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north east regional extra | August 9 - 15, 2023

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August 9 - 15, 2023

By BAILEY ZIMMERMANN

OPEN Door Neighbourhood House in Wangaratta hopes free community health checks can spring the community back to health leading into the change of season. Starting on August 23, the Neighbourhood House will be running free community health checks for four Wednesday’s leading into spring to provide checkups on basic health and wellbeing concerns. Representatives from Gateway Health, HMS Community and Mental Health and Wellbeing Local will be on hand across the four sessions. The service will be available on every Wednesday from August 23 until September 13, running from 12pm-1:30pm. Open Door Neighbourhood House project worker, Tanya Grant, said the Neighbourhood House has regularly visited community organisations to provide free community health checks, but decided this month to have them more available to the community at their Yarrunga based hub. “A lot of the feedback we were getting as we went out to these community groups was that people weren’t necessarily seeing their GPs as often as they once were,” she said. “Sometimes it’s not like there’s something wrong, sometimes it’s just checking on your blood pressure, how your pulse is, how you’re feeling mentally with your mood and how things are generally in your life.

Springing back to health

◆ COME ON IN: Nick Youings (HMS Community), Tanya Grant (Open Door Neighbourhood House) and Greg Milton (Gateway Health) are excited to be bringing the local community the chance to have free community health checks on four Wednesday’s starting August 23 at the neighbourhood house. PHOTOS: Kurt Hickling

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