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About Us

Echuca Moama Family Medical Practice has been Supporting the Echuca Moama Community for over 42 years. We currently have 18 GP’s consulting from our rooms. We are committed to providing quality healthcare to the rural community in a professional caring and compassionate manner. Our operating values of Respect, Integrity, Collaboration and Excellence guide all our interactions and are the measures to which we hold ourselves.

Since opening in 1975 as Nish Street Medical Practice we have undergone several expansions in a bid to provide better facilities and more room for our patients. Operating from 2 clinics our aim is to maintain the feel of a local family practice whilst providing the highest level of medical care. Our Moama clinic services the community of Moama on the NSW side of the Murray River. In 2012 we opened a new purpose built teaching practice offering a working environment that encourages our staff to develop strong relationships with patients, helping us provide better health care and provide an optimal teaching environment for our GP’s in the education of the Medical Students, Interns and Registrars that we have placed with us each year.

Echuca Moama Family Medical Practice has a long history of providing training to students of the medical field, we remain committed to continuing this and developing medical practitioners that have a focus on quality patient care. Our strong relations with Echuca Regional Health allows us to offer our GP’s opportunities to undertake hospital work, specialisations in Obstetrics, Anaesthetics and Emergency Medicine  as well as Visiting Medical Officer (VMO) appointments.

A variety of educational sessions are available for continuing medical education including regular lectures, trauma medicine tutorials and regular journal club meetings covering a broad range of rural medical topics and providing peer support. With close proximity to Bendigo and Shepparton we also have access to regional educations sessions and meetings.
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Our GP’s have a wide range of special medical interests including:
     
·         General Consulting
·         Gynaecology
·     Dietetics 
·         Obstetrics
·         Paediatrics
·         Aged Care
·         Women and Men’s Health
·         Minor Surgery
·         Emergency Medicine
·         Mental Health
·         Pain Management
·         Pregnancy and Birth
·         Chronic Disease Management
·         Work Cover
·         Podiatry

Some of our services include bulk billing for children under 15 yrs and under, Skin Check Clinics, Pap Smear Clinics, Spirometry, ECG’s, Immunisation Clinics, Flu Clinics, Medicals, Minor Procedures and INR Clinics.
For the convenience of our patients we have an Australian Clinical Labs, Pathology collection centre on located at each clinic.
 

Multi Disciplinary Practices

WE OFFER THE FOLLOWING SERVICES

• General Consulting
• Womens Health
• Gynaecology
• Obstetrics
• Paediatrics
• Minor Surgery
• ​Exercise Physiology
• ​Dietitian Services
  
• ​Diabeties Education
• Life Program - Diabetes Prevention 
• Podiatry  
• Immunisation​
• Opthamology

• ​Co-ordinated Veterans Care Program 
• Health Promotion Clinic 
• Anaesthetic Checks 
• Pathology Collection Centre
• Victorian & NSW Workcover Services
• Sleep Apnea Studies
• The Anna Centre (Psychology)
• Vaccines
• Asthma Education
• ​Osteopathy
• Over 75 Year Old Health Assessments
• Smoking Cessation Support

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Prevention Is Better Than Cure

When it comes to our health, prevention is much better than cure.
Many diseases and injuries are preventable, and can be managed much better, minimising the impact on our lives if identified earlier on. ​A regular check-up with your doctor helps them to assess your overall health and to identify your risk factors for disease.

​"Echuca Moama Family Medical Practice has been nothing but wonderful to me! I'm a long time patient and have nothing but great words to say the girls on reception are so lovely and very approachable and supportive, the doctors are amazing.

​The team at the practice and the doctors just know how to brighten my day after a visit even if it's just with their smiles !"

​A Wills.

Affordable Health Care

"Australia has one of the most affordable, accessible and comprehensive healthcare systems in the world. The Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing promotes good health and ensure all Australians have access to key health and family services including:

• aged and community care services
• family and children's services
• disability programmes
• public health initiatives
• medicare and pharmaceutical benefits
• hospital and healthcare funding
• health services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders
• emergency services for people in crisis.

The Commonwealth has developed a broad policy of leadership and financing in health matters and focuses on the areas of public health, research and national information management while the states and territories are largely responsible for the delivery of public sector health services and the regulation of health workers in the public and private sectors."

SOURCE: www.heti.nsw.gov.au/international-medical-graduate/australian-healthcare-system/

Our Fees

SERVICE	FEE	MEDICARE REBATE
GENERAL CONSULTATIONS	$75.00	$38.20
SHORT CONSULTATIONS	$38.00	$17.50
LONG CONSULTATIONS	$110.00	$73.95
PENSIONERS 9am-6pm (Mon-Fri)	$65.00	$38.20
SATURDAY APPOINTMENTS ​10am-12pm (Sat)	$85.00	$38.20
HOME VISITS (BUSINESS HOURS)	$102.00	$64.95
HOME VISITS (AFTER HOURS - Before 11pm)	$187.00	$74.95
HOME VISITS (AFTER HOURS - After 11pm)	$205	$74.95
CANCELLATIONS	Fee	The practice requires appointments to be cancelled no less than 4 hours prior to appointment time or a fee will be incurred.
CHILDREN 15YRS & UNDER ​	Bulk Billed	N/A

Your Health. How Important Is It To You?

 A healthy body sets the stage for your day-to-day well-being and how well you will age. Maintaining fitness through good nutrition and exercise promotes efficient circulation, digestion and musculoskeletal strength. This allows you to live an active life, and a healthy immune system helps youward off disease.​

At Echuca Moama Family Medical Practice, we assist you achieve optimum health for the benefit of yourself, primarily and your family. Promoting regular check ups as a priority for our customers, our health providers promote overall well being, longevity and quality of life. 

Professional Services

GENERAL PRACTIONERS

The general practitioner (GP) plays a central role in the delivery of health care to the Australian community. 
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 In Australia, the GP:

• Is most likely the first point of contact in matters of personal health
• Coordinates the care of patients and refers patients to other specialists
• Cares for patients in a whole of person approach and in the context of their work, family and community
• Cares for patients of all ages, both sexes, children and adults across all disease categories
• Cares for patients over a period of their lifetime
• Provides advice and education on health care
• Performs legal processes such as certification of documents or provision of reports in relation to motor transport or work accidents

SOURCE :The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners

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PRACTICE NURSES 

General practice nursing in Australia identified four different, but overlapping, dimensions of PN responsibilities:

• clinical care: reflects the nurse’s responsibility to undertake clinical based procedures and activities
• clinical organisation: reflects the responsibility to undertake activities that require management, coordination and higher level administration of clinical activities, particularly a systems approach
• practice administration: reflects the responsibility to undertake activities that provide administrative support to the general practice as a business enterprise, and
• integration that reflects the responsibility to develop effective communication channels within the practice and between the practice and outside organisations and individuals.

SOURCE :The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners

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ALLIED SERVICES

Allied health: delivering the right service by the right practitioner in the right place at the right time

The allied health workforce in Australia is comprised of allied health professionals and other technicians, assistants and support workers who work with allied health professionals.

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