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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.

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.

With the extra space available to us at the new medical centre, we have actively recruited more doctors to meet the increasing need for appointments in our local area.

Dr Erin Horsley, Dr Jill Wyatt, Dr Ewen McLean and Dr Suzie Bicker started earlier this year and Drs Amanda Larke and Dr Helen Wilcox have just started.

So, there should be no problems getting appointments when you need them.

Mead Medical will now be open from 8.30am to 8pm Monday to Thursday at the Kalamunda Medical centre.

The new hours will commence from the 11th of February 2013.

After 6.00pm, there is a $10.00 payment on your usual gap fee, irrespective of whether a concession card is held.
This service is designed for those that work during the day or for emergencies.

The day has finally come. After numerous delays and almost 10 years of planning, Mead Medical have moved in to our new building at 37 Elizabeth st, just next to Kalamunda hospital.

We look forward to seeing you soon at our new building.

Mead Medical Group will be running an emergency course at our new medical centre this coming weekend, the 8th, 9th and 10th of February.

The course will be run by the RACGP and will ensure that our doctors and nurses are up to date with all aspects of medical emergencies.

Please be aware that this will mean that there will be NO NURSES on duty on the 8th of February. The emergency clinic will run like normal on the Saturday and Sunday.

It is with much sadness that we report the passing of our beloved friend and colleague, Jane Marsden (nee Talbot). After a long battle with ovarian cancer, Jane passed away peacefully on the 30th of January 2013.

We would like to advise that Mead Medical will continue to provide medical care to our patients over the Christmas and New Year period.

We will have our normal emergency surgery on the 22nd and 23rd of December.

We will be closing at 4pm on the 24th.

There will be no emergency clinic on the 25th.

There will be an emergency clinic at the Kalamunda surgery on the 26th.

The surgery will open as normal on the 27th and 28th.

There will be normal emergency clinic on 29th and 30th.

We will be closing the surgery at 4pm on 31st of December.

We will have normal emergency clinic on New Years Day.

Normal surgery bours will resume from the 2nd of January.

We wish all of our patients a very merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

The long anticipated move to the new premises in Elizabeth st has been delayed.

We have been advised by our building contractor that unanticipated delay’s with the air conditioning installation has led to a revised finishing date. At this stage he has suggested that we will be able to move in to the new building in early February 2013.

We will keep you updated on the move as more information becomes available.

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:

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.
You will then be directed to wait outside the doctors’ rooms.
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

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