Services
Services available through our doctors, nurses, educators and health professionals in Colac include:
- providing supervision for hospital medical doctors (HMOs)
- acute medicine, including daily walk-in clinics
- inpatient medicine at Colac Hospital
- emergency medicine at Colac Hospital’s urgent care centre
- chronic disease management
- mental health
- paediatrics
- women’s health, including family planning, pap smears and pregnancy tests
- men’s health
- aged care and nursing home visits, including weekly nursing home ward rounds and urgent visits after hours
- palliative care at home, at Colac Hospital or at Anam Cara
- pregnancy and birthing care at Colac Hospital, led by our GP obstetricians
- anaesthetics at Colac Hospital , by our GP anaesthetists
- immunisations, including children’s vaccinations and travel vaccinations
- acupuncture
- lung function testing
- sports and musculoskeletal medicine
- wound care
- skin checks, skin cancer excisions and minor surgery
- contraception, including insertion of contraceptive devices (IUDs, Implanon) and vasectomies
- Q fever clinics
- dedicated diabetes education service led by nurse practitioners
- lung disease and asthma education led by nurse practitioners
- psychology and counselling
- occupational medicine, Workcover and return to work planning, pre-employment medicals
- armed forces and emergency service personnel and DVA medicine
- Transport Accident Commission (TAC) consults
- medical reports.