Travel advice and vaccination

At Crows Nest Medical Practice, we offer a full range of travel medicines & vaccinations.

If you are travelling to a number of different countries, you should book a long consultation (30 minutes) to complete the comprehensive advice, medication scripts, vaccinations, and international vaccination certificates.

As part of your pre-travel advice, we also ensure you are up to date with all government recommended vaccinations for illnesses such as tetanus, whooping cough, influenza, polio, measles, mumps and rubella.

When to visit your doctor?

Travellers should see their doctor at least 1-2 months before travel.

A number of vaccinations need to be given as a course of usually 2-3 vaccines over anywhere between 1-6 months with the last dose completed within a certain timeframe before departure. This enables your immune system to build sufficient antibody immunity to protect you prior to arrival in the foreign country.

If you are unsure when to book an appointment, please look at our link for the Centres for Disease Control & Prevention to learn more information about the country in which you plan to travel, and the relevant disease risk.

Surgical & Other Procedures

We attend to skin tears, cuts, and lacerations, using local anaesthetics if required.

Please inform reception of your injury so we can advise you of the appropriate care you require at the time. One of the clinical team will assess you so we can stabilise and repair the injury as soon as possible.

For more complex cases, such as deep internal injuries or for young children (possibly requiring  sedation or a general anaesthetic), we can help with the initial assessment and transfer to an emergency department or a private surgeon for further treatment.

Some of the doctors insert and remove Implanon contraceptive devices or Mirena IUDs. These procedures require a 30 minute (long) consultation. If this is the first time you are receiving the Implanon or Mirena IUD, please book in with the doctor for a discussion first to ensure it is the best option for you and the procedure fully explained to you.

Excision of skin lesions and skin cancers requires an initial consultation with your GP to ascertain if that is the best approach. The doctor will then explain the surgery to you, let you know the length of time required for the procedure, and provide an estimate of the expected out-of-pocket fee, depending on the complexity of surgery required. In general, sutures are removed at the practice anywhere from 5-14 days after the procedure (depending on the site of the procedure).

Ideally, we would like to review the wound at the time of suture removal and therefore we try to avoid doing surgery prior to travel out of Sydney.

All surgery is performed onsite with sterile instruments.

Iron infusion

You may have been advised by your Specialist or GP, that an Iron Infusion is recommended.  This procedure is available in our Practice with GP’s and Registered Nurses who are experienced in the procedure.  It is administrated in a safe, appropriate and timely manner with standard precautions and medication administration guidelines.  If you have been advised to have this procedure please make an appointment with a GP to discuss options.

Pathology

Sydpath is our onsite Pathology Collection Centre and operates a network of collection centres throughout NSW and the Sydney metropolitan area.

Opening hours 8.00am-4.00pm Monday-Friday (Closed for lunch 1.00-1.30pm) and open 8.30am-12.30pm on Saturday.

For many common tests, we can receive your test results rapidly within 1-4 days (please clarify with the Syd Path collector as some tests do take longer to return) by download via an encrypted program to your medical record.

Syd Path have a team of doctors based at St Vincent’s Hospital, a leading teaching hospital in Sydney. Syd Path’s team of pathologists, specialists, scientists and blood collectors provide expert opinion to our team of doctors when required.

Reporting services

Syd Path provides the patient’s results via an electronic software to the doctors at CNMP and offers cumulative reporting of past tests for easier comparison.

Managing Test Results

All pathology and imaging tests ordered by CNMP doctors, will be received at the practice for review by the treating doctor or another doctor in their absence.

Part of our comprehensive care involves reviewing and actioning these results daily. To gain instructions from your doctor on your recent results please ring the practice anywhere between 3 days to a week of having the tests done.

  • We endeavour to contact you immediately of any critical results, It is vitally important that your contact details on your medical file are regularly checked, and updated of any changes.
  • Generally, all abnormal but non-urgent results require an appointment, as they often require a change in management or treatment.  It is important for your doctor to discuss the rational of the changes and to ensure you fully understand the need for any changes.
  • If you have given consent, we can notify you of non-urgent results, reminders and recalls via an SMS, email, phone or letter. We do not routinely notify you of normal results, or those that require no change in management.
  • After your doctor has reviewed your results and any necessary instructions have been conveyed to you, you are welcome to collect a printed copy from reception