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We welcomed Abigail Neville, a 3rd year Medical Student, for a 2 week placement in April. Kerrie took her out to Duggans to help with the Flu vaccination clinic. We regularly have medical and nursing students and offer a great experience for them in an holistic GP rural community practice. Evidence shows that this sort

For adults 50 years and over, the choice of having another option of a vaccine against COVID-19 is months away. Expert medical advice is clear that the benefit of receiving the Astra Zeneca vaccination greatly outweighs the risk of the rare but serious side-effect of blood clotting. The risk of having a blood clot after

Vaccination against COVID-19 remains the best way to prevent severe illness and death from COVID-19. There are also other important community benefits such as promoting herd immunity, which is the only way to protect those individuals who cannot have the vaccine. Developing sufficient herd immunity will also reduce the development of variants. The risk of

In Tasmania we have had little COVID 19 disease so far, but it is highly infectious. Our health experts recommend the vaccine as our best protection. We are now able to immunise those 50 years and older. Our next clinic is this coming Saturday. Book online by selecting the appointment type COVID 19 dose 1, or

There must be at least 2 weeks between flu vaccination and covid 19 vaccination Our COVID 19 Vaccination Clinics are available every second Saturday from 10am – 1pm: May 8, May 30, June 6.Our service is open to all people regardless of which general practice you attend.You need to have 2 weeks between the influenza

Come and get involved, strengthen our community and de-stigmatise suicide and mental health! Wesley Lifeforce is working with the Cygnet Community on the potential of starting a Community led Cygnet Suicide Prevention Network

Sadly, Dr Sam Wytton has left us. Her priority is her young family and despite the fact she loves working here, she finds there is not enough time to include travel, work and managing two young children. We wish her all the best in her future endeavours, and she will be missed by staff and

We are experiencing a “bottleneck” in our reception area. We need to keep the narrow table to maintain a safe distance for our receptionists but this takes up space. We have purchased another Tyro machine so we can spread out our reception services. Ideally we would like you to check in with the receptionist who is

Cygnet Family Practice looks forward to welcoming more GP Registrars and nursing and medical students this year.

Thank you Dr. Nurman for your “healthy cakes”. We are sooooo thankful.

It is quite a detailed process and we need to have enough health professionals to provide this service, in addition to our current service. I’m happy to hear from any local nurses who would like to do the COVID-19 vaccination training to join a casual pool of immunisers with our practice. Please email kerrie@cygnetfamilypractice.com.au with your contact details and

Cygnet Family Practice is currently going through the process to see if we can provide COVID vaccinations from our practice. We will let you know over the next month with vaccines potentially late March/early April.To keep up to date and to ensure your information is reliable, visit health.gov.au/covid19-vaccines