Appendix A - Need and Impact Analysis

Cooroy Family Practice has two (2) Doctors and a Paediatrician. An Allied Health Team also
supports Cooroy Family Medical and includes a psychologist, Exercise Physiologist and
Dietitian. Cooroy Family Practice can bulk bill 100% for Medicare cardholders for general
medical appointments. Any non-Medicare card holder patient will be required to pay a fee.
Cooroy Family Practice is open Monday to Friday from 8am to 5pm.
Cooroy Family Practice is located 1.8 kilometres south of the proposed doctor’s practice at
15 Pearsons Road, Cooroy.


3.5    Capacity of existing medical practices
Palm Lake Works has conducted a capacity assessment for each of the above mentioned
practices. The data that forms this capacity assessment was obtained from each medical
practice and reported for the purposes of determining the need for the proposed Doctors
Practice at 15 Pearson’s Road, Cooroy.

Information obtained included the amount of doctors, there employment terms (full
time/part time), availability, how busy each practice is (rating between 1 not busy and 10
very busy and their opinion regarding additional medical practices.

       3.5.1 Maple Street Surgery

Maple Street Surgery has been open for 37 years and assists in further medical care for the
Eden Hospital. The practice currently has six fulltime doctors, where all their books are open
to future clients. All doctors are very busy, with new patients being required to wait 1-3 days
to secure an appointment.

Maple Street Surgery stated their practice is constantly busy, rating it a 10. The practice
believes Cooroy would benefit tremendously from more permanent doctors.

       3.5.2 Cooroy Family Medical

Cooroy Family Medical was first established in 1996 and has grown into a larger Medical
Practice over the years. The practice currently has seven doctors, three full time with the
remaining four being part time. Out of the seven doctors, two doctors books are closed and
cannot accept any new clients. Same day appointments are difficult to obtain, existing clients
generally wait 1-2 days to be seen by their doctor.

Cooroy Family Medical is a very busy medical practice and rated it a 10 due to the wait times,
appointments and large clientele. Cooroy Family Medical stated Cooroy needs more doctors,


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