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All Medicare-eligible consultations are bulk billed for patients with a valid Medicare card. Some items, including privately purchased vaccines and consumables, attract a fee.
Renewing a medicine is a chance to check it is still the right one, still the right dose, and still doing what it was meant to do. That is why it needs an appointment.
Standard GP consultations are bulk billed for everyone with a valid Medicare card.Most long-term medicines need reviewing at least once a year, and some more often. A script appointment is short, but it is a proper check: is the dose still right, are there side effects you have stopped mentioning, has anything else changed that interacts with it.
Prescribing without seeing you means prescribing without knowing what has changed. For most medicines a short appointment is safer and it is bulk billed.
For many stable long-term medicines your GP can prescribe two months' supply on one script, which means fewer pharmacy trips and lower cost. Not every medicine is eligible — ask at your next review.
Ring us. Your pharmacist may also be able to supply a small emergency amount for some medicines while you get an appointment.
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Including anything from another doctor, the supermarket, or a herbalist.
Side effects, cost, timing, whether you still need it at all.
If another practice or a specialist has done bloods, bring the report.
Deprescribing is a real conversation, particularly as people get older.
Ask whether your medicine is eligible for two months on one script.
Book online or by phone. Say it is for a script review so the right length is set aside.
For some stable medicines, yes, if you have been seen here recently. Certain medicines always need a face-to-face appointment.
Electronic prescriptions can be sent to your phone or email, and you choose the pharmacy. Say what suits you.
We work with local pharmacies on packed medicines. If organising doses is getting hard, raise it — that is exactly the sort of thing worth fixing.
Repeat prescriptions
Bulk billed
60-day dispensing available
Medication reviews
Book ahead, not on the last tablet
Webster pack support
Telehealth for some scripts
Home Medicines Review
Repeat prescriptions
Bulk billed
60-day dispensing available
Medication reviews
Book ahead, not on the last tablet
Webster pack support
Telehealth for some scripts
Home Medicines Review
Repeat prescriptions
Bulk billed
60-day dispensing available
Medication reviews
Book ahead, not on the last tablet
Webster pack support
Telehealth for some scripts
Home Medicines Review
For most medicines, yes. It is a short appointment and it is bulk billed.
About a week before you run out.
Many stable long-term medicines are eligible. Ask at your next review.
Some, for existing patients on stable medicines. Reception can tell you whether yours qualifies.
Speak to your pharmacist — for many medicines they can supply a small emergency quantity. Otherwise Muswellbrook Hospital, or healthdirect on 1800 022 222.
Yes. If you take several medicines, a pharmacist review at home can be arranged through us.
Not without their involvement, unless you are their legal decision-maker. Ring and we will explain what is possible.
Some require an authority, and some — including controlled medicines — have strict rules and always need a face-to-face appointment.
General information onlyThis page is general health information for anyone who finds it useful. It is not advice about your own situation and it does not replace a consultation with a doctor who knows you. If you are worried about a symptom, book an appointment or call (02) 6530 7404. In an emergency, call 000.
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