused or “zoomed into” the feelings and emotions of others and we may “catch it”, suffer with them, burn out and get compassion fatigue.

Too detached or “zoomed out” and we may risk losing empathy, connection and miss the subtle emotional signals behind their communications with us.

Mindfulness with the “feelings of others” is the “sweet spot”. Not too close but not too far either.

17/10/2025

🩺 Weekend Appointments Available 🩺

Need to see a doctor on a Saturday or Sunday?
We’re here for you — open 8:00 am to 12:00 pm.

👨‍⚕️ Weekend Doctors
• Dr Julian Woods Dr Matilda Simic
• Dr Kenny Im
• Dr Georgia Schiller

📍 Priority Health Medical Centre – Orion Springfield Central

📞 Call 3470 1599
🌐 Book online: www.priorityhealthmedicalcentre.com.au

14/10/2025

Have you checked your blood pressure lately? 💙

High blood pressure often has no symptoms — that’s why it’s called the “silent killer.”

Getting your BP checked regularly helps detect problems early and prevent serious conditions such as heart attack, stroke, blood vessel and kidney disease. It is quick to do and can help protect your long-term health.

Get your blood pressure check next time you come in— it could make a big difference for your heart health. 💓

Priority Health Medical Centre – Springfield Central, call 3470 1599 or visit www.priorityhealthmedicalcentre.com.au.

11/10/2025

🌿 Emotional Literacy — The Language We All Need to Learn 🌿

In counselling work, I often explain to patients that feelings and emotions are like a language.

Some people understand very little of it.

Some people understand a bit and say a bit.

Some people can understand a lot but can’t speak it very well.

Some people are fluent — able to understand deeply and express clearly.

And some can use this language well with others but not with themselves.

Part of counselling is reflecting on what level we’re at in the “feeling and emotional language.” From there, both acceptance and a pivot for change with clarity are important.

If we can’t understand or speak French — and our context requires it — we’d need to learn French.

The same goes for the Language of Feelings and Emotions. 💬

09/10/2025

🩺 Weekend Appointments Available 🩺

Need to see a doctor on a Saturday or Sunday?
We’re here for you — open 8:00 am to 12:00 pm.

👨‍⚕️ Weekend Doctors
• Dr Julian Woods Dr Yasmin Esat
• Dr Peter Pham
• Dr Huy Dinh Vu

📍 Priority Health Medical Centre – Orion Springfield Central

📞 Call 3470 1599
🌐 Book online: www.priorityhealthmedicalcentre.com.au

04/10/2025

👑 We’re Open this King’s Birthday!

🕗 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM 💙
Our team is here to look after you and your family.

📍 Priority Health Medical Centre
🌐 www.priorityhealthmedicalcentre.com.au
📞 3470 1599

💻 Book online anytime!

29/09/2025

🌿 DBT – Learning to Hold Two Truths at the same time to gain psychological flexibility🌿

Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) teaches us that two things can be true at the same time.

Instead of “either/or” thinking with psychological rigidity, we learn to think in “both/and” for psychological flexibility. We don’t always have to choose one truth over the other.

💬 For example:
👉 “I’m angry AND I still care about you.”

“I disagree with you AND I still respect you.”

“I am not good with this AND I can still give it a go”

“I acknowledge your point of view is true AND I acknowledge mine is true also.”

“I can see your perspective AND at the same time, this is my perspective, so how can we move forward with integrating both perspectives.”

This kind of thinking helps us:
💙 Understand our emotions more clearly
💙 Communicate more calmly with less cognitive dissonance and inner conflict
💙 Build stronger, more balanced relationships with others and ourselves

🧠 DBT skills help with:
✨ Managing big emotions
✨ Reducing impulsive reactions
✨ Improving relationships
✨ Building self-acceptance and acceptance of others

It’s a powerful toolkit for anyone struggling with emotional ups and downs, anxiety, or relationship stress.

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Monday	08:00 - 18:00
Tuesday	08:00 - 18:00
Wednesday	08:00 - 18:00
Thursday	08:00 - 18:00
Friday	08:00 - 18:00
Saturday	08:00 - 13:00
Sunday	08:00 - 13:00

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+61734701599

Website

http://www.priorityhealthmedicalcentre.com.au/

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