Yeppoon Family Practice

Yeppoon Family Practice has been in providing quality health care for the Capricorn Coast community for over 30 years. The business operates four busy, modern medical practices- Yeppoon Family Practice - The Family Practice (Emu park)- The Family Practice (Zilzie)- Complete Skin Solution & Specialist Centre. Our general practices are accredited and are supported by teams of practice nurses, experienced reception / administration staff and a practice manager. All practices privately bill and are fully computerised, with paperless patient files (Best Practice). Our fully equipped procedure rooms are provisioned with defibrillators, ECG, spirometry, diathermy and all essential equipment necessary for day to day emergencies and procedures. Yeppoon Family Practice is a 7 day practice, offering extended opening hours during the week and emergency appointments on a weekend. Our Emu Park and Zilzie practices operate Monday to Friday, and weekend appointments are referred to our Yeppoon practice. Our practices value a multi-disciplinary approach to patient care. The practice employs Chronic Disease Nurses, Asthma and COPD educators and skin nurses to support the management skin cancer medicine and cosmetic medicine treatments. The practice also offers onsite access to some allied health services. As accredited teaching practices and we have an extensive history of providing quality training for registrars, prevocational doctors, medical and nursing students spanning 20 years. With 10 accredited General Practice (level 1) trainers with RACGP and six accredited trainers with ACCRM, our practice has the capacity to provide Registrars and medical students an exceptional teaching environment and introduction to rural general practice. Currently we have 18 doctors on staff and the Practice Principals are Dr Julie Burke, Dr Scott Cooling, Dr Michael Donohue, Dr Julian Gregory, Dr Kaverjit Gujral, Dr Nick Wong and Dr Geraldine Young.