Mornington Health Centre Hours for Registered Patients

Normal Practice Hours

 Weekdays            8am – 6pm

 After Hours Urgent Service

A Doctor is on duty weeknights, weekends, and public holidays until 10pm for URGENT problems.

Weeknights         6pm -10pm

Weekends       8am – 10pm 

The On-call Doctor is not always on-site, please phone first to arrange a consultation.

03 466 5011 

If you phone after 10pm your call will be answered by a registered health professional who will help you to manage your health concern and advise you of the action to take.

If you have an acute life-threatening problem call 111 or go directly to the Emergency Department at Dunedin Hospital

Te Whatu Ora Translator Services are available at MHC.

If you are needing an interpreter for your consultation, see reception and they can arrange an interpreter for any of the languages listed below.

Ki te whai koe i tētahi kaiwhakamārama reo māori mo ōu hui hauora, korero atu ki ngā kaiwhakatau manuhiri hei whakarite. Ki te hiahia i tētahi kaiwhakamārama reo kē atu, e āhei hoki rātou te whakarite

如果您在看诊是需要翻译员，请告 诉前台人员，他们可以安排以下语 言的翻译员

اگر برای صحبت با دکتر و یا پرستار به مترجم یا ترجمان نیاز دارید، لطفاً به منشی بگویید. ایشان میتواند برای زبانهای زیر برای شما مترجم پیدا کنند.

اردو، دری، فارسی،

آفریکان یا زبان آفریقایی، عربی، باهاسا اندونزیایی، کنتونیز، چینی، جزایر کوک، مائوری، آلمانی، فیجیایی، فرانسه، هلندی، هندی، گجراتی، ایتالیایی، ژاپنی، خمر، کره‌ای، مالایالام، مالایی، ماندارین، زبان اشاره نیوزیلندی، پنجابی، روسی، صربی -کروات، سین‌هالا، اسپانیایی، تاگالوگ، تامیل، تایلندی، تونگایی، ویتنامی

Afrikaans, Arabic, Bahasa Indonesia, Cantonese, Chinese, Cook Islands Māori, Dari, Dutch, English, Fijian, French, German, Gujarati, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Malayalam, Malaysian, Mandarin, Māori, New Zealand Sign Language, Niuean, Persian, Punjabi, Russian, Samoan, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhala, Spanish, Tagalog, Tamil, Thai, Tongan, Urdu, and Vietnamese

All patients will now be seen in the practice during usual business hours.

(There will be no changes to our existing After-Hours Service)

Masks are optional BUT are required if you are infectious in any way.

This includes:

• Respiratory symptoms
• Fever
• Diarrhoea
• Vomiting

We appreciate your cooperation and understanding.

The MHC Team.

Tamariki aged 6 months to 4 years who are immunocompromised or have multiple or complex health conditions are eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine.

From 9 February a version of the paediatric Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine will be available for children aged 6 months to 4 years who are at higher risk of severe disease if they were to get COVID-19.

MHC will not be offering this vaccine, if your child is eligible, you will be able to book a vaccine by:

• calling Healthline on 0800 28 29 26
• visiting nz(external link).

Eligibility criteria for young children

The vaccine is available for children aged from 6 months to 4 years who have the following health conditions:

• chronic lung disease
• serious heart conditions such as congestive heart failure or congenital
• heart disease
• diabetes
• chronic kidney disease
• chronic neurological or neuromuscular disease such as cerebral palsy
• Down syndrome
• a weakened immune system or are on an immunosuppressive
• treatment such as chemotherapy
• severe haematological disorders
• a transplant in the last 24 months.

Children who are not in any of the high-risk categories are not eligible for the vaccine as they have a low likelihood of severe illness from COVID-19.

Changes to eligibility for free COVID-19 healthcare

From 13 February, you may need to pay for COVID-19-related visits to your healthcare provider.

With the Omicron variant circulating, most people can recover at home. This is due to very high vaccination levels and widespread natural immunity.

People eligible for free healthcare

If you are at higher risk of becoming very sick with COVID-19, you are still eligible for free healthcare from your doctor.

This protects those who are most at risk of getting very ill from COVID-19, including:

• people with certain high-risk medical conditions
• Māori
• Pacific peoples
• people with certain disabilities
• those over the age of 65
• anyone else that meets the criteria for access to antiviral medicines.

High-risk medical conditions

Who can get antivirals

If you have COVID-19

If you are isolating at home, you should call Healthline on 0800 358 5453 if you need advice or guidance on managing your symptoms.

You can also contact your local pharmacist or your doctor here at MHC if you need to see someone.

If you require hospital-level care, it remains free.

Kia ora,

As you may be aware, our computer system has not, until now, been good at accurately reflecting the gender preferences of gender-diverse people. There have been limited choices (male, female and unknown), and no ability to differentiate between sex assigned at birth and current gender. In addition, there was no ability to select preferred pronouns and the optional titles were very narrow.

We are delighted to let you know that this has now changed. For all patients there is both a sex assigned at birth category as well as multiple gender choices. There is also the ability to enter personalized gender descriptions, pronouns, and titles if none of the available choices are a good fit.

Please let us know what your preferred gender, pronouns, and title are.

The MHC Courtesy Coach is back on the road again!!  Our Courtesy Coach is free to registered MHC patients.  Please advise our reception staff if you would like to book the coach at the time you book your appointment. This service is limited to specific areas, please phone reception for more information.

A second COVID-19 booster is available for:

• everyone over the age of 50 and recommended for anyone over the age of 65
• Māori and Pacific Peoples older than 50
• people who are severely immunocompromised
• health, aged-care and disability workers over the age of 30.

For those not at risk of severe illness from COVID-19, a two-dose primary course and one booster continues to provide very good protection. So, for those who haven’t had a first booster, please act now.

The second booster dose should be given 6 months after the previous dose, and postponed for 3 months after a COVID-19 infection.

A second booster dose is not recommended for anyone who is pregnant and is healthy, including those with no underlying health conditions which could increase the risk of severe COVID-19.

Staying up-to-date with the recommended COVID-19 vaccinations will continue to protect you from the risk of serious illness, hospitalisation or death.

How to book a second booster:

If you are eligible you can book an appointment online through Book My Vaccine or by calling the COVID Vaccination Healthline on 0800 28 29 26 (8am to 8pm, 7 days a week).

MHC continues to offer all nursing services including cervical smears and immunisations.  If your child is due for their immunisations, please phone reception to book an appointment. We ask that only one adult accompanies your child to the practice and no siblings if this is at all possible.

MHC would like to remind all patients that ‘no news means good news’ in relation to all tests.

Your GP or Practice Nurse will only contact you if there is something which you need to know about your test results, or which requires follow up.

If you do not hear from your GP or Practice Nurse, this means that your results are all fine and there is nothing further you need to do.