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Summer Holidays 2023/2024

Wishing you a healthy, happy, restful holiday season from our work whānau to your whānau!! We will be closing for the end-of-year break at 12 noon on Friday 22nd December 2023 and re-opening at 8am on 8th January 2024. During this period, the Ascot A&M and Lunn...

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Easter 2023 – Services Update And Fees Review

Staff Update Dr Rachel is back at work after the birth of her and Dr Norm's beautiful new baby girl last year. Dr Andrea is also back at work following her successful spinal surgery last year. Dr Siobhan (our locum for Dr Rachel's maternity leave) has joined our team....

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Staying Healthy in Your 60s: Tips for a Better Life

As you age, it's important to maintain your health and well-being. This is particularly true if you're in your 60s or older. Although it's never too late to start exercising, it's crucial to maintain consistency. The longer you remain active, the lower your risk of...

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Holiday hours, and how to access care over the break

MERI KIRIHIMETE and wishing you a healthy, happy, restful holiday season from our work whānau to your whānau!! We will be closing for the end-of-year break at 12 noon on Friday 23th December 2022 and re-opening at 8am on 9th January 2023. During this period, the Ascot...

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PORTAL RE-OPENS, TRIAGE PROCESS ENDS

PORTAL RE-OPENS, TRIAGE PROCESS ENDS Thank you for your patience and support over a very difficult 8 months for everyone. Our triage process served our patients well over this extra-ordinary time of hugely increased demand for our services and we were able to manage...

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Lung Cancer Awareness Month – November 2021

Lung Health Read the lung foundation flyer on lung cancer. Research undertaken in November 2013 found that only 37% of adults in New Zealand have ever talked to their doctor about the health of their lungs. Even amongst smokers, only four out of ten have talked to...

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NZ Primary Healthcare Awards 2021

Ellerslie Medical Centre was involved in a medicines safety project with Health Navigator. Health Navigator won the ACC Patient Safety award at the NZ Primary Healthcare Awards event. The entry focused on improving medicine safety through a range of resources. Jeremy...

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Staff Covid-19 Vaccination

We are still in the border worker stage of vaccination. However with this process there is occasionally some left over vaccine (it can't be stored for long when unfrozen) which is used at short notice for frontline healthcare workers. We got a call on Sunday 7th March...

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Christmas and New Year Hours and Services

We will be closing for the end-of-year break at 12 noon on Thursday 24th December 2020 and re-opening at 8am on 11th January 2021. During this period, the Ascot A&M and Lunn Ave A&M are our nearest facilities for urgent care. MEDICAL ADVICE OVER THE BREAK: The...

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Patient Portal is Changing

We are moving to ManageMyHealth as our new patient portal provider. Patients already registered will receive a welcome email with an activation code. You can register to the patient portal on our website, photo ID is required. This is available to our enroled patients...

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Mental Health Awareness Week 21-27 September 2020

This has been a difficult year to look after our mental health. Trying to maintain balance and harmony as we go about our everyday lives requires energy and commitment. Please look at this link to find useful tips to help you and your loved ones. Also have a look at...

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Caring for you safely at Level 2

We have had very robust infection control procedures from the start of the Pandemic, before the official lockdown, so that our patients and ourselves are not exposed to any infection while accessing care. We will continue these procedures as long as there is Covid-19...

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COVID-19 new testing criteria 3/4/20

There has unfortunately been some misreporting in the media about the new testing criteria released by the Ministry of Health on 3/4/20. Despite what some media groups are saying, testing is still being restricted, but there has been widening of the criteria.

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