AMA Family Doctor Week

Your Family Doctor – Keeping You Healthy

Family Doctor Week is the AMA's annual celebration of the hard work and dedication of the nation's GPs – your family doctors.

The AMA Family Doctor Week theme this year is Your Family Doctor – Keeping you Healthy.

Throughout Family Doctor Week, the AMA will be issuing media releases about the vital role played by family doctors in primary health care, and raising contemporary health policy issues – such as the proposed GP co-payment, changes in medical training, and other Budget measures – that will affect family doctors and their patients.

The AMA will be highlighting the need for people to look after their health through regular checks with their family doctor for:

·         Immunisations;

·         Glaucoma;

·         Blood Pressure, Cholesterol, and Blood Sugar Levels;

·         Bowel Cancer Screening;

·         Mental Health;

·         Child and Infant health;

·         Pap Smears;

·         Breast screening; and

·         Annual health checks.

The AMA encourages local media to make contact with family doctors in your town, suburb, or local community to hear their stories about the joys and the challenges of providing quality health care in your area.

State and Territory AMAs can help you find local family doctors. Please contact:

NSW                                       Lachlan Jones, 02 9902 8113

Victoria                                   Felicity Ryan, 03 9280 8753

Queensland                             Rachael Finley, 07 3872 2209

Western Australia                   Robert Reid, 08 9273 3018

South Australia                       Eva O’Driscoll, 08 8361 0106

Tasmania                                 Lucinda Bray, 03 6223 3333

ACT                                        Christine Brill, 02 6273 0455

NT                                           Fiona Thomson, 08 8941 0937

7 July 2014

CONTACT:        John Flannery                     02 6270 5477 / 0419 494 761

                            Odette Visser                      02 6270 5464 / 0427 209 753