Why Work With Ochre Health
Why choose to work with Ochre Health? From the very start in 2002, with our first medical centres in rural NSW, Ochre Health has been committed to delivering the best health outcomes for our...
View ArticleOchre Reaches 31
In the last 2 months Ochre Health has grown to reach 31 sites across six states and territories. VIC Lancefield Country Practice joined Ochre on the 23rd April and is the first Victorian practice to...
View ArticleA Farewell Note
A Message From Maureen… I would like to take this opportunity to express my sincere gratitude to John Burns, as well as Ross Lamplugh and Hamish Meldrum for believing in me, supporting me, teaching me...
View Article‘World Class’ Industry-Focused Clinical Trials Centre Underway
Work is well underway at the University of the Sunshine Coast (USC) towards the development of a ‘world-class’ industry-focused Clinical Trials Centre (CTC) that will be initiated and managed by USC...
View ArticleNew Pap Smear Clinic At Parkes
The Parkes Practice in NSW has been without a female Doctor since February 2015, this has caused a back log of patients with a request for PAP smears. Most patients prefer to have this service...
View ArticleHealthpathways – A New Online Tool Facilitating Pathways To Specialist Care
HealthPathways is a new online clinical and referral information portal, launched in the ACT by Minister for Health Simon Corbell. The system has been designed by GPs, specialists and other health...
View ArticleOchre Health PhD Scholarship 2015
Ochre Health with the support of the University of Canberra Health Research is offering a PhD Scholarship for research in the areas of Medical and Health Sciences or Public Health and Health Services....
View ArticleWelcome Rich Green
Rich Green has joined Ochre Health as our new National Operations Manager. Rich is a trained Exercise Physiologist, working in the Corporate Health/ Preventative Health space for 8 years. He started...
View ArticleNew doctors and seven-day, walk-in medical services a boon for the Sippy...
Sippy Downs residents are responding with their feet to boosted ‘walk in’ medical services available seven days a week to cater to the area’s population and infrastructure growth, and to help take...
View ArticleLeading medical organisation announces acquisition of St Helens General Practice
Ochre Health Medical Centres will provide St Helens residents with enhanced medical services following its acquisition of St Helens General Practice from IPN Medical Centres. Ochre Medical Centre’s...
View ArticleSt Helens doctor urges residents to be vigilant about skin cancer
With Skin Cancer Action Week commencing 19 November, and with Australia having one of the world’s highest skin cancer rates[1], a new St Helens doctor who has just spent 17 years in the Northern...
View ArticleLooking for a sports physician to help take your A-game to the next level?
From this month, Canberra residents will have access to specialised sports medicine services usually reserved for high-performance athletes, simply by visiting a medical centre in Bruce. Dr Stephan...
View ArticleTasmanian Intern Program
Meet Tasmania’s New Generation of Doctors Tasmania’s newest generation of doctors are being encouraged to consider a career in rural general practice, in a federally funded initiative spearheaded by...
View ArticleIntroducing Ochre’s Fifth Intern – Dr James Robinson
The John Daly Memorial Prize in General Practice is only awarded to one medical student every year, and the Huon Valley Health Centre’s new intern Dr James Robinson was honoured to receive the...
View ArticleNew Year Health Resolutions
New Year Health Resolutions, unsurprisingly, many of these promises are broken well before February, and truly we aren’t worried. Unless your promise was to get a health check. Because unlike those...
View ArticleOverseas travel tips
As tourists flock in droves to popular holiday destinations, medical practitioners are advising the community to have any necessary travel vaccinations at least four weeks before embarking on overseas...
View ArticleDoctor with women’s health focus joins Bruce community, urges women to...
Ochre Health has welcomed a doctor with special interests in women and children’s health, antenatal care and mental health to its growing team in Bruce. Dr Jessica Nathan arrives on the back of the...
View Article‘Go Purple’ for Tayla: Bridging the gap for epilepsy in Noosa
Ochre Health has supported a young girl in the Noosa community to fundraise for Go Purple Day, an initiative of Epilepsy Queensland as part of Epilepsy Awareness Month. Noosa local Tayla Stinton, 12,...
View ArticleTasmanian Intern Program
Meet our next round of Interns! Five remote Tasmanian communities will be farewelling their first group of intern doctors as they leave to embark on the next stage of their intern journeys. Meanwhile,...
View ArticleGuide to the Flu Shot for 2018
Ochre Health explains what you need to know to avoid getting the flu this winter. What is new in 2018? This year we have stronger flu vaccines for people aged over 65 and free vaccines for kids aged 6...
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