Vitalis Family Medical Practice in Kirrawee, New South Wales, Australia | Family medicine practice

Vitalis Family Medical Practice

Locality: Kirrawee, New South Wales, Australia

Phone: +61 2 8123 1133

Address: 550 Princes Highway 2232 Kirrawee, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.vfmp.com.au

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23.01.2022 We're pleased to introduce our Cosmetic Nurse injector, Samia Espin. Call us today for a free consultation.

22.01.2022 Our nurse Lis with Cr. Ann Dennis, NSW Aboriginal Land Council, Aunty Deanna Schreiber, Chair of Karranulla Aboriginal Corporation, Karina Crutch, Aboriginal Health and Wellbeing Programs Officer for the Central and Eastern Sydney PHN and Rachal Allan, Indigenous Programs Coordinator for the Cronulla Sharks at the #NAIDOC2020 Morning Tea. #alwayswasalwayswillbe

20.01.2022 Important opening time update effective Friday 18th September 2020

20.01.2022 We are currently experiencing technical difficulties with our phone lines due to a network issue. Our service provider has been in contact are working to rectify the matter. If you require urgent medical care please dial 000. We apologize for any inconvenience caused.

14.01.2022 We are pleased to announce that we are slowly but surely getting back to normal. From the 1st July 2020 we will be open from 7:00AM to 09:00PM Monday to Thursday, 7:00AM to 7:00PM Fridays. We will still offer bulk-billed telephone, video tele-health consults and face to face consults Monday to Friday. In the interest of public safety, we will triage ALL patients presenting with respiratory symptoms and continue to maintain strict social distancing rules. We are currently not resuming our walk-in clinic but will have 'on-the-day' appointments to ensure that we provide care to those who may urgently need it and patients are advised to call ahead before coming to the practice to check availability.

12.01.2022 Meet Our New GP, Dr Linda Crighton MBChB, MRCGP, FRACGP. Dr Linda Crighton trained in the UK and qualified as a GP in 2003 in Edinburgh. Prior to this she completed a Dentistry degree then worked as a dentist for 3 years. After completing her Medical degree, Linda worked in a variety of surgical specialties for 4 years before embarking on... a career in General Practice. She moved to Sydney in 1999 and worked at Ryde Hospital for 2 years before returning to Scotland to complete her GP training. She then worked in a variety of roles including General Practice, Health Assessments, Visa Medical Assessments and After-Hours GP Care. Linda finally returned to Sydney again in 2015 and has worked as a GP in the Inner West and Eastern Suburbs. Clinical Areas of Interest : Women's Health, Chronic Disease Management, Preventive Care and Medical Assessments. In her spare time Linda enjoys skiing and golfing and anything outdoors. She likes to relax and spend time with family and friends at weekends.

12.01.2022 Open Letter To Our Patients

10.01.2022 Saturday Hours Update

08.01.2022 Vitalis is pleased to announce that we have an Endocrinologist, Dr Ravind Pandher joining our team!

06.01.2022 General Practice - further de-funding by the Federal Government In another demoralising attack on General Practice by the Federal Government, from the 1st of August 2020 GPs will no longer be able to claim a Medicare rebate to analyse and report ECGs. This lifesaving feature of GP care is now being de-funded. Despite 6 or more years at University and 5 or more years of postgraduate training and rigorous examination standards the Federal Government has relegated GPs and our n...urses to the role of technicians. There is now only a much reduced rebate for GPs to perform an ECG, but not analyse it. There is no point performing an ECG if you don't analyse it. Ironically, a psychiatrist or orthopaedic surgeon with far less training in ECGs will be able to access a Medicare rebate for reporting an ECG. The Government, or perhaps more accurately its Department, seems to have missed the evolution of General Practice and that GPs are now Specialist qualification Generalists one of the most important segments of an efficient and functioning healthcare system. In practice this means the Medicare rebate available to YOU will be reduced and the out of pocket expense will be greater. In bulk billing practices this means patients will either need to be billed privately for the ECG, sent to Emergency department to do ECG or referred to a specialist and incur the associated out of pocket costs for this. This hamfisted policy initiative, along with GPs being the only health professional forced to accept the bulk billing rebate for telehealth shows that the Federal government has a strategic plan to gradually defund General Practice and pass those costs onto patients. IF this makes you half as angry as we are, please talk or write to your Federal MP. The local Federal MP for Cook is Scott Morrison and Craig Kelly is the Federal MP for the Hughes electorate.

05.01.2022 Meet Our New GP, Dr Omar Salem FRACGP, MBBS (UNSW) Dip Child Health (USYD) Dr Omar Salem is a General Practitioner, born and raised in Sydney. He graduated from UNSW with a Bachelor of Medicine/Surgery in 2012. He is a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners and has a Diploma in Child Health from The University of Sydney and worked at The Sutherland Hospital for years as a junior doctor before he completed his training. He has extensive training in Pa...ediatrics and Child Health having previously worked at both Sydney Children’s Hospital and The Children’s Hospital at Westmead. He also has solid experience in adult medicine, having completed two years of Basic Physician Training at Royal North Shore Hospital. He is both friendly and efficient. He understands the importance of respecting patients’ time. His main areas of interest are Paediatrics and Child Health, Men’s Health and is an LGBTQIA+ friendly GP.

01.01.2022 Our telephone service provider has advised us of a technical problem in the area which is causing disruptions to our phone lines. They are currently working to resolve the matter. If you require urgent medical care please call 000. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.