TGPN — Practice Profile

Background & History:

Hermit Park Clinic and Skin Cancer Care is an AGPAL accredited practice, located at 222 Charters Road, Hermit Park, just next door to Red Rooster. The practice has been established for over 20 years and is owned by Dr Greg Canning and Dr Peter Carson

Practice Philosophy:

We are dedicated to providing high quality traditional general practice, with our emphasis being the family. Our commitment is to care of the whole patient and to consider emotional as well as physical needs. We aim to not only treat illness but to prevent it, and promote health.

Contact Details:

Practice Manager: Desley Wyburg
Practice Principal: Dr Gregory Canning and Dr Peter Carson

Phone: 4725 5355
Fax: 4725 5025
Email: desleywyburg@hermitparkclinic.com
Website: www.hermitparkclinic.com.au
Address:

222 Charters Towers Road
PO Box 3224
Hermit Park
QLD 4812.

Opening Hours:

Monday to Friday 8am to 6pm
Saturday 8am to 12noon

Building:

Waiting Rooms:                                   2
Consulting Rooms:                             9
Treatment Rooms:                              1
Surgical Theatres:                               2
Scrub Room:                                        1
Pre Employment Medical Room:     1
Psychologist Rooms:                         1

Equipment:

• equipment for emergency resuscitation including intubation/ventilation and defibrillation - the clinic has an automatic defibrillator, laryngoscopes with and IV fluid trolley
• ceiling mounted halogen operating lights in theatres and wall mounted Heini halogen exam lights in every room
• halogen head0light, protective eyewear and magnification loupes
• dermatoscopes in areas where doctors use this examination mod
• computerised spirometer, 24 hr ambulatory BP measurement sampler with computer-based summary and analysis
• PC-based audiometry
• digital ear thermometers
• X-ray viewing box in each consulting room
• interpretive electrocardiograph
• height adjustable beds
• sound proof booth for hearing tests
• AS 4184 compliant sterilising equipment and procedures
• Molemax II digital mole imaging and surveillance machine
• range of cameras and dedicated fittings for clinical photography
• Metvix PDT light source

Doctors:

• Dr Gregory Canning

Areas of Interest: Skin cancer



• Dr Peter Carson

Areas of Interest: Family medicine, Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Surgery



• Dr Christine Askin

Areas of Interest:  Family Medicine, Women's Health and Child Health



• Dr Jocelyn Melville

Areas of Interest: Family Medicine



• Dr Natalia Smithson

Areas of Interest: Family medicine



• Dr Di McAlister

Areas of Interest: Family medicine, Women’s Health



• Dr David McManus

Areas of interest: Family medicine



• Dr Alec Stereff

Areas of interest: Travel medicine, Family medicine



• Dr Karl Horsburgh

Areas of Interest: Family Medicine



• Dr Robert Gower

Areas of interest: General practice and Musculo – skeletal Medicine.

Other Staff:

Psychologist: Manya Scheftsik

Nursing: Katie Johnson, Joan Lindsay and Michelle Daniel

Administration: Stevi Kinman, Juanita Costello, Rhonda Payne and Sue Vandborg

Practice Manger: Desley Wyburg

Commercial Manager: Angela Arthur

Services:

Hermit Park Clinic and Skin Cancer Care provide a comprehensive range of services including:

• Full immunisation service from infancy to adulthood (including most travel immunisation)
• Health assessment and care plans
• Women's health (including routine pap smears and breast examinations)
• Family planning services (including doctors qualified to place contraceptive implants, IUD's and to perform vasectomies)
• Shared ante-natal care
• Children's health and development
• Spinal treatment
• Skin Cancer
• Palliative care
• Corporate health (including pre-employment medicals)
• Menopause counseling and care
• Insurance and licence medicals
• Home, nursing home and hospital visits

Other health professionals in practice: Pathology, Physiotherapy and Psychology.

Page last modified: 15 Aug 2008


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