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Flu Vaccinations for 2026 –Â we have now received the full stock of vaccinations that will cover both private and government funded flu vaccinations.
1. The government funded vaccination program are free to patients 65 years and older as well as children aged from 6 months to less than 5 years of age. The flu vaccine is also free to pregnant women and any Indigenous patients.
2. You may also qualify if you have a chronic immunocompromised disease. Speak to your doctor to see if this applies to your health condition.
3. If you do not quality for a free vaccination, the cost to be immunised stays the same as last year at $20.00
4. We will also be purchasing for patients aged from 2 years and up to 18 years a needle-free option. The “Flumist” nasal spray vaccination is not funded by the government. There will be a private fee of $55.00 if interested.
5. All appointments for flu vaccination can only be booked by calling reception on 9435 1144 and can be with our team of nurses or with your doctor of choice if that suits you.
Book your general appointment with your doctor online, now available – You can now book an appointment online with most of the doctors – via the website or you can download AMS Connect app from your app store and find us to book. Apologise not all doctors allow online bookings to be made. Your doctor will have a notification about calling reception to book with them within the online booking portal.
Do you need an interpreter to assist your consultation? – We can assist you with this. Please call reception to discuss. We can organise an interpreter through TIS – Translating & Interpreting Service. Call 1800 131 450 to access an immediate phone interpreter or call 1300 655 082 to make an enquiry about this service.
New Patients – we are currently taking new patients to the clinic for only Dr Ishita Palit, Dr Robert Chu and Dr Anne Connell. Please call our reception team on 9435 1144 to discuss further and make an appropriate first appointment or you may book online with either Dr Chu or Dr Connell. Dr Palit will require you to call reception. This will be an extended appointment. Dr Chu and Dr Palit will require you to live locally to the clinic in the surrounding suburbs to Montmorency, such as Eltham, Greensborough and Briar Hill.
We use AutoMed for your Appointment reminder’s & confirmation, your Clinical Recall Reminder & your Results notification service. We will have one dedicated mobile phone number for this service, it is 0438 326 787. Please save this number as Sherbourne Road Medical Clinic.
Recall & Reminder service – all letters for your recalls and reminders are sent electronically via a text message. When you receive this text message from the clinic, we encourage you to read the message, and make an appointment if required.
Results service – When your results have been received by the clinic and your doctor has checked the result, you will receive a text message from the clinic to advise one of 3 actions:
1. No Action – if the results are normal and no further action is required. If your doctor has made a comment you will be advised in the text message.
2. Discussion of result required – if the result needs to be discussed, you will receive a text message to please call the clinic nursing team between 2-3pm Monday to Friday to discuss further.
3. Appointment required – you may need an appointment with your doctor to discuss these results. You will be advised to call reception and make an appointment.
Appointment reminders – All appointments are sent a reminder 48 hours before your appointment, please reply to this text message with YES to confirm or No to cancel. You may also call reception on 9435 1144 to reschedule.
Cervical Screening – Self Test – Cervical Screening Self Test – How to guide
Mask’s are only now required if you are unwell  – please remain in your car, call reception to advise you have arrived in the car park and wait for the doctor to call you before you enter the clinic. If you are well you no longer need to wear a mask while inside the clinic, however you may wear a mask if that is your preference. Some of the doctors and staff will still wear a mask if they prefer to do so. We thank you for being supportive of wearing masks in the past.
COVID-19 Booster Vaccination – You can still book an appointment to receive this vaccination of Pfizer.
Process for patients with Respiratory symptoms – our protocol for patients who are suffering respiratory symptoms such as fever, cough, runny nose, sore throat is to call reception so you can be made an appropriate appointment. You will be asked to remain in your car and not sit in the waiting room until the doctor is ready to see you.
The reason we book patients this way is to reduce the risk of bringing infection into the clinic where many vulnerable patients may be. We want to keep you all safe and infection free as we can. We also need to protect doctors, nurses and administration staff who CANNOT WORK if they have any symptoms at all until they are free of symptoms and had a COVID negative PCR swab undertaken. We do not want to have to cancel appointments already booked due to this and inconvenience patients.