To receive important alerts and updates from Gold Coast Primary Health Network, please submit the form below.
To receive important alerts and updates from Gold Coast Primary Health Network, please submit the form below.
Older people living in Residential Aged Care Homes experiencing mild depression or anxiety and those having trouble adjusting to changes or coping with loss.
The Psychological Services in Residential Aged Care Homes (RACH) program offers structured psychological therapies that support people with mental health needs living in residential aged care. The service aims to support residents experiencing mild depression or anxiety and those having trouble adjusting to changes or coping with loss. The service can also support people experiencing dual diagnosis of mental health and dementia or neurocognitive disorder (including brain injury/developmental disability) where behaviours are identified as mental health related.
Sessions may be focused on transitions into aged care, engagement and well-being and managing identified mental health conditions.
Low to moderate intensity service
Participants must be living in a Commonwealth funded RACH within the Gold Coast region
Any source including GP or self-referrals.
GPs can refer by calling or emailing:
If you are unsure if this service is right for your patient, you can refer to Head to Health on 1800 595 212 between Monday to Friday, 8:30am – 5pm (except public holidays). For more information visit Head to Health Phone Service.
Improve the social and emotional wellbeing of individuals and reduce the harm associated with social and emotional wellbeing, suicide ideation/attempts and mental ill health through the provision of an integrated, flexible, and holistic approach of care.
The Kalwun Social Health Program offers comprehensive support for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people, partners, parents, or carers of who are struggling with their mental health, alcohol and other drug misuse or seeking a suicide support service. The Program works within a social and emotional wellbeing framework and provides clinical and non-clinical case management.
The Program helps to empower people to self-manage and make decisions about their own health at their own pace. Social Health offer a person and family based approach to providing care and the ability to link clients with a range of internal and external services.
Low to high intensity service
Coomera Integrated Health and Wellbeing Hub
7 Jowett St, Coomera Qld 4209
Airport Central B1, 1 Eastern Ave, Bilinga Qld 4224
Miami Clinic
2020 Gold Coast Hwy, Miami Qld 4220
People of all ages struggling with their
mental health or seeking a suicide
support service.
Any source, including GP or self-referrals. GPs can refer by calling or emailing:
If you are unsure if this service is right for your patient, you can refer to Head to Health on 1800 595 212 between Monday to Friday, 8:30am – 5pm (except public holidays). For more information visit Head to Health Phone Service.
The “Turning Pain into Gain” Persistent Pain Program aims to help persistent pain sufferers become better managers of their pain through the education program, individual case management, support, goal setting and improved use of community health services.
Supports people explore a range of different strategies through education programs, individual case management, peer support, goal setting and improved use of community health services. Offers psychological support to clients experiencing anxiety due to pain who may need additional mental health support.
Primary and Community Chronic Disease
The service is available for a period of up to 12 months and includes:
GP referral is required. GPs can refer by calling or emailing:
Clinician Resources
Patient Resources
The Chronic and Complex Wound Clinic is a dedicated wound clinic led by a wound specialist GP and Nurse Practitioner, supported by a team of highly trained nurses.
This is a dedicated wound clinic led by a wound specialist GP and Nurse Practitioner, supported by a team of highly trained nurses. They support local general practitioners and their patients to improve health outcomes for people that have chronic, complex, recurrent, and debilitating wounds that seriously impact on their quality of life.
Indigenous children and young people 0 – 19 years who are in a kinship or foster care arrangement who present with mild to moderate symptoms.
Short-term support, group programs, outreach, and case management using an integrated, flexible, and holistic approach to promote social and emotional wellbeing. Provides tailored interventions for mental health and cultural needs, and improve relationships and community connections.
Moderate intensity service
Coomera Integrated Health and Wellbeing Hub
7 Jowett St, Coomera Qld 4209
Bilinga Clinic
Airport Central B1, 1 Eastern Ave, Bilinga Qld 4224
Miami Clinic
2020 Gold Coast Hwy, Miami Qld 4220
GPs can refer through Head to Health or by calling or emailing.
If you are unsure if this service is right for your patient, you can refer to Head to Health on 1800 595 212 between Monday to Friday, 8:30am – 5pm (except public holidays). For more information visit Head to Health Phone Service.
The Care Finder program, commissioned by Gold Coast Primary Health Network (GCPHN), is a free service for Gold Coast residents. It helps older, vulnerable people, who need intensive assistance to access aged care services at home. It is specifically for people who have no-one else who can assist them and are eligible for government-funded aged care.
Under the program, a dedicated Care Finder will visit people in their homes (or another place they would like to meet) and will ask questions to understand the person’s situation and support them to work through the steps to address their needs. The Care Finder program will help the resident to:
Footprints Community
Website: www.footprintscommunity.org.au
Phone: 1800 FOOTPRINTS (1800 366 877) or 07 3252 3488
Multicultural Communities Council Gold Coast and CÜRA
Website: Care Finder (mccgc.com.au)
Phone: 07 5527 8011
Star Community Services
Website: www.starcommunityservices.org.au
Phone: 07 3821 6699
The Frailty Care in the Community program is for people identified by their doctor or allied health professional with a low rating on the frail scale. The free program builds awareness about identifying frailty to reduce the risk of falls, decline of independence and the worsening of other health conditions. It will screen and assess physical performance, nutritional status, medication management, cognition, mental health and social support.
The Frailty Care in the Community program is currently at full capacity and unable to accommodate new patients at this time. There is no estimated date for when appointments will be available for referred patients, and they will be added to a waiting list. Patients requiring additional medical support are encouraged to see their GP to assess their suitability for other PHN-funded frailty programs, or to access support in the community.
Participants are able to access psychologists, physiotherapists, exercise physiologists, dieticians and pharmacists with special interest in aged care. The program involves a variety of individual appointments and group-based movement sessions personalised to the patient’s needs, and improves the navigation to community health services. A fundamental part of the program focuses on social interaction and reducing isolation. Home visitations are also available for high-risk patients.
Low to moderate risk program and Moderate to high-risk program
Painwise
Low to moderate risk program (maximum of 16 weeks) includes:
Moderate to high-risk program (maximum of 24 weeks) includes:
General Practitioner referral required
Joyce McSwan
Persistent Pain Program Office Suite – Corporate House Suite 21 and 23, 155 Varsity Parade, Varsity Lakes, QLD 4227
frailtyprogram@painwise.com.au
Phone: 0412 327 795
Fax: 07 3539 9801
The BUnyAH Program is a 12-week intensive active lifestyle program developed by Bond University Allied Health Professionals, specialising in occupational therapy, exercise science, physiotherapy, and nutrition and dietetics. The program uniquely includes a free gym membership at the centrally located Avanti Health Centre in Southport, and programs are offered at both Robina and Southport locations.
The program is designed to deliver bi-weekly, client-centred health education and exercise classes to Gold Coast community members identified by their general practitioner as at risk of frailty and/or early admission to aged care facilities.
Early intervention program
Bond University
12-week intensive active lifestyle program including a free gym membership for the duration of the program.
Programs are offered at Bond Institute of Health and Sport, 2 Promethean Way, Robina; and Avanti Health Centre, Level 1, 103-113 Nerang Street, Southport.
Bond University Health and Wellness Clinic
Bond University Allied Health (BUnyAH)
Interprofessional Healthy Lifestyle Program
Email: MyHealth@bond.edu.au
Phone: (07) 5595 3500
The Endometriosis and Pelvic Pain Clinic is a dedicated GP-led multidisciplinary team with expertise in the management of Endometriosis and Pelvic pain for people in the Gold Coast region.
This is a dedicated Endometriosis and Pelvic Pain clinic that is led by a specialist doctor and supported by wide range of healthcare professionals. They support the local area to improve the healthcare outcomes for people that experience the debilitating effects of endometriosis and pelvic pain that seriously impact on their quality of life.
Your initial consultation is bulk billed. Further treatments/ investigations may incur an out-of-pocket expense.
Elysian Women’s Health at Medical Super Clinic Benowa,
The Gold Coast Medicare Urgent Care Clinic (UCC) at Oxenford provides improved access to clinically appropriate urgent care in a non-hospital setting. The clinic provides urgent, non-life-threatening health care with no out-of-pocket costs for patients. Any diagnostic services, such as radiology and pathology, will also be provided with no out-of-pocket costs for patients.
The Medicare UCC is a new model of care to reduce pressure on our hospitals and is:
Our Medical Gold Coast
Medicare UCCs provide acute episodic care and treatment that does not require a hospital admission. This may include:
Everyone within the Gold Coast Primary Health Network region who present requiring acute, episodic care for urgent conditions that are not immediately life-threatening.
Open seven days a week from 8am until 10pm, including public holidays.
Phone: 07 5573 1122
So we can provide you with the most accurate information,
please tell us a little more about yourself
