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Flu Vaccine Clinic

We are planning on holding a Flu Vaccine Drive Through Clinic on Saturday 13th May 2023 at the Waimate Event Centre.  Please keep an eye on advertisements prior to this date....

View your medical information via Manage My Health

Manage My Health is a Computer tool which Waimate Medical Centre is starting to use. This “ patient portal” is accessed through our website HERE.  Once set up you will be able to look at your results and (as we become more adept at using the tool) – we will increasingly improve your access to your medical information. Electronic bookings and repeat prescription requests will also make life easier for you if you would like to use this (Don’t worry, you will still be able to phone to ...

Notices

TraderDear patients, be confident that we're taking care to ensure our community remains safe and well cared for now and in coming weeks. We believe Waimate is well placed to minimize the impact of Covid 19. Our connected, functional community has a solid health work force and we are working together to ensure ongoing great care. We are in frequent  contact with staff at the District Health Board in South Canterbury and others to ensure we're available to meet all your needs. At this t...

Modern building is icing on the cake of small-town GP life in WaimateNew post

Zahra Shahtahmasebi . zshahtahmasebi@nzdoctor.co.nzRepublished with permission of New Zealand Doctor Tuesday 18 June 2019, 09:47 AM "I used to feel nervous in the old building every time there was an earthquake…now we’ll probably be used as a command centre in a national emergency" When she looks at her newly built health centre, GP Sarah Creegan feels a sense of belonging to the small Canterbury town of Waimate. “As a rural GP you can go anywhere in the country, but this little town ...

Official Opening of the Waimate Health Centre

The Waimate Health Centre was officially opened on June 7, 2019.  Read the Timaru Herald article here....

Survival mode: Why some rural emergency services are under threat

Tess Brunton, Otago/Southland reporter.Rural GPs and nurses are thin on the ground and the pressure on those trying to provide life saving emergency help is even more evident over the summer. RNZ's Otago/Southland reporter, Tess Brunton explores if they can continue as demand rises.  Read more here....

New Medical Centre progress

The old building comes down.Timelapse video by Stuart Duncan...

Waimate Medical Centre moving from 1960s era to 21st century building | New Zealand Doctor

By Keira Stephenson Monday 6 August 2018, 10:37 AM An Edwardian building on Waimate’s main street makes way for a new development. After 10 years working in a building constructed the same year she was born, Waimate Medical Centre owner, GP Sarah Creegan, was ecstatic when the opportunity arose to move into a brand new $2 million one. Dr Creegan says her current building, purpose built in 1961, has good-sized rooms, but limited usefulness for today’s practising style. Her new premises w...

Waimate "buzzing" with anticipation for new medical centre

Matthew Littlewood, Timaru Herald, Dec 21 2018 A brand new close-to-$2 million medical centre in Waimate is now open to the public.The new single-storey building at 84 Queen St is home to a medical centre, pharmacy and ambulance bay, all internally linked.  The centre opened on Thursday and Waimate Medical Centre owner-operator Dr Sarah Creegan said the staff were "absolutely fizzing" with anticipation.  Read more here...