Appointments

Health professional consultation is by appointment only.

Standard appointments are usually 10-15 minutes in duration. 

Longer appointments are available by most practitioners subject to increased fees, please call to enquire.

Each family member will require a separate appointment.

To see a GP on the same day, please call at 9:00 AM or as early as possible.  Administrative personnel will make every effort to accommodate your preferred time or provide alternative options.  If you have an urgent issue and cannot obtain a same-day-appointment please contact the local Primary  Priority Care Clinic - Maribyrnong Priority Care Clinic (Local Government funded PPCC). 

Prioirty is given to emergency situations and appointment schedules maybe delayed due to emergency presentations. If you or a family member are feeling seriously unwell, have difficulty breathing, are in severe pain, have been in an accident please alert administrative personnel for prompt medical attention or call 000 if your life is in danger.  

Administrative personnel  will try to communicate any delays in indvidual practitioner appointment schedules and offer rescheduling of appointments where appropriate.

Home visits are available by some practitioners at their discretion and is usually offered only to existing patients after a telephone discussion. 

Walk- in appointments are not available as most practitioners' schedules are pre-booked in advance for the majority of the time.  Administrative personnel, however, can offer to place you on a specific practitioners' cancellation list. 

Time is valuable hence it is appreciated if you could please have the courtesy to call ahead to  cancel, reschedule,  or inform administrative personnel if you are running late  or cannot make it on time to your appointment.  Please note that a missed appointment fee  will be applied to your account for missed appointments without prior cancellation  (of min. 3 hrs before appointment time or the day before).  Repeated missed appointments may not guarantee you with future booked appointments. 


REQUESTS

Please note that an appointment time is required for: