WEST Dubbo residents will be able to access one of the leading medical practices in regional NSW from today without having to cross the Macquarie River.
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Dubbo Medical and Allied Health Group will be opening their Delroy Park rooms which will be located in the building shared with the Woolworths shopping centre.
One of the directors of the group, Dr Sunil Jacob said the new rooms were an expansion of the existing practice at 42 Bultje Street and the six large consulting rooms at Delroy Park will provide access not only to general practitioners but allied health practitioners like podiatrists, occupational therapists or diabetes educators.
Dr Jacob said because of the level of computer technology used by the health group nearly all of the of the more than 18,000 patients would be available at just the stroke of a keyboard.
This would allow patients to book in for appointments at either of the group's rooms, Dr Jacob said.
Because of the Medical and Allied Health Group's multi-disciplinary approach to medicine it will also offer telehealth consultations with out-of-town specialists both in Sydney and Canberra.
"We offer care and treatment from birth to retirement-age people," Dr Jacob said.
He said the new rooms in Delroy Park would accept existing or new patients as well as walk-ins or those who choose to book appointments online.
Another of the group's directors, Dr Vijay Pandya said Dubbo Medical and Allied Health was now one of the leading medical centres in regional NSW and it matched the federal government's program to establish GP super-clinics but with greater levels of success.
He said it offered access to niche-specialists like neurologists, cardiologists, psychiatrists as well as a bariatric surgeon - a specialist in obesity and lap-banding.
Acting as a trainer and mentor to young doctors in training or registrars was another important part of the groups' operations and currently students from James Cook University in Townsville as well as from the University of New England, Newcastle and Sydney were gaining experience at the groups' rooms.
Dr Pandya said the experience gained by the students at their centre was far more diverse than could be found in metropolitan clinics and often served to motivate them to choose to stay in regional NSW to settle and continue to practise.
