Mental Health Month is celebrated each year in the month of October in NSW. This month encourages all of us to think about our mental health and wellbeing, regardless of whether we may have a lived experience of mental illness or not. It also gives us the opportunity to understand the importance of good mental health in our everyday lives and encourages help seeking behaviours when needed.
Ways you can get involved:

• Become an ally, learn how you can support your loved ones
• Donating to help those in need of urgent intervention

There are events hosted online and all over NSW throughout the month: https://mentalhealthmonth.wayahead.org.au/events/
Thrive GP will be circulating resources throughout the month to help raise awareness and educate our patients/community

The Goulburn Urgent Care Service is now open 365 days a year, from 8am to 8pm Monday to Friday and 10am to 7pm Saturday and Sunday. It will be staffed by General Practitioners and nurses with important diagnostic services close by including radiology and pathology.
Care for illness or injury that is not an emergency include:

• Minor cuts
• Sprains or suspected fractures
• Sports injuries
• Minor infections
• Urinary tract infections (UTI’s)
• Minor burns
• rashes
• Insect or animal bites
• Cough, cold or flu
• Mild asthma attacks
• earaches
• Fevers or chills

Patients should call Healthdirect on 1800 022 222 to access the service. A registered nurse will assess the patient’s condition and then discuss with the patient the best place for their care needs. This may include an appointment at the Goulburn Urgent Care Service, a telehealth appointment with the virtualKIDS or virtualGP services or escalating their care to other services like NSW Ambulance if required.

Free shingles vaccination under the National Immunisation Program has been expanded to include people at moderate to high risk of severe infection and complications from shingles.
A 2-dose schedule of Shingrix® is available for free to eligible cohorts: · 65 years and over · Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people 50 years and over 18 years and over considered at increased risk of herpes zoster due to an underlying condition and/or immunomodulatory/ immunosuppressive treatments. 

For more information visit health.gov.auhttps://www.health.gov.au/sites/default/files/2024-08/national-immunisation-program-shingles-vaccination-program-advice-for-health-professionals-september-2024.pdf

Congratulations to Greg, he was the winner of our Stroke Awareness Raffle!
Together we raised $94 to go to the Stroke Foundation. 

If you are a woman or person with a cervix, you should do cervical screening every 5 years from 25.

Our practice is offering Cervical Screening self-testing kits. A self-collected sample is just as safe, effective and accurate as a sample collected by a doctor or nurse. HPV can be found just as well in samples from either your cervix or your vagina.  
Contact us to make a booking with your GP. 

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ThriveGP will be raising funds and awareness for the Stroke Foundation. For the month of August patients can buy a raffle ticket when they visit the practice to go in the draw to win a 5 class pass to Rising Sun Fitness Gym, gift card for Crookwell Country Bunches and a candle.
Tickets:

$2.00 each
or

$5.00 for 3

The raffle will be drawn on Friday the 30th of August with the winner announced on our website. 
If you aren’t in the practice this August but would like to make a donation to the Stroke Foundation you can do so via our fundraising page https://www.fundraise4stroke.org.au/fundraisers/ThriveGP

Stroke-Awareness

Visiting Doctor: Dr Melanie George 

Qualifications: MBBS, FRACGP, DIP PAED 

Special Interest: Skin 

Thrive GP welcomes Dr George. She is a GP with experience in skin cancer diagnosis and treatment. She has a certificate in primary skin cancer medicine from the Australian College of Cutaneous Oncology. 

Monday 2nd – Friday 6th September 2024

Call us today to secure an appointment. 

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We have compiled the answers to the Patient Feedback Survey – Please find attached below.

If you have any questions – please feel free to let us know. Looking forward to an even better 2024!

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