Our GP practice has team members who work alongside your doctor and nurses to provide you with a range of mental wellbeing supports and tools. These team members may include Health Improvement Practitioners (HIPs), Health Coaches and Support Workers.

View the following link for more information about wellbeing support in general practice and the national Access & Choice programme.

Our niche is women’s health, so we understand your needs implicitly and provide a welcoming and supportive environment for all women.  You can access support, advice and treatment for a variety of women specific health needs. We support women in our community to stay well. Talk to us about your health needs woman to woman.

• Adult flu vaccine
• Measles / Mumps / Rubella (MMR) vaccine
• Travel vaccinations
• Shingles vaccine
• Diphtheria / Tetanus / Pertussis (whooping cough) vaccine
• Child flu vaccine
• Meningococcal vaccine
• 65 year old vaccinations
• 45 year old vaccinations
• Pregnancy vaccinations
• Childhood immunisation programme
• Catch-up missed vaccinations
• Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine
• Privately funded vaccinations
• COVID-19 vaccination and boosters
• Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine

Immunisation is the safest and most effective way to provide protection for you and your tamariki’s health. For more information view the NZ immunisation schedule.

• Cervical screening

Health screening tests check for health conditions or early warning signs of disease.

Another service offered to you at your GP surgery (primary care practice) is advice and immunisation before you go to another country. While you are likely to have the immunisations needed to live in New Zealand, there may be other injections you need to protect yourself before going for example to Africa or South America. In some places you will need protection from rabies or malaria. Yellow fever vaccinations are only available at approved centres; please click here to view the centres in New Zealand. Your doctor will be able to tell you what diseases you will need to be protected from in any named country and advise you on other medical matters. 

All women and people with a cervix aged 25 – 69 who have ever had intimate skin-to-skin contact or been sexually active should have regular cervical screening. This includes women who have been immunised against HPV. Together, regular screening and HPV immunisation provide the best protection against cervical cancer.

There are now more options for how you have cervical screening done:

• a simple vaginal swab test for HPV, either done yourself or with help from a healthcare professional
• a cervical sample taken by a healthcare professional (used to be known as a smear test).

Talk with your healthcare provider to decide which option is best for you.

If HPV is found, you may need to have a follow-up test or be referred directly for colposcopy.

If you’ve not yet had HPV testing, you should be screened 3 years after your last test (or 1 year if immune deficient). Once you have had an HPV test, and providing HPV is not found, your next screening will be in 5 years (or 3 years if immune deficient).

For more information: Cervical screening | Time to Screen - National Screening Unit

• Implant (Jadelle) inserts
• IUD inserts
• IUD removals
• Implant (Jadelle) removal

LARC methods are very effective at preventing unplanned pregnancy and are “fit and forget” forms of contraception – you don’t need to remember them every day or every month. LARC methods:

• Intrauterine Contraceptive Devices (IUCD or IUD) are inserted through the cervix into a woman’s uterus. IUCDs may be either hormonal (Mirena^® or Jaydess^{® )} or non-hormonal (copper IUCD).
• Jadelle^® is a hormone-releasing implant that is inserted just under the skin of the upper arm.

Depending on the type of device, it will need to be changed after between three and ten years.

Read more about LARC methods here

An ECG is a recording of your heart's electrical activity. Electrode patches are attached to your skin to measure the electrical impulses given off by your heart. The result is a trace that can be read by a doctor. It can give information of previous heart attacks or problems with the heart rhythm.

Sometimes your doctor needs to take a sample of blood or urine either to discover what is wrong with you or to measure something in your blood so that the right medication is given to you. These tests could be anything from blood sugar to a full blood count or a sample of tissue to test for cancer.

While urine can generally be tested in the surgery, blood and other specimens are usually sent away for testing at a laboratory. Most results come back within 48 hours unless a very rare test is needed which has to go to a specialist lab further away when it might take a little longer.

Spirometry is a tool that measures how effectively your lungs are working. It can show how much air lungs are able to hold (their volume) and how much air can be breathed in and out (inhaled and exhaled) which is called flow. It can be used to diagnose problems of breathing and monitor the usefulness of treatment. The test involves taking a deep breath in and blowing out as hard as you can into a hollow tube attached to a spirometer machine. You will be asked to do the test several times. The whole process takes 15 - 30 minutes depending on whether you are given some inhaled medicine and asked to do it again to monitor if there is an improvement. Read more about Spirometry on the Healthify website

Peak flow meter This is a small hand-held tube that can measure what is happening in your breathing tubes. You can have one at home and measure your peak flow by blowing into it as hard and fast as possible. You will be shown how to measure it and compare it with what you can blow when you are well as part of your asthma management plan if you think you are having an asthma attack. For more information view on the Healthify website

For emergencies, our clinic can offer quick, discreet assistance. If you require this service please let us know ASAP, so we can organise a priority booking for you.

Screening for STIs is a positive step towards staying well. We encourage you to get tested for your peace of mind and to look after your health. Our private and supportive clinic provides a discreet and non-judgmental environment to carry out and discuss your STI screening. Laboratory tests are free for New Zealand residents, however there may be charges for non-residents. There will be a charge for your appointment with the nurse. This can be advised over the phone prior to your appointment. For information about STI’s including what symptoms you should be concerned about you can find out here.

Healthy, happy and safe staff, and therefore better productivity, are a huge benefit to businesses.  With pre-employment health assessments and ongoing check-ups where needed, you can monitor and improve the health and well-being of your employees. Monitoring the wellbeing of your workforce is important for Health & Safety in the workplace and crucial for frontline risk management.

Each GP surgery or primary care practice will have its own procedure for repeat prescribing but the following rules are common to most, if not all. Patients who are well-known to the practice who have a stable condition like asthma, hypertension or diabetes could be allowed to get a repeat prescription for up to six months. Repeat prescriptions are never given to patients who are not known to the practice and there is probably a blanket ban on repeats for narcotics and other drugs that could be misused as doctors are expected to monitor these drugs carefully.

Your GP's surgery is far more than a place to go when you are feeling unwell and needing a quick cure. The doctor who sees you has gone through an extensive medical training to equip her or him to help children and adults of all ages with a range of physical and emotional difficulties. GPs are at the centre of the healthcare hub and will be aware of services and expertise that are available locally and further-a-field. GPs are also aware of the link that stress and unhappy life events have on physical health so know when to suggest a talking therapy rather than medication.