Clare Medical Centre provide an after hours emergency service at the Clare Hospital in partnership with Victoria Road Medical Centre: 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
If you are seen by a doctor from another practice, your ongoing care will be handed over to your regular clinic the next working day.
To access after hours emergency services:
- Call 000 for medical emergencies requiring an Ambulance.
- Alternatively, you can contact Health Direct on 1800 022 222.
- Call Clare Hospital on (08) 8842 6500, or present to the hospital for assessment if it is an emergency.
Snowtown/Burra
Call 000 for medical emergencies requiring an Ambulance.
Phone the clinic and your call will be diverted to the Clare Medical Centre.
Phone Burra Hospital (08) 8892 2300 or Snowtown Hospital (08) 8865 0100 to speak to a nurse, who will be able to contact the duty doctor if required.
Present to Burra or Snowtown Hospital and the nurse will contact the duty doctor if required.
Rural Emergency Responders Network (RERN)
Clare Medical Centre is proud to be home to the three Rural Emergency Responder Network (RERN) doctors that cover the Mid North area.
Doctors Gerry Considine, Prash Kuruppu and Geordie Beath can be called to attend ambulance scenes 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. This network is a vital assistance to our volunteer ambulance crews and can help stabilise patients prior to the arrival of a retrieval team by helicopter or road transfer to Adelaide.
During clinic hours, it means that these doctors (and/or the on call doctor) may be called away from the medical centre at short notice. We appreciate your understanding if you are asked to wait or re-schedule due to such emergencies.
In addition, the doctors are involved with local ambulance training sessions to help with upskilling and also practice working together in difficult and stressful situations.
