Welcome back to three wonderful Doctors

Welcome back to Dr Julia Locket, Dr Rebecca Hunt-Davis and Dr Lee Lee Do. Please see below the hours that these doctors will be available. 

Dr Julia Locket

Dr Julia Lockett is now available for booked appointments every Saturday morning at Kalamunda between 8.30am – 11.00am

Dr Rebecca Hunt – Davis

Dr Rebecca Hunt-Davies is now available every alternate Saturday for booked appointments at Kalamunda between 8.30am – 11.00am

Dr Lee Lee Do

Has returned to consulting on a part time basis her consulting time are as follows:

• Wednesday: 12.30 – 4.30pm at Kalamunda
• Thursday: 1.00 – 5.00pm at Forrestfield
• Friday: 12.30 – 4.30pm at Kalamunda – This is specifically for skin cancer checks

Flu Vaccinations

2016 WA Influenza Immunisation Program

All government-funded influenza vaccines provided in WA in 2016 will be quadrivalent influenza vaccines. This means that the flu vaccines will contain protection from four different strains of influenza. This is a change to previous government funded flu vaccinations, which were trivalent.

Government-funded influenza vaccines will be available from mid to late April.

We will update our website once these vaccines become available.

The government-funded  flu vaccine is free for the following people:

• Pregnant women
• Persons 65 years of age or older
• Children aged 6 months to less than 5 years old
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people aged 6 months to less than 5 years or 15 years and older
• Individuals with the following medical conditions:
  • Heart disease
  • Diabetes
  • Severe asthma
  • Chronic lung conditions
  • Impaired immunity
  • Diseases of the nervous system
  • Renal disease
  • Haematological disorders

The Quadrivalent vaccine is no longer available through any supplier any WA.

Mead recommends that Trivalent is a good alternative. For those patients who are not eligible for the free vaccine you can purchase this Trivalent at the practice on the day of your appointment for $15.00

New Doctors to Mead Medical

We are very please to announce that we have had two new doctors, Dr Vinith Menezes and Dr Timothy McNaught join the Mead Medical team. 

Dr Vinith Menezes MB BS

Vin grew up in Geraldton, following his studies at UWA he has worked at Royal Perth, King Edward, SJOG Midland , Kalgoorlie and Bunbury hospitals before commencing his GP training through WAGPET with Mead.

His specialities are obstetrics and gynaecology and he has interest in skin work and palliative care.

His hobbies are “amateur everything” sailing, cycling, hiking, travel, piano playing, science fiction novels.

He is an active member of the Christian community at UWA.

Dr Timothy McNaught MB BS

Tim grew up in the Perth Hills and is looking forward to returning to the area. He studied at UWA and has worked in Fremantle and Joondalup hospitals before commencing his GP training through WAGPET in a Bunbury GP practice.

Tim enjoys paediatrics, adult internal medicine and travel medicine.

Tim enjoys travelling and swimming and hopes to get back to horse riding some day

Dr Julia Marcello’s – Baby News

Mead is delighted to announce the safe arrival of ‘Emelie Tuhi Crozier’ to Julia Marcello and her husband Jason on Tuesday 8^th December.

All three are doing well….

Julia will be on leave until further notice

Measles outbreak

We have had a confirmed case of measles in the local area. Contacts of this person have been notified.

If you had a notification of contact or believe you may have been in contact with anyone that suspects they may have measles this is what to do.

• Look out for symptoms of measles for up to 18 days after 1^st contact.

The first symptoms are fever, runny nose, sore runny eyes and cough

• As a precaution it is a good idea not to have contact with any one at risk for 18 days post exposure.

If you or your child develop symptoms of measles

• Do not attend public places (such as work public places, school etc.) or use public transport

• See your doctor as soon as possible. Call the surgery ahead to alert them of your symptoms. We will see you at our Kalamunda rooms where we can assess you safely away  from other patients so as not to risk infecting other people. Please DO NOT present to the front desk, you will be asked to come directly to the rear of the building where we have a special isolation and treatment room set up.

If you have any further concerns about Measles please contact us by phone on 9293 4455 and we will be able to advise you.

Mead Medical raising awareness about breast cancer

Mead Medical is thrilled to be getting behind the Cancer Council’s Pink Ribbon Day in 2013.

Pink Ribbon days aims to raise awareness for breast cancer and the benefits of early detection.

The Cancer Council aims to minimise the threat of women’s cancers through successful prevention, best treatment, support and world-class cancer research.

While the actual Pink Ribbon Day is today, Monday 28^th October, all our staff have been decked out in pink for the past week and will be until the 1^st November.

We have a great display set up in the clinic where you can find out more about breast cancer along with information about where you can go for mammograms.

We are also selling Pink Ribbon merchandise in the clinic and taking donations. Here is an idea of the various ways to Cancer Council puts your Pink Ribbon day donations to good use:

• $5 can go towards producing a meditation DVD to help a woman deal with the side effects of chemotherapy.
• $10 helps pay for an Information Pack for women coping with the aftermath of surgery.
• $50 can help us answer a Cancer Council Helpline call, to inform and reassure a woman about her cancer diagnosis.
• $100 can go provide accommodation for women who need to stay away from home while accessing treatment.
• $250 can help pay an overdue electricity, phone, gas or rates bill for a mum who hasn’t been able to work for six months.
• $500 can go towards funding a grant for new research into ovarian cancer.
• $1,200 can help us fund three days of research into a rare type of breast cancer.

We are thrilled to be getting behind this wonderful initiative and look forward to supporting other great health initiatives over the coming year.

Royal Australian College of GP’s Australian General Practice of the Year

Mead Medical is very proud to be recognised as this year’s Royal Australian College of GPs Australian general practice of the year. Mead was chosen as number one from over 7000 practices Australia wide, based on our strong commitment to delivering high quality primary healthcare services to the community, health advocacy and teaching the next generation of GPs.

The award was announced at the RACGP conference awards ceremony in Darwin on Wednesday the 16th of October and presented by RACGP president Dr Liz Marles.

New premises for Mead Medical as of Monday 17th December

We are thrilled to be finally moving into our new premises at 37 Elizabeth St, Kalamunda!

All the information about the new premises is available here in pdf format.

You can also read all about it below:

After much planning and a very prolonged construction, Mead Medical Kalamunda is finally moving in to our new premises. This flyer outlines what is going to be happening at the new premises, we look forward to seeing you soon!

NB: The Forrestfield surgery will continue to operate at 11 Salix Way Forrestfield

HOW TO MAKE AN APPOINTMENT

This has not changed. For Kalamunda, just ring 92934455.

WHO WILL BE WORKING AT THE NEW CLINIC?

All of our current doctors will be making the move to the new premises on the 17th of December.

THERE WILL BE THREE NEW PERMANENT DOCTORS starting work with us in the new year.

Ewen McLean and Suzie Bicker are a husband and wife team that will be joining us from Scotland. Ewen will be starting in January and Suzie will start with us in the middle of February.

Erin Horsley is a GP anaesthetist. She will be joining us from Albany in January

Dr Jill Wyatt wil be with us for 12 months as part of her GP training.

Our new premises incorporates a purpose built ALLIED HEALTH AND SPECIALIST CENTRE. We are working hard to attract the best possible people to compliment our existing medical service. So far we have attracted the following:

• A cardiology (heart doctors) group, They will also be conducting cardiology investigations locally.
• Opthalmology (eye doctor)
• Orthopaedics (bone doctor)
• Physiotherapist
• Exercise physiologist
• Dietician
• Audiologist
• Orthotic specialist

WHAT WILL CHANGE?

You are still going to get wonderful health care. In fact your health care will be improved with state of the art facilities that we think are the best in Perth! There is a large purpose built treatment area, three dedicated procedural rooms for minor procedures, a specialist and allied health centre AND more doctors – which means MORE appointments.

However, there are some changes:

1. You will need to register with the reception on arrival. Once registered, you will receive a billing slip that you will need to hand to your doctor.
2. You will then be directed to wait outside the doctors’ rooms.
3. Once seen you will be given the billing slip to take to reception

Seeing the nurse will also change. You will need to first register with reception and then move on through to the separate treatment room waiting area.

PARKING AND PUBLIC TRANSPORT

There will be plenty of parking on site (click here for new location map and parking).

For those of you who use public transport, bus route 296 from the Mead Street bus terminus runs along Railway Road through Gooseberry Hill, High Wycombe, Guildford and Belmont to the city. We are lobbying hard for a short diversion from Railway Road via William Street – which is the street closer to the Kalamunda hospital.

I STILL HAVE QUESTIONS

If you have any concerns on the day of appointment, please ask one of our receptionists, they will be more than happy to help you with the process.

Alternatively we can be contacted on 92934455 or via email admin@meadmedical.com.au

Move to the new building

After years of planning and unavoidable building delays, the time has almost come for us to move in to the new building.

At this stage the move is scheduled to occur in December. We will send you an information sheet regarding this in the next month.

We are very excited about the move and look forward to seeing you all at the new building.

New Doctors

We have been very fortunate to recruit two wonderful Doctors from Scotland. Ewen and Suzie Bickner are a husband and wife team that will be joining our team in January 2013. We are very excited at the prospect of welcoming 2 enthusiastic and young Doctors to our well established team.

In addition we will continue to support the training of general practitioners. IN 2013 we will have 3 new registrars joining us.

So with an extra 90 appointments a day being available, we hope that we will be able to better service the requirements of our ever expanding patient base.