Timaru Medical Centre

26/11/2025

Nurses Neave & Libby 👩🏼‍⚕️👩🏼‍⚕️ have been busy decorating our Timaru Medical Centre Christmas tree.
How do you think they did? ❤️🎅🏻🎄

04/11/2025

It's Measles Immunisation Week.

* Make sure your tamariki are fully immunised with two doses.
* If you were born between 1969-2004, you might not be fully protected.

For more information go to info.health.nz/measles

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04/11/2025

Are you fully protected against measles?

29/10/2025

New Zealand currently has measles cases linked to overseas travel, and the risk of measles being brought back into New Zealand by travellers remains high. Immunisation is the best protection and will help to prevent the spread of measles in our local communities.

23/10/2025

Stay safe out there everyone. The wind is getting up again in Timaru. Avoid travel if you can. Contact the practice if you would prefer to move your appointment to a telephone consultation. Thank you!

Emergencies can happen anytime, anywhere. You can take steps to be prepared. Find advice on how you can get prepared for an emergency.

22/10/2025

Kia Ora

Please note we are ❌ CLOSED on Monday 27th October 2025 for Labour Day..

If you require an urgent appointment on this day, please contact Timaru After Hours 03 684 8209
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08/10/2025

Mental Health Awareness week, where the focus is to Disconnect to Reconnect.
- take time to put down your screens as a family to focus on those around us.
- take time to be together

Thanks Sparkles for the vibrant cupcakes!!

08/10/2025

💚💚 Mental Health Awareness Week 💚💚

This week, challenge yourself and your family to look at each other, or what is around you, instead of looking at your screen!

Thanks Beks, our lovely Health Improvement Practitioner for encouraging us to 🤳🤳Disconnect so we can reconnect ☮️☮️

01/10/2025

18/09/2025

💥LONG WEEKEND💥

Hi there,

We are ❌ CLOSED - MONDAY 22nd September
for South Canterbury Anniversary Day.

If you require an urgent appointment on this day, please contact Timaru After Hours 03 684 8209
🩺

11/09/2025

Upcoming Retirement - Dr Jennifer McGechie 👩‍⚕️

After thirty years of providing general practice care Dr Jennifer McGechie is retiring on October 8th.

She is moving out of Timaru to be near to her family and help them care for their young children. She is also looking forward to pursuing her interests and taking care of her own health.

Jennifer says “It has been my privilege to provide health care to you all over these years. I thank you for your confidence and trust during these years.

I have been fortunate to work with a wonderful team through all these years at the Timaru Medical Centre. Dr Fanning and I have always worked hard to maintain our great team and I am grateful to them all for their support.”

Our medical centre has other excellent General and Nurse Practitioners that you can book appointments with, in the same way that you would if Dr McGechie was on leave. These practitioners have access to your confidential medical records and will be able to continue to provide quality medical care for you. We are also always working hard to recruit new medical practitioners.

In the next year Dr McGechie will be continuing to do paperwork for the practice and therefore you may sometimes still see her name on your scripts when you collect them.

If there is any aspect of your care you wish to discuss further, please contact us.

*Apologies to those who received more than one text message regarding this, there was a glitch with the system.

Send a message to learn more

26/08/2025

Hi South Canterbury, we currently have quite a bit of therapy equipment out in the community that we would like to get back. If you've been loaned something to help with your recovery, and you've finished with it, please get it back to us so we can use it to help the next person with their journey back to health.

Thanks 🙂