Services

 

Kids Health Check & Immunisations

Kirwan Family Practice offers comprehensive development assessment and health checks and vaccinations for your infants and children.

 

Other Immunisations (Travel Health)

The surgery is also happy to advise on vaccinations necessary for holiday travel. The practice is accredited to provide Yellow Fever Vaccination
 

Routine season influenza, pneumonia and other vaccines are also available at the surgery.
Please contact our freindly admin staff and enquire today in regards to immunisations at the practice.

 

Women’s Health

Health screening is an important part of disease prevention. There are many screening tests and examinations that healthy women can undertake to help with detection of diseases such as cancer. Kirwan Family Practice can help you monitor this.

 

Indigenous Health Checks - Closing the Gap

The aim of the CTG program is to decrease the gap in life expectancy by improving access to culturally sensitive primary care services for Indigenous Australians. Kirwan Family Practice supports this initiative and has a special fee structure for CTG patients
 

The Closing the Gap program will:
 

• Increase access to mainstream primary  health care services by  indigenous Australians;
   
• Improve capacity of general practice to deliver culturally sensitive primary care  services;
   
• Increase the  uptake of  Indigenous specific MBS items including Indigenous  health  checks and  follow  up  items;
   
• Support mainstream primary care services to encourage Indigenous Australians to self identify;
   
• Increase Awareness and understanding of closing the Gap measures relevant to mainstream primary care; and Foster collaboration and support between the mainstream primary care and indigenous health sectors.

 

Mental Health

Kirwan Family Practice provides mental health services for patients with all mental health needs. These range from children's services to more  complex health issues. One in 5 Australian will have a mental health issue in their lives

 

Emergency Treatment

Our practice offers urgent appointments by using a triage system. The practice nurse will traige your level of emergency and advise you  of your best option for obtaining help and arrange an appointment at the clinic if this is the appropriate course of action

 

 Skin Check
 

  Book an initial 30min consultation with the GP for a full body check. Biopsies and  other procedural appts may be made on the day if time allows.

 

Annual Health check ups
 

The practice offers a variety of health checks:
 

• 40 to 45 year old

 

• over 75 year old

 

• children's health

 

• asthma checks

 

• chronic disease check ups

 

Diabetes care and Chronic Disease Management
 

With our practice team working together, Kirwan Family Practice offers coordinated care for chronic disease. We have been recognised for our excellence in chronic disease management

 

 Asthma care
 

Asthma is a disease that affects your lungs. It causes repeated episodes of wheezing, breathlessness, chest tightness, and nighttime or early morning coughing. Asthma can be controlled by taking medicine and avoiding the triggers that can cause an attack. Spirometry done by our trained nurses can help guide the management of your asthma

 

Minor Procedure
 

Kirwan Family Practice offers the following minor procedure services. Please ask reception for further information regarding our services:
 

• Excisions

 

• Biopsies

 

• Implanon insertion and removal

 

• Removal of toe nail

 

• Incision and drainage of abscess

 

• Suturing and removal of suturing

 

• Wound dressing

 

• Joint injections

 

• Intramuscular injections

 

• Mirena removal

 

On Site Services / Facilities
 

Sullivan Nicolaides Pathology

Kirwan Family Practice has an onsite pathology collection lab arriving in the next few months.