Address:
69 Warton STREET, GAYNDAH, 4625

Billing:
No Fee

Wheelchair access:
Yes

Our Indigenous health workers support people by:
• Care Coordination to ensure the best health outcomes for the
client
• Providing advice and advocacy on culturally appropriate
practice and protocols
• Working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities,
individuals and health services to improve health outcomes
• Working with indigenous communities and the wider health
service to Close the Gap
• Assisting clients with navigating the health journey and
accessing services like:
?? specialist appointment arrangements & telehealth
?? accessing patient transport services
?? providing health screenings, clinics and health promotion in
communities
?? talking with doctors and health professionals (joint sessions
supported).

Address:
69 Warton STREET, GAYNDAH, 4625

Billing:
No Fee

Wheelchair access:
Yes

Available once a fortnight. Please phone to make an appointment.

The Dietitian provides individual medical nutrition therapy
and delivers education programs, for the management of clients
with acute, chronic and complex conditions to promote selfmanagement
of their health.
Our Dietitians consult and support clients with:
• Malnutrition including underweight or significant unintentional
weight loss and scripting for nutritional supplements
• Type 1 diabetes and poorly controlled Type 2 diabetes
• Chronic renal failure
• Conditions with increased nutritional requirements e.g. failure
to thrive, pressure ulcers, wound healing, COPD, cancer (joint
appointments with Cancer Care services available)
• Gastro intestinal tract (GIT) complications and disorders
impacting nutritional adequacy e.g. food allergies, lactose
intolerance, recent GIT surgery, coeliac disease, irritable bowel
syndrome, inflammatory bowel disease
• Nutritional deficiencies e.g. calcium, iron
• Metabolic syndrome

Address:
69 Warton STREET, GAYNDAH, 4625

Billing:
No Fee

Wheelchair access:
Yes

Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs (ATOD)

Address:
96 Warton STREET, GAYNDAH, 4625

Billing:
No Fee

Wheelchair access:
Yes

The Exercise Physiologist develops and delivers group and
individualised exercise prescription to clients with chronic and
complex disease. The aim of the intervention is to facilitate longterm
behaviour change by encouraging the self-management of
health through exercise, with a view to preventing and treating
disease.
Our Exercise Physiologist may support people with exercise
prescription for:
• Cardiopulmonary conditions, e.g. coronary artery disease,
peripheral vascular disease, Myocardial infarction, chronic
heart failure, asthma, COPD, cystic fibrosis
• Metabolic conditions requiring specialised exercise advice for
individualised clinical markers e.g. poorly controlled diabetes
• Musculoskeletal conditions e.g. Arthritis, osteoporosis, and
chronic musculoskeletal pain and or injury
• Neurological/neuromuscular conditions e.g. Stroke, spinal
cord injury, acquired brain injury, Parkinson’s disease, Multiple
Sclerosis

Address:
69 Warton STREET, GAYNDAH, 4625

Billing:
No Fee

Wheelchair access:
Yes

School based youth health nurse service available. Please call for further information.

Address:
69 Warton STREET, GAYNDAH, 4625

Billing:
No Fee

Wheelchair access:
Yes

Nurses available:

Child Health Nurse covering Gayndah, Eidsvold, Biggenden and Mundubbera only

Community Health Nurse covering Gayndah, Eidsvold and Mundubbera only

Address:
69 Warton STREET, GAYNDAH, 4625

Billing:
No Fee

Wheelchair access:
Yes

The Occupational Therapist focuses on promoting,
improving and maintaining a client’s functional capacity and
independence in their activities of daily living in the home and
community.
The Occupational Therapist can assist a range of client
groups including but not limited to:
• Chronic disease
• Frail aged
• Neurological conditions
• Hand and upper limb conditions
• Oedema/lymphodema
• Pressure injuries
• Children with developmental concerns
Our Occupational Therapist may support people with:
• Prescription and access to assistive equipment
• Home modifications both minor and major
• Promoting healthy ageing through home exercise programs
• Education on energy conservation and task simplification
• Falls prevention programs and individualised falls prevention
action planning and intervention
• Exercise prescription and rehabilitation programs

Address:
69 Warton STREET, GAYNDAH, 4625

Billing:
No Fee

Wheelchair access:
Yes

The Physiotherapist delivers high level physiotherapy
services and program delivery to clients, by providing assessment,
diagnosis and evidence based treatment interventions for clients
with complex and chronic conditions.
Services are prioritised with a focus on hospital inpatients, hospital
avoidance pre and post surgery programs.
Our Physiotherapist may support people with:
• Cardiopulmonary/respiratory conditions, including any lung
conditions where shortness of breath, sputum clearance and
decreased function are an issue
• Musculoskeletal/orthopaedic conditions, including joint
replacement, post fracture, multiple chronic joint conditions
• Neurological and degenerative neuromuscular conditions,
including stroke, Motor Neurone Disease, Multiple Sclerosis,
Parkinson’s Disease
• Functional mobility decline
• Recent hospital admission where there is a moderate to high
risk of falling on discharge
• Chronic disease and associated problems with mobilising or
increased exercise tolerance
• Developmental assessment and treatment

Address:
69 Warton STREET, GAYNDAH, 4625

Billing:
No Fee

Wheelchair access:
Yes

The Podiatrist delivers a
specialist clinical podiatry service for community clients with a
focus on people with ‘high risk’ feet conditions.
Our Podiatrist may support people with:
• Active foot lesion (wound, ulcer, infection, surgical site)
• Chronic disease and gross foot deformity or skin problems
such as callus, corn, skin cracks
• Diagnosis or differential diagnosis of Peripheral Arterial
Disease Peripheral Vascular Disease or Peripheral Neuropathy
• Clients with diabetes if they have not been seen by a podiatrist
or GP within the last 12 months, especially in the presence
of peripheral neuropathy; peripheral vascular disease; foot
deformity; or skin problems
• Clients with a history of falls in the last 12 months
Low priority services:
• Newly diagnosed clients with diabetes and no foot
complications identified
Routine nail care will not be undertaken unless there is a
clear medical reason for doing so

Address:
96 Warton STREET, GAYNDAH, 4625

Billing:
No Fee

Wheelchair access:
Yes

The psychologist delivers psychology assessment and
management of patients with a particular focus on improving the
health outcomes and quality of life for those with complex chronic
conditions through integrated care planning, assistance with
patient’s psychological factors impact on their condition and to
facilitate chronic condition self-management.
The program has a particular focus on supporting clients with
chronic conditions and preventing hospital re-admissions related
to chronic diseases.
The psychologist can assist a range of client groups with a
particular focus, but not limited to:
• working with individuals to make lifestyle changes to maximise
health and functional outcomes,
• addressing emotional and behavioural factors related to
adjustment to chronic conditions or injury,
• assisting individuals adhere to medical interventions and
treatment regimes
Referrals related to a mental illness should be directed to
mental health service providers

Address:
69 Warton STREET, GAYNDAH, 4625

Billing:
No Fee

Wheelchair access:
Yes

The Social Worker provides generalised, and specific, support,
information, counselling, and education for personal, social and
health matters for patients experiencing a variety of complex
conditions.
Our Social Worker supports people with:
• Planning & problem solving for personal, family and health
issues
• Liaison and advocacy with government and non-government
services
• Information and support to access services
• Counselling including adjustment to chronic conditions;
targeted life skills training; stress/anxiety management; and
grief
• Health Coaching including smoking cessation, and transition to
cessation
• Advance Care Planning - support for Wills, EPOA, and
Advance Health Directive
• Paediatric behaviour assessment and managemen

Address:
69 Warton STREET, GAYNDAH, 4625

Billing:
No Fee

Wheelchair access:
Yes

Our Speech Pathologist supports people with:
• Diagnosing and treating communication disorders, including
difficulties with speech, language, fluency and voice.
• Working with people who have difficulty communicating as a
result of many different problems that can affect speech and
language for example, developmental delays, stoke, brain
injuries, dementia or hearing loss.
• Assisting people who experience difficulties swallowing food
and drinking safely
Speech pathology can be of benefit to people with identified or
potential communication and feeding difficulties from birth.
If concerns are present there is no need to wait until a child
reaches a certain age