Welcome Dr Michael Zhang Dr Michael will start practising at Heathmont General Practice in late June 2025. Dr Michael enjoys all aspects of general practice with a strong focus on chronic disease management and preventative medicine. Dr Zhang completed a Bachelor of Biomedicine at the University of Melbourne, followed by a Doctor of Medicine at…

Staff Updates
Dr Kaitlin McKinlay will be on Maternity Leave from September to welcome their new addition to their family. Nurse Robyn has retired and those who have come into contact with her will know she will be missed! Our new nurse will be starting in late September, whilst Jodie, Charlotte, Kyah and Maddie hold the fort…

Welcome Dr Sophia Samuel
Dr Sophia Samuel will start seeing patients at HGP from May 2024. Dr Sophie is a skilled and experienced GP who has worked in both rural Victoria and more locally in the Eastern suburbs of Melbourne. Academically she had been involved with the Australian Journal of General Practice as an editor for 8 years. We…

10 years of Heathmont General Practice
4th March 2023 marks 10 years since Heathmont General Practice opened it doors. Drs Peter, Lin, Winnie and Ken pooled their resources together and opened the clinic and are humbled to have been welcomed into Heathmont and are delighted to be part of this wonderful community. The clinic has grown, and so have our patients,…

Dr Kaitlin McKinlay returns from Maternity Leave
HGP is thrilled to welcome Dr Kaitlin McKinlay back to the Team from maternity leave in September. She is working over 3 days each week.

“Thank You!” to our patients
We would like to take this opportunity to thank our patients for being patient with us! We are aware that we have not been able to offer as many appointments to our patients recently. One of our doctors is on maternity leave, and doctors have, and will be taking much needed short breaks, after working…

Telehealth Appointments available as an alternative to Face-to-Face Appointment Updated 7/6/2022
Telehealth has played a critical role in ensuring the continuity of care for hundreds of thousands of Australian patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. These appointments allow patients to consult with their GPs over the phone. Our doctors are all performing face to face consultations with COVID prevention measures, however patients who are eligible, can request…

Information on Novel-Coronavirus COVID-19 and the COVID-19 Vaccine (updated 9/3/2023)
Please note that information is changing at a rapid rate, we will try to update as soon as we can but we are also busy with patients and phones calls at the moment! Remember that social distancing and regular hand washing is essential to help decrease the incidence of infection! ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ From Monday 6th March…

What a 2020!
What a year 2020 has been! The staff of Heathmont General Practice celebrated the crazy year that was right here in our car park with pizza and drinks (and donuts!), a great game of backyard cricket (with controversial allegations of ball tampering by Dr Lin), and a dance party with all your favourites like…

Happy 7 Years for Heathmont General Practice
Can you believe that Heathmont General Practice turned 7 in the last week? Among the chaos of the last months, filled with bushfire smoke related illnesses, phone outages from Telstra-NBN and now the spread of COVID-19 in Australia, our staff have been working extra hard and we have not really had much time to celebrate this milestone. …