Our mission is to provide a fully equipped, patient-centred, General Practitioner-led, team-based environment in which a comprehensive, coordinated and integrated approach to wrap-around health and wellness support enables every member of our community to achieve optimal health.
Effective Monday 14th October 2024 Medicare bulk-billing will only be available between 12pm to 4pm, Monday to Friday for children under the age of 16, Aged Pension or Health Care Card holders. Doctors Nazmul Hoque and Vassili Lapchine bulk-bill before 5pm, Monday to Friday for Medicare card holders of children under the age of 16, Aged Pension or Health Care Card holders. Telehealth is not bulk billed. All other patients, or outside of these times including Saturdays will attract a private fee.
Masks are now optional whilst in the Clinic. Please bring your own mask. A fail to attend fee applies for all appointments booked and not attended. If you are unable to attend, please advise the clinic 6 business hours prior to your appointment.
Dear Patients, We would like to inform you of an upcoming change to our bulk-billing policy at Emerald Medical Centre, effective from Monday, 14th October 2024. All patients, doctors, nurses, and staff at Emerald Medical Centre are aware that Government support of Bulk Billing in General has degraded over the past 15 years. Emerald Medical…
Read MoreDr. Ian (Spud) Mcleod Murphy was an old-style doctor who came to Emerald in the early 1950’s after a distinguished career in the Navy. He soon became the beloved affable GP most of the older people of the area remember as the first GP in the Hills. He established the Emerald Medical Centre in the old Post Office....
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