Milton Medical Centre

26/09/2025

MILTON MEDICAL CENTRE

Important Patient Notice – Temporary System Upgrade Outage

Our practice is upgrading our patient management system to improve efficiency and future services. As part of this upgrade, there will be a short period where we will not have access to patient records.

📅 Outage period:

• From Friday 26 September, 5:00pm until Monday 29 September, after midday.

During this time:
• We will not be able to book or change appointments.
• We cannot check results or access patient records.
• We will be unable to generate prescriptions
• The Manage My Health (MMH) portal will not connect to our system. Any requests made in MMH over the weekend will not reach us until the upgrade is complete on Monday afternoon.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause and thank you for your patience while we complete this important system upgrade.

If you have urgent health needs during this time, please phone the practice as usual on 03 417 8226.

15/09/2025

Influenza/flu - please read the post below. This has some great information on protecting yourself, your whanau and anyone close to you within the community!

You may have noticed an increase in Flu cases across Otago; many children and adults are being hit hard with this.
We have had an influx of calls to our center regarding the Flu, and we want to help you to know how you can protect yourself and others when you do become unwell.

RAT tests are available to purchase from us at a cost of $10, this will test for Influenza A & B, Covid and RSV, if you require one, please contact reception on 03 4882754

While the flu can be awful, the best thing you can do is stay home, rest and stay hydrated.

For more info on the Flu click on the below link to take you to HealthNZ.
https://info.health.nz/conditions-treatments/infectious-diseases/flu-influenza

22/04/2025

Kia ora, please know, we currently have no Internet at the Practice. Please be patient if you're call goes unanswered.

If you have an appointment, cash would be great.

Thank you

15/04/2025

Kia ora & Happy Easter everyone!

If you are travelling this weekend to visit whanau/family or friends, please take care on the roads, be patient and understanding of each other

For any urgent medical assistance please ring the practice line to be triaged to our afterhours service. 🐇

14/04/2025

Prescription reminder!

Please review your medication and those you care for, regularly, to ensure you or they never run out!

31/03/2025

Kia ora Koutou!

It's Flu Vaccine time everyone! Get your vaccine for 2025!

The flu vaccine is free for those who are most vulnerable to becoming very sick if they get the flu.

Check your eligibility for a funded vaccination here;

https://www.immune.org.nz/factsheets/influenza-2025-pharmac-eligibility-criteria

Stay healthy whanau and protect yourself and your loved ones this flu season!

31/12/2024

Thank you Alice Muiral - Artist/Decorator for our new waiting room artwork titled "Boring Waiting Room" 😀 Happy New Year to all.

24/12/2024

11/12/2024

Needing a medical centre? Milton Medical Centre are open for enrolments. Enrol in the month of December and go in the draw to win a Xmas hamper. Draw closes 30 December. To enrol, copy and paste the link below, or call in to fill in an enrolment form. https://bit.ly/3M3bnoM

29/11/2024

MOvember
Tackle difficult conversations
https://conversations.movember.com/en/

27/11/2024

Do your friends and whānau know the difference between the main types of diabetes?

Here's some simple definitions.