Women’s Health Week is an annual event dedicated to promoting women’s health and wellbeing in Australia, encouraging women to prioritize their health and make informed decisions.
https://www.womenshealthweek.com.au/
September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, a global initiative dedicated to raising awareness and support for children affected by cancer. The campaign aims to highlight the impact of childhood cancer on children, families, and communities, and to promote research and treatment advancements.
https://childhoodcancer.asn.au/
Since 2010, the “Liptember” flagship fundraising campaign has encouraged people to wear lipstick throughout the month of September as a lighthearted and fun way to raise awareness and vital funds for women’s mental health, raising over $18 million to date.
April is Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) Awareness Month, a time dedicated to raising awareness and promoting understanding of this common digestive disorder, with World IBS Day on April 19th.
March Is Endometriosis Awareness Month: How Much Do You Know? Endometriosis is a disease in which uterine-like tissues grow out of place and become inflamed during a woman’s menstrual cycle even though the tissues are outside the uterus.
Each year in Australia around 1,720 women are diagnosed with ovarian cancer. In most cases the cancer will be diagnosed at an advanced stage, where it is very difficult to treat.
Only 31% of Australians know that ovarian cancer has the poorest survival rate of any female cancer in Australia.
For more information head to the Ovarian Cancer website.
Due to the current economic climate, along with many other GP practices, we are changing our scheduled fee rates. The changes will come into effect on the 1st January 2026.
Our billing policy remains the same, and is:
We are a private billing practice.
Children under 5 years old – bulk billed.
Children aged 5-11 years old (Inclusive) – discount billed.
Children aged 12 years and over – continue to be fully privately billed.
Further details can be found on our website HERE.
These changes will enable us to continue to deliver the high standard of medical care at Hamilton Medical Centre.
Accreditation is the process of implementing the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) Standards for general practices.The RACGP Standards provide a recognised national benchmark demonstrating the Practice’s commitment to quality and safety. Practices seek accreditation because they want to do their best and view this as another step towards excellence in patient care.
AGPAL recently reaccredited the Practice against the 5th edition of the RACGP standards, following an onsite assessment which takes place every three years.
The accrediation was extremely successful with the following commendations noted by the assessors:
- The quality of clinical notes was excellent
- The use of data management to ensure important clinical information was up to date was excellent, and the rates of recording are well above average
- The Treatment Room was extremely well organised and run
- The Quality Improvement process was one of the best they’d seen.
This was a real team effort and the reaccreditation recognises the high quality healthcare provided to patients by the team, and the systems and processes that support that delivery.
The Practice uses HotDoc as it’s online booking platform. In order to book an appointment online, HotDoc requires you to confirm the booking by using a credit or debit card.
The card is not charged until after the appointment takes place, but in order for the booking to be held, HotDoc will preauthorise the expected consultation fee at the time of booking.
This does not take any money from the card, but is a check that the card is active and has sufficient funds to pay for the expected consultation fee. The preauthorised amount is held for 7 days from the date of booking.
Hamilton Medical Centre has joined thousands of healthcare providers across Australia in registering in MyMedicare, a new voluntary registration system that will help us formalise the relationship between us and our patients.
MyMedicare allows you to nominate a general practice and general practitioner as your regular healthcare provider. When you register in MyMedicare, extra funding from the Australian Government becomes available to support our practice to provide more of the targeted care you need.
Patients who register with our practice in MyMedicare may benefit from:
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- longer MBS-funded telephone consultations
- longer bulk billed telehealth consultations for children under 16 and Commonwealth concession card holders at the new triple bulk billing rate
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Formalising the patient-practice relationship, like with MyMedicare, has been shown to improve health and wellbeing, and that is why we are inviting all of our regular patients to register in MyMedicare.
If you have a valid Medicare card or Department of Veterans’ Affairs (DVA) Veteran card and have had two face-to-face consultations with us in the last 24 months, you are eligible for MyMedicare.
Registration is easy. To register as a MyMedicare patient, you can:
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- fill out a paper registration form at our practice
- complete the registration process in your Medicare Online Account
- ask our team to start the registration process – you can then complete registration in your Medicare Online Account.
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Ask about MyMedicare next time you talk to us or visit our website. For more information visit www.health.gov.au/mymedicare.
