Deloraine and Westbury Medical Centres

Deloraine and Westbury Medical are taking new patients at both sites with a fee for the first visit and then bulk billed after that (some procedures excluded).

It includes a visit with the nurse to update details, update our clinical software and then the GP for the consultation.

Recruitment and retention of doctors in rural areas has been in the papers recently and it is a continuing hardship for practices in rural areas, such as Deloraine and Westbury.

We have attended many different reviews with government officials, local council members and other governing authorities to try and work on a solution to this problem.

Unfortunately, it is a combination of doctors and families not wanting to live outside major cities, their families having to establish new relationships in a new community, work life imbalances due to working on call, as well as with the local hospital and nursing homes.

D&WMC have worked extremely hard to recruit more doctors to our area increasing the number of doctors at our practice, we now have twelve GPs, although several are only part time.

At Deloraine we have extended our services to the community with extended hours opening later Wednesday and Friday nights until 7.30pm, plus the Saturday morning clinic.

 We have plans to hopefully increase that even more in the coming months to three days per week Monday, Wednesday and Friday 7.30am - 7.30pm, plus the normal Saturday.

At Westbury we have increased the number of doctors working from there and now have three doctors most days to help alleviate the shortage of GPs in Westbury and are planning to increase the services offered there as well.

We hope the community continues to show its support, giving our new doctors a warm welcome.