Established in 1952, Panaceum Medical has been serving the community for many years. Located in the Panceum building at 233 Lester Avenue we have a dedicated team of male and female GPs, nurses and support staff focused on providing the very best health care for our patients.
Our services include:
- General Practice Doctors: both female and male doctors.
- Women’s Health and Men’s Health Checks
- Sexual Health: contraception advice and procedures including Implanon & Mirena
- Mental Health
- Skin checks
- Allergy Testing
- Minor Surgery
- Obstetrics GPs
- Anaesthetic GPs
- Travel Clinic GP: travel health advice and onsite vaccinations and medications
- Chronic Disease Careplans, over 75 health assessments and CVC (DVA) careplans
- Nurses’ treatment room
Our nurses treatment room provides the following health care services:
Dressings, Immunisations (including childhood vaccinations), INR (International Normalised Ratio) Checks, Venesections, Sutures Removal and Sick Children’s Care (as our policy states, we will do our best to see children on the day that contact is made with Panaceum)
Our Panaceum Centre provides clients with access to a wide range of health services in one convenient location, enabling better coordination of care for clients.
Co-located within our centre we also have:
- Panaceum Allied Health
- Panaceum Industrial Health
- Panaceum Injury Management & Fitness Centre
- Tarts & Co Cafe
- Optimal Pharmacy
- Australian Clinical Labs Pathology
More about Panaceum Medical
Monday - Friday: 8.00am – 5.00pm
If urgent medical care is required outside of opening hours, please contact Geraldton Regional Hospital, Shenton Street. Phone 9956 2222
Routine appointments are ten minutes. If you feel you need a longer appointment, please let the reception staff know this when booking the appointment.
Your doctor may occasionally be delayed. You can always ring to know if your doctor is running on time. Please try not to be late for your appointment as this means other patients will be subsequently delayed.
Our practice has a doctor on call everyday. We will endeavour to see our patients on the same day if the patient considers their problem to be urgent enough.
If you are admitted into the SJOG hospital, your usual doctor, or a doctor from the group will take over your care the next working day.
We are a private billing practice. This means that you may incur an out of pocket cost for your visit. We do require payment on the day of service. For Medicare eligible services we can send your Medicare claims on the day for a quick payment back into your nominated bank account. Any consumables, such as dressings, use of sterile kits, private vaccines and infusion kits are not covered by Medicare and will be an additional out of pocket cost. We offer discounted rates for Pensioners and Health Care Card holders.
If you cancel your appointment, please do so at least 24 hours beforehand so that another patient may use that appointment. Late cancellations or missed appointments will incur a cancellation fee.
Telehealth with your GP
There is Medicare support for regular patients to the practice (seen in the last 12 months) to use telehealth where it is appropriate.
We use telehealth as standard to provide care for people with any Upper Respiratory Tract Infection (URTI) symptoms, commonly associated with coughs, cold & flu symptoms and sore throats. This is part of our Covid-19 response to prevent patients with common URTI symptoms coming in to the practice. We prefer to use video for this consults so that the GP can see you.
We also use telehealth as a convenient way for you to order repeat medication. Your GP will provide a short consult to check your medication request and we will send the prescription straight to your pharmacy.
Telehealth can also be used where you are isolated, quarantined or it is difficult for you to physically attend the practice. If you believe you would benefit from a telehealth consult, speak with our receptionists or your GP at your next consult.
We use a video platform called Coviu. You do not need to download anything, just follow a link supplied by our practice on your smart phone, tablet or PC at your appointment time. Alternatively, you can go to our website and click "Join Video Consult" for your GP or Allied Health appointment. We have a help sheet Video Consult Information too.
If you do not have the technology for video, we can arrange a phone call from the practice.
Telehealth with your Specialist
Your GP may refer you to a specialist that offers telehealth for your appointment. Often, this can be arranged between you and the specialist. However, there are occasions where your GP and specialist feel it would be best that you are supported by your GP or another health professional (like a nurse). We can assist you if you have limited technology and host the telehealth appointment with your specialist at the practice for a small fee.
Your GP may request that you undergo some tests; these can be pathology tests (i.e. blood / urine), histology (i.e. skin / tissue samples) or imaging (i.e. X-ray, US, MRI). It is important to contact the practice to ensure we have your test results. Bloods test results can take 3-5 working days, skin samples can be longer and imaging can be 1-14 days plus. Please ask the person providing the testing to give you an idea of how long it will take to get results to your GP. It is best to call us for results after 9am when the phones are less busy. We may call you to arrange a follow-up appointment or give advice. We do not contact patients for results that have no further action required.
A change table and other facilities for parents with babies are available in the toilet blocks.
The Panaceum Group has a policy to see unwell children the day that contact is made.
We value your comments, as we keep striving to improve our service! Suggestions, compliments or complaints should be forwarded in writing to our Practice Manager, P.O. Box 7, Geraldton WA 6531.
For any matters we cannot resolve or should you be unsatisfied with resolution of your complaint please contact the Health and Disability Services Complaints Office’s (HaDSCO). Phone (08) 6551 7600.