About Gold City Medical Centre
Family Physicians for Charters Towers
"Caring for your Heath"
We endeavour to provide our patients with the best and most current treatments. We are committed to promoting health, well-being and disease prevention to all patients. We do not discriminate in the provision of excellent care and aim to treat all patients with dignity and respect.
Gold City Medical Centre provides a comprehensive range of general practice health services. We treat the very young with childhood immunisation and care for common childhood illnesses. Adolescent health, women's health and men's health needs are catered for within our practice. Our doctors are all trained in doing comprehensive skin checks and the surgical treatment of skin cancers. Our procedure area allows the doctors to do a wide range of other minor operations under local anaesthesia.
The doctors together with our nurses, do health assessments and develop care plans for those with long term illnesses and chronic diseases such as diabetes. We care for those with mental healthcare needs from short term episodes of stress and anxiety to those with more long term requirements. We provide employment medicals to mining companies and other local employers.
Our town has a large elderly population. Our practice offers services specific to this group of patients including care of leg ulcers and management of complex medical conditions and medications. We provide home visits and nursing home visits to the elderly, which are arranged through our nursing staff. Our practice provides afterhours advice and care for those whose health deteriorates during the afterhours period, however, in an emergency situation always ring 000 for the ambulance to take you to hospital for immediate care.