General Practice across MidCentral Districts

Most General Practice teams provide patient consultations via phone, video and face-to-face. Many General Practices will also offer an online app, referred to as a Patient Portal, which you can use to access your health information and safely send and receive messages between you and your health team. You can find more information about Patient Portals from your General Practice.

In some circumstances urgent treatments may be delivered within a general practice clinic. These may include:

• IV antibiotics for infections such as cellulitis (spreading infection), 
• diagnose and treatment of Deep Vein Thrombosis (blood clots in the leg)
• rehydration (for people who are dehydrated as a result of vomiting and/or diarrhoea) 

Some treatments can be managed safely in the community rather than at a hospital Emergency Department. Patient’s ‘safety first’ is the priority. Safety considerations mean that the provision of these treatments at a GP clinic is always at the discretion of the clinician. 

General Practices are individual businesses and can have different ways of operating, variations in fee structure and opening hours. Some GP teams do walk-ins and can see casual or unenrolled people, some are currently enrolling new patients. To learn more about our general practices, opening hours, enrolments, please click here , or for fees click here.

Practice Plus

Earlier this year, Practice Plus, a virtual telehealth service developed as a same day, after hours service was launched to offer same day virtual after-hours GP appointments to suit you and your whānau. This was a collaboration between THINK Hauora, Tū Ora, Pinnacle, and Te Awakairangi Health Network to create a service that utilises clinical resources from around the country to create additional local capacity alongside practice teams. To find out more, click here.