Patient Information
The clinic is easily accessible from the car park with no steps to negotiate and wide front doors for easy wheelchair access.
We allow 10 to 15 minutes for a normal consultation. If you feel you need a longer time please let the staff member know when making the appointment and we can book a double appointment time.
So we can assist you appropriately please let the staff know if you have an urgent medical problem e.g chest pain, acute asthma/difficulty breathing, extreme/acute pain.
Longer appointments will be required when booking for
- an insurance medical
- employment medical
- complete health check
- heavy vehicle driving medical
- taxi medical
- minor surgical procedures, including Implanon removal or insertion
If you are not able to keep your appointment we would appreciate a phone call to let us know. We may be able to give your appointment to someone else who is in need of a Doctors appointment.
We can organise a translating service, please let us know when booking your appointment if you require a translator or are hearing impaired and need an interpreter booked.
Fee change / Payroll Tax
The South Australian government has decided that General Practice clinics will have to pay Payroll Tax on funds received by doctors, starting July 1 2024. To recoup this cost, there will be a fee increase on all payments. By law, no additional fee can be added to bulk billed attendances, so services that are bulk billed will continue to be bulk billed.
This is a complicated issue. If you are interested, please keep reading.
General Practitioners at most clinics in Australia contract the clinic to provide adminstrative and nursing services, IT and utilities, rent and all other associated services. Payments from patients go the GP, who then pays a percentage to the clinic. This arrangement also means that GPs do not receive holiday, sick or parental leave. They do not get superannuation and are responsible for their own professional insurance and continuing professional development. They work the hours and days that they prefer. This has been the model for many years.
In recent years, State Revenue Offices have been reviewing this model and have determined that the payments GPs receive are wages and that payroll tax is applicable.
This clinic has always been registered for payroll tax for the administrative and nursing staff but has not previously reached the threshold to be required to pay payroll tax. The above ruling means that these wages and payments received by doctors are now included in the payroll tax liability.
