Comprehensive Services
ProCare GPs and nurses offer comprehensive healthcare services to treat your illness, disease or injury, as well as immunisations, screenings and a mental health and wellness programmes.
ProCare's practice teams work together with other health professionals to offer you the right healthcare service to treat your illness, disease or injury.
We're also skilled in helping you with illness prevention. Contact your doctor's office or general practice to schedule an appointment with a doctor (GP), registered nurse or another health professional.
Available healthcare services include:
- Assessment, diagnosis and treatment of illness, disease and injury
- Management of long-term or chronic health conditions (eg, diabetes)
- Immunisations and health screenings
- Wellness and prevention programmes
- Sexual health, STI's and contraception
- Sports medicine
- Women's and men's health
- Children's health
- Mental health
- Minor surgery
- Smoking cessation advice and assistance.
Our supporting programmes:
ProCare supports these healthcare services by providing our doctors and nurses with the right health programmes to assess your risk of disease, manage health issues and help you avoid hospital stays. Some examples:
- Better access to X-rays and other diagnostic tests
- B4 School Check for four year olds
- Care Plus for high needs patients
- Choose 2B Free anti-smoking counseling
- Chronic Care Management for range of conditions
- CVD Risk assessment for heart conditions
- Diabetes - free annual reviews
- Mental Health - range of services available
- Palliative Care for patients and their family
- Primary Options for Acute Care to avoid hospital stays
- Self-Management of long-term conditions
- Sexual Health services for those under 22
Contact your doctor to find out more.
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New: ProCare Nurse Clinics
If you are a patient of a ProCare practice, you may not always need to see your doctor for all your medical needs. In many cases, quality care may also be available to you through your practice's nurse clinic - another important initiative by your general practice team at your 'medical home'.
Attending an appointment at a nurse clinic overseen by your doctor means you can take advantage of the following benefits:
- • Easier access to health care
- • Less waiting time for an appointment and possibility of longer appointments
- • Access to health education and advice to help you understand your condition better
- • Self-management planning tools
- • Access to preventative care and lifestyle monitoring with a nurse specialist
- • Improved management of long term medical conditions
- • Access to two or more health care professionals with complementary strengths and perspectives.
Nurse clinics are led by highly experienced nurses who have expertise in certain areas of health care, such as chronic disease management, palliative care, or diabetes management. While you may have popped in to see your nurse about a specific health area, your nurse can also give you an all-round check-up and help with other services such as; cervical and cardiovascular screenings, vaccinations, and other tests, just as your doctor would.
Nurse clinics are now available at many ProCare practices.
If it sounds like a nurse clinic may be right for you or a member of your family/whanau, please talk to a member of your ProCare practice.
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"Growing evidence demonstrates that people receiving care at nurse clinics demonstrate improved health outcomes for a range of conditions. The evidence supports the establishment of nurse clinics as an effective means of providing health care to people in a range of settings, and as a recommended strategy for addressing your health needs."
(New Zealand Nursing Organisation).
Last updated on: 10 Apr 2012