Health Checks & Assessments

At West Pennant Hills Medical Centre we offer a variety of health checks and assessments for our patients, young and old, which will help to monitor your health and identify any issues as they arise. Early diagnosis is the key to better health, so it’s important to ensure you always get checked out.

Kids’ health check: Children’s health checks include monitoring development and normal milestones, immunisation and health promotion. Healthy Kids Checks for 3-4 year olds can assess readiness for school and provide an opportunity for early screening for visual acuity, hearing, coordination as well as motor skills and other areas of development. If any issues are identified, we can then address these.

45 to 49 health check: This comprehensive health check will ensure that any emerging health problems are identified early on, so they can be treated accordingly.

For over 75 years health assessment: A comprehensive annual health check is recommended for all people aged over 75 to identify any health issues and optimise quality of life. Areas assessed may include but are not limited to lifestyle, mobility, medication, nutrition, exercise, safety in the home, care arrangements and support networks. Education is also a big part of this, and our nurses can provide advice on fall prevention and other things that will help to improve health and lifestyle.

Chronic Disease and GP Managed Care Plans:
Comprehensive and individualised care plan can ensure that all aspects of chronic disease are managed including goals to achieve optimal health. Chronic conditions including diabetes, hypertension, osteoporosis, arthritis, chronic pain are amongst the most common conditions that can be supported with the help of a care plan. Some care plan patients are eligible for referral to allied health providers at a subsidised cost.

Immunisations and Vaccination

We are a local COVID vaccine provider and we offer a comprehensive service including advice and most vaccinations. Please make plans and see us so that the appropriate vaccinations can be given in time for them to be effective while you are overseas.

Now a Yellow Fever registered clinic, West Pennant Hills Centre can administer both overseas and local vaccinations for your convenience. Our practice nurse can visit your workplace to do this as required or your staff can visit our clinic by appointment.

Seasonal Influenza Vaccination Programs should be performed in May/June as the vaccines take up to two weeks to become effective. Unfortunately, the virus changes each year, thus, vaccinations are required at 12 monthly intervals. Meanwhile, before travelling overseas, it’s important to check as soon as possible if you need a travel vaccination, and if so, we can administer this for you.

If you are planning a trip to Bali, Europe or anywhere local or overseas, and would like to have traveller vaccinations prior to your trip, or would like to know about ‘Dos and Don’ts’ during your stay, or if you have any health concern after your journey, doctors at WPH Medical Centre can help you.

Our medical practitioners can offer you

• Departure counselling

• Traveller’s vaccinations custom-made to your destination

• Malaria prophylaxis

• Post-travelling health (e.g. : traveller’s diarrhoea)

Medical Centre offers immunisation services such as

• Yellow fever immunisation

• Routine childhood immunisation

• Traveller’s immunisations

• Annual influenza immunisation

• Immunisations for special group of people such as patients with chronic medical condition, splenectomy patients, chronic renal failure, etc.,

• Corporate immunisations

For further information regarding your future company medical needs, speak to our practice/office manager or the registered nurse on duty

Children and Adolescent health

All our GP’s are confident in managing the wide variety of medical problems, which children can present with.
Most of our GPs have a special interest in pediatric medicine, and some of them have attained a Diploma in Child Health.

We provide acute and ongoing medical care for children and are also well connected to various local specialists, private and public hospitals for more advanced and specialist management if required.
We offer many specialized child health services including:

• Common childhood infections management – such as upper airway infections, ear infections, tonsillitis, skin infection, etc.

• Routine immunisations

• Healthy Kids Check for children who are aged at least 3 years and less than 5 years of age, who have received or who are receiving their 4 year old immunisation

• Management of childhood medical condition – such as Asthma, Eczema etc.

• Management of adolescent medical conditions – such as Acne, Depression etc..

OTHER SERVICES

ALLIED HEALTH SERVICE

Physiotherapist and Dietiiton

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SPECIALIST SERVICE

Dr. suntharalingam sivananthan

Surgeon

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PATHOLOGY ON SITE SERVICE

LAVERTY PATHOLOGY SERVICE OPERATES ON SITE ON MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS