About our Clinic :

Kincraig Medical Clinic is a group of six experienced doctors with a common philosophy and commitment to Rural Family Medicine.
In our community this involves the provision not only of traditional General Practice Consulting, but also procedural and hospital based services such as Obstetrics, Anaesthetics, Minor Surgery and Emergency Medicine.

The doctors combine the caring aspects of traditional General Practice with the knowledge and skills of modern family medicine. They provide a complete and personal approach to a patient's medical needs. The doctors recognise that health and illness are influenced by lifestyle (such as nutrition, exercise, smoking and alcohol consumption) and a range of social factors, including relationships with other people. Kincraig Medical Clinic will aim to give its patients the best possible treatment, using the most up-to-date and best proved methods, materials and equipment, emphasising the prevention of disease as a higher ideal than the actual treatment of it.

Kincraig Medical Clinic believes this is best achieved in a working environment where the patient is recognised as the most important person in the Practice, and where all the people in the Practice work in an ethical and responsible manner, as a team, and with mutual respect for each other's abilities and functions.

One of the main objectives of the Kincraig Medical Clinic is to encourage the maintenance of good health in patients through preventive medicine and active health promotion.

To do this, the doctors:
- Confer with each other, specialists and other health professionals as indicate
- Allow sufficient time for consultations
- Keep their medical knowledge, skills and practice up to date through continuing medical

Working Arrangements
0930 - 1200
1400 - 1730 or longer as required.
All patients requesting consultation the same day will be "fitted in". Half-day off per week.

On-call shared equally.
Urgent medical problems are referred to the Duty Doctor, as well as matters requiring attention before the requested doctor is available.

Such things may be:
- Patients at the Hospital needing immediate treatment
- Requests from the Hospital or Nursing Home for a non-routine visit to a patient,
- Requests for house calls
- Requests to accept patient transfers from other hospitals

The Duty doctor undertakes to be immediately available at all times and contactable by mobile phone. At no time will doctors mobile numbers be given to the general public

Duty doctor sees emergencies and "extras" at clinic and hospital; starts the day with all appointments free.
There are always two other doctors available for backup. An anaesthetist and an obstetrician (incl CS) is always on call.

Obstetric patients in labour cared for by the duty obstetrician in most cases. If Caesarean Section not available in Naracoorte, patients transferred early in labour.

A Separate LCinic ay Macmillian wing at Naracoorte Health Service where our on call Doctor works from daily as well as pre anaethetice clinics, Antenatal Clinics and skin check clinics.