Looking for an appointment with Dr Elise Harrison? She now has appointments available at Blackburn Clinic as well as at Blackburn Specialist Centre. On Mondays, Elise will consult at Blackburn Clinic, Suite 5. On Wednesday and Friday she will continue to consult at Blackburn Specialist Centre. If booking via the website, she’ll be listed twice. … Read more
Retiring in April 2026! After over 26 years working as a GP at Blackburn Clinic, Dr Janice Kreltszheim has made the decision to retire. A note from Janice to her patients: “This has not been easy, as I love so many aspects of my work, especially the patients that I have been privileged to meet … Read more
Weekend FLU Vaccination Clinics are open for booking from 11th April 2026. Book online or via the AMS Connect app (by selecting Location ‘Blackburn Clinic’ and then selecting ‘Flu Vaccine’), or phone the clinic. The GP will check your eligibility and offer a Covid booster at this visit if appropriate. Check your eligibility for a free Flu … Read more
A massive congrats to nurse Maree, the recent recipient of the ActivHeal Outstanding Achievement in Wound Care Award for 2023 for the Oceania region. Maree has been recognised for a lifelong commitment of 41 years to wound care, and for her role in educating others to ensure positive patient outcomes. Here she is pictured with Andrew Brennen of Team Medical Supplies, and with nominator nurse Aline. Blackburn Clinic is so very lucky to have Maree leading our dedicated team of nurses.
The General Practice located at Blackburn Clinic (Suite 5) surveyed 351 patients using a Practice Accreditation and Improvement Survey (PAIS). The PAIS is a well-established patient survey widely used by general practices across Australia to gather valuable feedback from patients, which informs meaningful quality improvement within the organisation.
97% of all patient ratings about the Blackburn Clinic general practice were ’good, very good or excellent’.
There were 28 areas assessed by the survey and we were excited to learn that the patient feedback from our previous accreditations (in 2016 and 2019) shows that we have consistently improved in all 28 areas over those seven years! Click on the image above to find out which 3 areas we identified for improvement and our proposed plans to achieve this.
Last week our intrepid Office Manager, Wendy Cooney, headed off into the retirement phase of her life. Wendy was always a calm and steady influence, no matter what was thrown at her by Medicare or international pandemics! Wendy has experienced many changes since she started at Blackburn Clinic 35 years ago, especially in the area of technology. She embraced changes with dignity and so we’re sure she’ll thrive with this latest change.
We will miss Wendy enormously, but wish her all the best with her campervan travels and other endeavours. Her large family will continue to keep her busy.
It’s almost the end of the month, so we thought you’d want to see a pic of our team’s Moustache progress! Here are Drs Yashar, Connoley and Qi sporting their ‘taches!
We are proud of the whole team for their activities (many preferred to Walk rather than grow facial hair!) and fundraising. There is still time to support Movember, who do great work for Men’s mental health and suicide prevention, prostate and testicular cancer.
Here’s the link to our team page:
https://au.movember.com/team/2299231
The Blackburn Clinic Movember team are raising funds and awareness this Movember for all the dads, sons and mates in our lives. We need your help. Please donate to support men’s health. Use the link below to find our Movember team page:
https://au.movember.com/team/2299231
When you spend over a certain amount in a calendar year (1 Jan to 31 Dec) you qualify for a larger Medicare rebate. The Safety Net can help to lower your out of pocket costs. Click on the image above for more details.
Video consults may not be suitable for every medical condition or every person, but they can be a useful service which we are pleased to now offer. Face-to-face consults remain the gold standard and there will be a range of medical problems that your GP is unable to treat via video.
Patients can book video consults online for most Blackburn Clinic GPs. Using the AMS Connect app on your phone or tablet is easy if you have booked your video consult online. Click the image above for a step-by-step outline of the video consult process.