Family Medicine

Family Medicine provides continuing and comprehensive health care for the individual and family. Unlike other medical specialists who focus on a specific type of disease or a part of the body, family medicine practitioners provide comprehensive care to patients of all ages and genders through all stages of life. They treat a large variety of different health conditions
 

Family medicine services includes:

• Management of chronic conditions such as Asthma, Diabetes and Hypertension
• Monitoring of long-term conditions eg Chronic kidney disease
• Acute conditions eg infections
• Management of long-term conditions with correct co-ordination with secondary care and appropriate referrals
• Healthy living, preventive medicine
• Cardiovascular risk profile
• Smoking cessation advice
• Travel medicine/vaccinations
• Weight management
• Pain management
• Principles of healthy nutrition and healthy living
• Post-natal checks for new mothers and babies
• Women’s health - cervical smears
• Breast feeding support for mums
• Meditation
• Annual Fitness Medical Examinations for adults, including annual testing program
• Children, elderly and adults requiring any follow-up care