The Mount Street Medical Centre opened in February 2000. It is a fully accredited practice, committed to true family medicine, and is a collaborative venture of three local general practitioners. We are committed to providing comprehensive care to all individuals and family.
The clinical team
The Doctors are assisted by our Practice Nurses who may be involved in your care, they assist the doctors with care plans, health assessments, immunisations, wound care or attending to emergency patients.
Urgent Medical Care
If you need to speak to the doctor about an urgent matter medical problem, please explain this clearly to the medical receptionist. If your doctor is not immediately available the call with be transferred to our practice nurse.
Appointments
Consultations are by appointment only; however, cases of emergency and emergency telephone calls will be promptly dealt with.
The practice has a flexible appointment system; standard appointments are made at 15 minute intervals. Urgent and longer appointments are available. Please specify which doctor you would like to see and the length of consultation that you require at the time of booking.
Please note telehealth/ ( consult via video link with GP) is not available at our clinic.
Late cancellations or non attendance
While we understand that life gets busy from time to time, we would appreciate notice of 24 hours in advance of your scheduled appointment.
At present we are not able to provide telehealth/ ( video link with GP) as a consult option.
Fee information
Consultations and procedures are privately billed by each practitioner as per the schedule in the surgery. The fee paid includes a component that is reimbursed by Medicare and an ‘out of pocket’ amount.
List of Current fees are :
Standard Fee (in person visit) $82
Long Visit (in person visit ) $132
Phone Consult Fee $82
Out of pocket approx $40
From 1st October 2022 Health card Holders & Senior Health Care Card Holders will no longer be bulk billed.
New fees for Health care holders are :
Standard (in person visit ) $56
Long visit ( in person visit) $93
Phone consult Fee $56
Out of pocket approx $15
Saturday no bulk Billing available (all pensioner & social security card holders) will be charged a fee
Pensioners, and Veterans’ Affairs gold card holders are bulk billed.
Most small procedures, such as removal of a skin lesion, are bulk billed.
Payment is required at time of consualtion.
Payments accepted are cash ,EFT, Visa, Mastercard.
Medical Students
Our practice has agreed to supervise medical students from the University of Melbourne as they learn about general practice. Students spend time with our doctors, nurse, and reception staff and with other health professionals. During their time at our practice they will observe consultations, conduct procedures, interview and examine patients under the supervision of your doctor. Please inform the reception staff if you do not want a medical student involved for all or part of your consultation.
