Westside Medical

24/12/2025

Merry Christmas all! A reminder of our holiday hours

Wednesday 24th December - 8am to 3pm
Thursday 25th December - Closed
Friday 26th December - Closed
Saturday 27th December - Closed
Sunday 28th December - Closed
Monday 29th December - 8am to 5.30pm
Tuesday 30th December - 8am to 5.30pm
Wednesday 31st December- 8am to 5.30pm
Thursday 1st January- Closed
Friday 2nd January- 8am to 5.30pm

As always, Westside provides after hours phone advice for our patients on 0498 993 007. See our website for further details.

Wishing all of our patients a happy and safe Christmas!!

17/12/2025

Holiday opening hours:

Wednesday 24th December - 8am to 3pm
Thursday 25th December - Closed
Friday 26th December - Closed
Saturday 27th December - Closed
Sunday 28th December - Closed
Monday 29th December - 8am to 5.30pm
Tuesday 30th December - 8am to 5.30pm
Wednesday 31st December- 8am to 5.30pm
Thursday 1st January- Closed
Friday 2nd January- 8am to 5.30pm

As always, Westside provides after hours phone advice for our patients on 0498 993 007. Fees may apply, see our website for further details.

Wishing all of our patients a happy and safe Christmas!!

04/11/2025

My Medicare Registration

If you've had an appointment with us in the past week, you may have received a text encouraging you to register for MyMedicare. This is a voluntary scheme for patients to notify Medicare know who their regular GP is.

Over time it will allow us to provide care or services to you that we can't if you're not MyMedicare registered, such as longer telephone appointments.

You can register for MyMedicare via a text you've receive, online or in app with Medicare, or in person with us at the clinic. Please feel free to ask any questions of your doctor, or our staff 💙🩷

02/11/2025

Our bulk-billing trial starts today

Most appointments will now routinely be bulk-billed for all patients with a Medicare or DVA card

Services that may still attract a fee include:
* Procedures, including skin biopsy or skin lesion excision
* Spirometry (lung function tests)
* Commercial driver's licence medicals
* The cost of your vaccines, if not covered on the national immunisation program (e.g. travel vaccines, whooping cough boosters

Please ask our staff if you have any questions, or drop them in the comments here! 💙🩷

31/10/2025

BB-ig Announcement!

We have momentous news to share today - we are going to trial a move to being a mostly bulk-billing practice from Saturday, the 1st of November 2025.

Many patients will have noticed a lot of talk about bulk-billing in the media in recent months. There has been additional funding announced to enourage GP clinics to increase how many appointments they bulk-bill.

We'd like to stress that this will be a TRIAL for 3-6 months. We're honestly quite uncertain if a change to mostly bulk-billing is going to be financially sustainable for the practice, but we'd really like to make it work if we can!

A small number of appointment types will still attract a gap fee - predominantly procedures - and we will provide more information about this in coming days.

- The Westside Medical Team

14/10/2025

Our new website!

Eagle-eyed patients may have noticed our updated website launched quietly last week. The address is the same, but we have an all-new design 😍

www.westsidemedical.com.au

We'll have more updates coming to the website over the next few weeks

13/10/2025

Some bittersweet news today...

Dr Geoff Arthurson has announced that he'll be leaving general practice at the end of the year, to retrain as a psychiatrist. We're very sad to lose Dr Arthurson as one of the GPs here at WMC. However, we are desperately in need of more psychiatrists in Port Macquarie! We eagerly await the day when we can refer our patients to Geoff in his new specialty 💙🩷

Dr Arthurson's last day will be Friday, 19th December.

07/10/2025

Are you our new Practice Manager?

We're seeking a great team leader. Work collaboratively with our excellent group of admin staff, nurses and doctors, in partnership with supportive GP owners. All the details in our job ad!

https://www.seek.com.au/job/87702048

10/09/2025

A message from Dr Elizabeth Ryrie

It has been a pleasure having Dr Ryrie as a colleague here at Westside. We're going to miss her just as much as her patients!😢 The silver lining is that Dr Ryrie will still be serving the Hastings Community as part of the NSW Health Palliative Care Team 💙🩷

02/09/2025

More new artwork 🤩

We've added some more new pieces to the walls from the fantastic Alejandro Lauren, who even visited in person last week to hand deliver an original piece that was proving difficult to ship. (Thanks Wayde!) We love the bright colours and how much they have elevated the feel of our waiting areas 🌈

Thanks to Sunset Framing & Gallery who have done an amazing job helping us select frames and hanging pieces for us.

There are more photos and artwork still in the pipeline to go up soon!

25/08/2025

We're looking to grow our nursing team!

Seeking a part-time or full-time RN to add to our team, please share if you know someone who may be interested 🩷💙

Grow your nursing career in a supportive, collaborative environment at a well-regarded locally owned GP clinic. Competitive salary and benefits.

17/08/2025

New artwork!

It's closing in on a year since we started our practice renovations and we're finally getting around to the finishing touches🤩

You'll be able to spot a number of photographs from excellent local photographer Alex McNaught - Roving-Eye.com photography, including this stunner of Tacking Point Lighthouse.

We hope you love them as much as we do!