📋 List of GP Services
Leeton Medical Practice offers a wide range of primary health care services focused on continuity of care, health promotion, and disease prevention for all age groups.
- 🩺 General Consultations and Preventive Health
- General Consultations: Diagnosis and management of acute illnesses (e.g., infections, minor injuries) and chronic conditions.
- Chronic Disease Management: Development and review of GP Care Plans  and Team Care Arrangements (TCAs) for conditions such as diabetes, asthma, hypertension, and heart disease.
- Preventive Health Checks: Annual health assessments for different age groups, including 75+ Health Assessments and 45-49 Year Old Health Checks.
- Health Promotion and Screening: Guidance on cancer screening (e.g., bowel, cervical, breast screening) and lifestyle risk factor modification (smoking, diet, exercise).
- Medication Reviews: Regular review of all prescribed medications.
- 👶 Women’s, Men’s, and Children’s Health
- Women’s Health: Pap smears (Cervical Screening Tests), breast checks, contraception advice (including Implanon insertion/removal), and menopause management.
- Men’s Health: Prostate checks, cardiovascular risk assessment, and men’s mental health support.
- Child Health and Immunisations: Newborn checks, routine childhood immunisations (following the National Immunisation Program schedule), and developmental assessments.
- Antenatal and Postnatal Shared Care: Working with the local hospital to provide shared care for pregnant women before and after delivery.
- 🩹 Procedures and Minor Surgery
- Minor Surgical Procedures: Removal of minor skin lesions (e.g., warts, skin tags), draining of abscesses, and biopsies.
- Wound Care: Management of chronic wounds, wound dressings, and sutures for minor cuts and lacerations.
- Cryotherapy: Treatment of warts and sunspots using liquid nitrogen.
- 💉 Vaccinations and Travel Medicine
- Routine Adult Vaccinations: Influenza (flu), Pneumonia, Shingles, and Whooping Cough (Pertussis).
- Travel Medicine: Travel health advice, risk assessment, and required travel vaccinations (e.g., Hepatitis A/B, Typhoid). Please book an appointment well in advance.
- 🧠Mental Health and Counselling
- Mental Health Care Plans (MHCPs): Preparation of plans to access subsidised psychological counselling (through Medicare).
- Mental Health Support: General mental health assessment, counselling, and referral to specialist services.
- 💼 Occupational and Other Services
- Work-Related Injuries: Assessment and management of workplace injuries (Workers Compensation).
- Driving Medicals: Completion of medical forms for commercial and private driver license applications.
- Referrals: Referral to specialists, physiotherapists, pathologists, and other allied health professionals.