Queenstown General Practice, TAS

Overview
The practice is the only private medical centre in Queenstown and is attached to the hospital and aged care facility. The practice has the capacity for three full time doctors who are supported by a full time CDM trained Registered Nurse and practice staff. The hospital has two emergency and 10 acute beds, with the closest referral hospital being in Burnie, which is a two hour drive away. Ochre Health took over the existing service in February 2014.

Hours of operation
Monday to Friday: 09:00am – 05:00pm

Billing type
At the General Practitioner’s discretion

Practice Manager
Tineke Aitken

List of visiting and on-site allied health and pathology services
Audiologist

DWS
No

RA and RRMA classification
RA4 – Outer Regional RRMA – 5 other rural areas

Fellowship Training
Location is suitable for the Remote Vocational Training Scheme (RVTS)

Retention Grant
Yes

Transition Grant
Yes

Dr Gerry McGushin (MB BS. DipRACOG) – General Practitioner/VMO
Dr Gerry McGushin is an experienced remote area GP of 32 years standing. He previously worked in Queenstown from 1988 to 2006. After that he worked as a medical officer in the Calvary Hospital, Private A&E in Hobart. He joined Ochre in February 2014 and returned to work in Queenstown. He is married with five children and two grandchildren. Two of his daughters are following in his footsteps and are medical students at the university of Tasmania.
Special interest areas: acute and emergency medicine

Dr Philip Cassidy- (MB ChB BAO, DRANZCOG, FRACGP) – General Practitioner/VMO
Dr Philip Cassidy has over 15 years experience in both rural and urban general practice. Originally studying at Queens University in Belfast, Philip has undertaken roles in Northern Ireland, Canberra, Sri Lanka and two years as a solo rural GP in Victoria. Phil moved to Tasmania in 1999 and joined the Ochre team in Queenstown initially as a locum in early 2014 and will be a regular GP/VMO in the town from January 2015, splitting his time with his practice in Launceston.
Specialty interest areas: rural medicine and obstetrics

Professor Dennis Pashen (MBBS Qld, MPHTM, FACRRM, FRACGP) – General Practitioner/VMO
Professor Dennis Pashen has joined the Queenstown General Practice in 2015 with 40 years’ experience working within rural and remote practice. This has included procedural practice in Ingham, the North Queensland Clinical School of the University of Queensland, Foundation Director of the Mt Isa Centre for Rural and Remote Health, Director of Medical Services in South Burnett and Rural Darling Downs Health and Hospital Services with responsibility for 18 rural hospitals. In 2014 Dennis moved to Southern Tasmania and spent the year providing Locum services throughout Australia in emergency medicine, obstetrics and general practice.
Dennis is a former President of the ACRRM and currently the National President of the Rural Doctors Associations.
Dennis is passionate about rural and remove health services across Australia and has been active in working towards improving access to health care for rural communities.
Specialty interest areas: medical education and training, rural health care, use of social media to promote rural health care

 

Address
Queenstown General Practice
60-64 Orr St
Queenstown TAS 7467

Telephone and Facsimile
Telephone: (03) 6472 2380
Facsimile: (03) 6472 2384

Overview
Queenstown (7467) is situated on the west coast of Tasmania which lies in a valley on the western slopes of Mount Owen on the West Coast Range. With the A10 Highway running through Queenstown, it can take 2 hours to reach Burnie on the north coast of Tasmania or 4 hours to Hobart.