Fresh new clinic for QMC
Queenstown Medical Centre's brand-new clinic is now open.
The modern facility, in Remarkables Park, comprises nine consulting rooms and has 14 general practitioners available for consultations, in addition to specialty clinics such as sexual health, vasectomy and minor surgical procedures. The new practice has longer opening hours and convenient lunchtime appointments available, as well as easy parking and accessibility, with lift access and wheelchair-friendly corridors and door openings.
QMC has served the Wakatipu community since 1972, and has expanded its facilities as the population has grown.
“The vision for the new Remarkables Park clinic is to continue to provide a modern, conveniently located facility with dedicated health teams in a purpose-built space that’s accessible for everyone," QMC chief executive officer Ashley Light says.
“There has been a lot of consideration and passion gone into the design of the new practice, which has stemmed from our goal of improving the patient experience and journey. This is evident throughout the new facility.
"With increased space and rooms, we are able to accommodate more services – including the free service of health improvement practitioners and health coaches – plus more nurses and increased GP availability.”
With 85 staff across all locations, Queenstown Medical Centre is the largest integrated family health provider in the lower South Island, blending the science of medicine with patient-focused general practice.
Light says the new facility, at Level 2, 12 Hawthorne Drive, Remarkables Park, sets QMC up for the next 25-30 years of health support for our growing community, and now is a great time to enrol.
QMC continues to offer urgent and after-hours care to enrolled, casual and visitor patients. Enrolled patients pay discounted fees for this service at the longstanding Isle Street clinic, which offers the only 365-days-a-year urgent care in the district. Isle St also offers immigration medicals, travel medicine, sexual health appointments, fracture, musculoskeletal, nutrition and contraceptive device clinics, and facilitates access to radiology and ultrasound, pharmacy, and physiotherapy. The Jacks Point practice continues to operate as normal.
