Kialla Medical Clinic

8025 Goulburn Valley Highway

03 5823 5446

03 58235114

http://kiallamedical.com.au/

We are a highly regarded practice and pride our self on offering exceptional patient care and best practice outcomes. We employ a small team of doctors and have a fantastic supportive administrative and nursing team to compliment our Doctors. The Practices are locally owned for over over 40 years.

We are fully Accredited Practices with the RACGP, with 2 locations, based in Country Victoria. We are also a recognised Accredited Training Practice for Registrars. We are a computerised , paperless practice managed by an an experienced Management Team.

The practice offers full nursing support, pathology on site, and a loyal patient base. We have Psychology and Podiatry services. A Pharmacy is co located to both Practices and both have onsite Pathology services.

The team at Mooroopna Medical Centre and Kialla Medical Clinic are travel specialists when it comes to preparing for safe travels. We also hold Q fever and Rabies clinics throughout the year. The clinic itself has a Travel Clinics Australia affiliation and on the topic of health and safety in relation to travel we have our fingers on the pulse of potential current world health and danger issues. Purchases of all manner of travel aids can be made at the Kialla Medical Clinic or online at www.goodtrips.org where you’ll also find a wealth of travel information including current travel warnings and advice.

We also offer General Medical Services such as Women’s Health, Men’s Health, Immunisations and Chronic Condition Care such as Diabetes, Heart Disease, Asthma, etc. Dr David Ball also specializes in Gastric Band (Lap-Band) adjustments.

Operating hours are from 8.00 am to 5:30 pm Monday to Friday and 9.00 am to 12.00 pm on Saturdays. As a family friendly practice, flexible working hours are also on offer.

Number of doctors	8
Number of supervisors	2
Number of visiting specialists	0
Number of rooms	9
Billing	Mixed
Allied health professionals	Podiatry and Psychology

Nursing Staff

Lisa – Our Senior Nurse who has been with the practice for over 3 years. She specialises in Diabetes Management of our patients.
Emma – Works Full-time and recently commenced with us after moving from NSW. She enjoys assisting Doctors with Minor Surgical Procedures and Travel Health
Fern – Works 4 days a week and mainly at our Mooroopna Practice. She enjoys doing care plans for our patients and assisting them to manage their Chronic Disease/s
Fiona – Started with our Practice just a short while ago and she is enjoying her work co-coordinating all of our Nursing Home Residents for the Doctors.

Additional learning opportunities

Small group learning, Clinical meetings, Assisting with procedures, Other

Supervisor special interests

Dr Elizabeth Knight – Highly talented and experienced General Practitioner. AHPRA licensed GP who has always lived and worked locally in both hospital and General Practice. With over 37 years of experience in Primary Health Care settings, and an in depth understanding of current healthcare issues. A confident communicator with patients, and families making timely decisions and providing appropriate follow through.Well respected, disciplined and confident Health Professional

Dr David Ball – Has been invested in the training and supervision of Registrars and Medical Students for many years. With more than 35 years as a GP in Mooroopna and Shepparton he enjoys travelling and has many interests outside of work. Dr Ball is a well respected Doctor in our Practice and one of his specialties is Lap Band adjustments. His career in General Practice has led him to excel in the Healthcare field and he takes great pleasure in sharing his knowledge with future generations of Doctors through supervising and training.

General Facilities / Services

Consulting rooms, Nurse rooms, Treatment rooms, Fully equipped with modern diagnostic equipment.

Tea Rooms and Staff Toilets are in both clinics

Practice opening hours	Kialla is 5 1/2 Days 0800 to 1730 Saturday is 0900 to 1200PM. Mooroopna is open Monday to Friday 0830 to 1700 Monday to Friday only
College Requirements	Full time training requires 38 hrs per week employed averaged over 4 weeks. Less than 38 hours per week employed is part time training.
Evening roster	Not required
Saturday and Sunday work	Approximately 1 in 5 Saturdays for 3 Hours approximately

Public holiday work

Public Holidays are always an option for you to work however you are not required to. We like to open for a few hours in the morning on a Public Holiday and we always send an email invite for any Doctor wanting to work to let us know. Remuneration for a Registrar working a Public Holiday is negotiated with the Practice Manager.

Out of practice visits

We have an agreement with the National Home Doctor Service to take care of our patients in the After Hours period. A drivers licence is required as the Registrars work at both of our Practices during the course of their training. We allocate time within your working hours to do any Nursing Home visits. Our Practice is not normally asked to do Home visits.

Hospital affiliations

Goulburn Valley Health – no admitting rights/privileges required.

Hospital admission rights/ privileges

No requirement for Hospital work at all. We refer only to Hospital from our Clinics.

On-call

There is no On-Call requirement in either of our Practices for Hospital or Nursing Home visits.

College accreditation	RACGP
Pathway	Rural

Community groups

Parents’ clubs
School clubs
Spiritual groups

Travel

Public transport	Buses and Taxi's
Nearest airport	Melbourne
Access and distances to major centres or nearby towns

Schooling

Child care
Kindergarten
Primary
Secondary
Tertiary
Other