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Sanctuary Medical Practice Fletcher

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Services by General Practitioners, Nurses, and Psychologists in a relaxed and accessible space.

Providing services by General Practitioners, Nursing, and Psychologists in a relaxed, inclusive, and family friendly environment. After Hours Service - National Home Doctor Service 13 74 25

Services Include:
Children's health
Immunisations
Minor Surgical Procedures
Women's Health
Antenatal Share Care
Skin Checks
Skin Cancer Management
Men's Health
ECGs
Psychology

16/11/2025

We are deeply saddened to inform patients and our community of the sudden and unexpected passing of Dr Chris Chard. His dedication to his patients and profession left a lasting impact, and he will be profoundly missed by the community he served with such care and compassion. His team at Sanctuary will remember him not only as a skilled and committed doctor, but as a cherished friend. Our thoughts are with his family.

04/04/2025

This year as Easter and ANZAC Day are so close we have decided to take the opportunity to rest our hard working team. The practice will be closed from Friday 18 April and re-open on Monday 28 April. This will give our team a chance to re-energise, spend time with their loved ones, and have a well earned rest.

We hope that everyone in our community has a wonderful Easter. And that all of us take the time to remember the sacrifice made by the ANZACs and honour their memory.

21/07/2024

The management at Sanctuary Medical Practice Fletcher has recently been considering the increase in respiratory viruses like Influenza, RSV, Whooping Cough, and Covid. In particular, consideration has been for those people that are at high risk of complications including pneumonia and hospitalisation.

Our practice has around 2000 patients that would be considered at high risk if they contract a virus like Influenza. It should also be noted that anyone could experience complications from viruses 🦠 like influenza - even very healthy people.

Some of the people with a higher risk of complications work for us - we have some clinical and non-clinical health care workers and/or their family members that could experience serious health complications if they were infected. We need to make their workplace as safe as possible during this season.

It is for this reason that we have returned mask 😷 wearing to our practice and increased Telehealth. We see this as an act of safety, caring, and kindness to protect the people that visit our practice and for those that work there.

We ask everyone that comes to wear a mask, wash hands as required, and sanitise. And if you have respiratory symptoms please let admin know when you are making an appointment or arriving at the practice.

We are very grateful to all the wonderful patients that have been wearing masks 😷.
And have also shown understanding and support for our decision.

20/07/2024

Due to the increased cases of Influenza A, RSV, Whooping Cough, and Covid…. Masks 😷 are a condition of entry to our practice. If you don’t have one, ask our friendly admin team and they will be happy to provide one.

19/05/2024

A huge thank you to all GPs in our community 🙏 and a special thanks to Dr Graham Walter, Dr Chris Chard, Dr Vivin Thomas Mathew, Dr Rob Spier, Dr Brianna Bassett, and Dr Beck Spring.

13/05/2024

Summer is fun, but we all know that the sun ☀️ can be very damaging…

When was your last skin check? Early detection is so important.

Dr Graham Walter, Dr Chris Chard, and Dr Rob Spier are all qualified and have experience in detecting skin cancers and skin cancer removal if needed.

If you would like to book for a skin check, you can call our practice on 02 4953 8244. Or you can book online:

https://www.hotdoc.com.au/medical-centres/fletcher-NSW-2287/sanctuary-medical-practice/doctors

And here is a link to the Cancer Council webpage for further information on skin cancer:

https://www.cancercouncil.com.au/skin-cancer/about-skin-cancer/ #:~:text=cancer%20from%20occurring.-,How%20common%20is%20skin%20cancer%3F,common%20cancer%20diagnosed%20in%20Australia.

12/05/2024

This week we have celebrated and thanked our Nurses and Medical Receptionists 👏⭐️ on International Nurses Day and International Medical Receptionist Day. Everyday they care and help people in our community as frontline health care workers.

Nurse Jo has shown commitment to our community and has been with us for 10 years now! Next year Jo will be training our first new graduate nurse! We are very excited to add the education of the next generation of nurses to our current program of training future doctors. It is our hope that we will be able to train many doctors and nurses to enter our industry with a heart for health care and community.

And then there is the work of our Medical Receptionist. This is a huge job, they will answer on average around 800 calls in a week. Most of these calls are complex and from people in our community needing medical care. Their ability to triage and understand a wide range of needs is to be admired. As most people know the health care system is getting more and more complicated and it is our medical receptionist that are often helping our community to access medical services and to understand how it all works.

Again, thank you to our nurses and medical receptionists. You are appreciated and admired ⭐️👏💛

28/04/2024

We will be closed on the afternoon of Wednesday 01 May 2024 from 12.30pm. The entire team, both clinical and non-clinical, will be involved in an Annual Education and Planning Day.

While everyone in our practice regularly participates in education and professional development as individuals, this team based training is a very important and precious time for our practice as we work to consolidate knowledge, develop quality improvements, and plan for the future. As a team this will give us an opportunity to focus on patient care as we address topics such as continuity of care, standards in healthcare, managing chronic disease in the community, sustainability of general practice, and digital platforms.

24/04/2024

Today with deep respect and heavy hearts we will remember those that served and sacrificed for our Country. We are forever grateful - Lest We Forget.

30/03/2024

Thank you to our amazing GPs -
Dr Graham, Dr Chris, Dr Vivin, Dr Rob, and Dr Brianna. We are so grateful for everything you do for our community
🩺⭐️🤩💛

27/03/2024

We hope our community has a safe and peaceful Easter break 🐣

Sanctuary Medical Practice Fletcher will be closed over the weekend (including Saturday morning) and will re-open on Tuesday 02 April 2024.

07/03/2024

Today we celebrate and acknowledge all women! We especially want to thank all the women that work at Sanctuary; Nurse Jo, Donna, Nurse April, Deb, Gabbi, Elizabeth, Dr Brianna, Kerrie, Amy, Leah, Mary, Tay, Lily and Lucy! We are grateful for the amazing job you all do in health 💜

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50 Kurraka Drive
Newcastle, NSW
2287

Opening Hours

Monday	8:30am - 5pm
Tuesday	8:30am - 5pm
Wednesday	8:30am - 5pm
Thursday	8:30am - 5pm
Friday	8:30am - 4pm

Telephone

+61249538244

Website

http://www.sanctuarymedicalpractice.com.au/

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Sanctuary Medical Practice opened in 2012 and was the first GP practice to open in Fletcher. We have 3 highly qualified GPs with extensive experience, 2 GP Registrars, an excellent Registered Nurse and an amazing Speech Pathologist.

All Healthcare professionals working at Sanctuary Medical Practice are committed to providing high quality primary healthcare to our community.