Bellingen Family Medical Centre is a mixed billing practice with bulk billing available for concession card holders. We believe in evidence based care and in patient autonomy in health decisions. We offer the full range of GP services including .
- Vaccinations
- Health checks
- Cervical screening
- Skin excisions
- Iron infuions
- Implanon
- IUD/Mirena insertion
- ECGs
- 24 hour blood pressure monitor
- Spirometry
Reception answer the phone from 8:30am to 12:00 and 12:30 to 5:00pm unless there is a message informing otherwise. We ask for your patience as sometimes reception find it difficult to interrupt an ongoing phone call or are attending to another task, if your call rings out please try again after 5 or 10 minutes.
We will endeavour to reply to emails within one working day.
Please note appointments cannot be made via email and must be made by phoning reception on 6655 2626 or online via HotDoc.
Please also note that urgent clinical matters should not be communicated via email and you cannot assume that these will be acted upon unless you have discussed this with reception or your doctor.
Please also note that you will need to book an appointment if you want to discuss anything clinical including results, if you need a prescription or repeat prescription, a medical certificate, a referral, a form completed or changed or any other activity that requires the doctors’ time or clinical assessment.
We have 15 minute appointments for single issues and longer appointments for multiple issues or complex problems.
If there is an emergency please call 000. If you are in need of afterhours emergency care you can also present to Bellingen Hospital.
Bellingen Family Medical Centre in committed to confidentiality and privacy of information. Our privacy policy is available from reception.
Kelly and Jay also run Platypus Foods as a non profit company which manufactures and sells low protein medical food for people with Phenylketonuria (PKU) and other metabolic disorders. We started this company after their daughter, Olive was born with PKU. You can find more information about this at the Platypus Foods website.
