Farewells and Welcomes – July 2017
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Registrars
After spending the last 6 months with us we sadly say good-bye to registrar Dominique Baume who will be leaving us at the end of July. We wish her every success in the future with her exams and future placements. Dominique has certainly been a wonderful part of our practice over the past 6 months and we hope to see her back with us after she has completed her training.
At the same time we welcome Jessica Donaghue who will be joining us at the beginning of August for six months. We are also pleased that Olivia Rygorowicz and Evan McFarland have confirmed placements with us for the next six months. Please make Jessica feel welcome and she enjoys her time with us |
Medical Receptionist
We also welcomed a new medical receptionist in June, Christie. Christie comes to us with a prior medical practice experience and it is wonderful to see her smiling face on the desk. Please make her feel welcome when you next come into the practice
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Tea Tree Surgery Upgrade
Look for further exciting things happening at Tea Tree Surgery over the next month. We are going to give the surgery a complete make over with new carpet, repainting, installation of CCTV and the creation of a 3rd treatment room. The need for a 3rd new treatment room has largely come about because of the popularity of Dr Harb’s molescan clinic. July 2017
NBN
After considerable liaison and coordination with NBN and Telstra by our Practice manager, the NBN has finally been connected to St Agnes Surgery. It was connected to Tea Tree Surgery about three years ago. This should decrease the small number of data drop outs that we were having between our two surgeries and speed up data flow. There was some initial difficulty routing our phones through the NBN and we apologise for any difficulty you may have had contacting us during that time. There was also some difficulty diverting our phones from St Agnes to Tea Tree over the first week, so we apologise for any inconvenience this may have also caused, but all issues have been resolved. Now that we have our NBN connection out next aim will be establishing on line bookings. This should be available by the end of August. June 2017
Farewells and Welcomes - January 2017
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After spending the last 12 months with us we sadly say good-bye to our Registrars, Janet Davie and Emily Frost, who will be leaving at the end of January. We wish them success in their pending exams and future careers. Janet's famous morning teas will also be missed.
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At the same time we welcome new Registrars Dominique Baume and Olivia Rygorowicz who will commence consulting with in the next week and Evan McFarland who will commence consulting in March.
We hope that you will enjoy your time with us. Please make them feel welcome |
St Agnes Surgery and Tea Tree Surgery have completed the accreditation process for the triennium beginning 2017 and received high praise in all areas reviewed. Both St Agnes Surgery and Tea Tree Surgery recieved full accreditation which will remain current until January 2020.
The Practice wishes to thank all Doctors and Staff for their help in making it such a successful outcome.
The Practice wishes to thank all Doctors and Staff for their help in making it such a successful outcome.
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Farewell
Jane Kay started with St Agnes Surgery in 1993 and has seen many changes over the past 23 years. In December 2016 she decided that she would retire her nurse’s watch and spend more time improving her golf handicap and some precious time with her grandchildren. She has become a familiar face to many of our patients here at the St Agnes Surgery. Her quick wit and laughter will be missed by many of our regular patients and all of the Doctors and Staff here at St Agnes. While we are sad to see her go we wish her much happiness in her retirement and thank her for all the many years of service she has given to our practice.
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New Uniforms
Staff waited with anticipation for their new uniforms which arrived on 21/11/16. The Reception Staff have a wonderful bright cobalt blue top while the nurses have traded in their pink and green shirts for a bright burgundy. They all have matching charcoal grey trousers, jackets and jumpers. Please compliment staff if you like our new uniforms.
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ACCREDITATION
Patient survey results are now in for the trennium beginning 2017.
To see these results and what you said about our Practice please
click here.
Patient survey results are now in for the trennium beginning 2017.
To see these results and what you said about our Practice please
click here.
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Fees
Practice fees were reviewed effective from 1/11/16.
The Practice charges private fees and a 'gap' except for the following patients:
ZOSTAVAX Available
Free Zostavax is now available at our at our surgery (from November 2016) for patients 70 - 79 years of age. See the Vaccination page of our website for further details or click here.
These changes are forced on us because of a reduction in Medicare funding for after hours services and the fact that Medicare rebates have been fixed until 2018-19 - there will have been no rise for almost 5 years at that time - meanwhile all practice costs will be rising year on year - this freeze affects all general practices, not only St Agnes.
ECONOMY CLASS SYNDROME
There is now increasing awareness of the risks associated with long distance travel - particularly the risk of deep vein thrombosis. See Economy Class Syndrome to assess your risk and determine what preventive measures can be taken. MOLESCAN
Molescan is back from February 2016, courtesy of Dr. Harb. Be aware of the A,B,C,Ds of mole checking, looking for:
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