Your Local Community Pharmacy

Bluewater Healthsave Pharmacy

2 Purono Parkway, Yabulu 4818

PH: 07 4778 6233

FAX: 07 4778 6733

8.30am – 6pm Monday – Friday

8.30am – 1pm Saturday

Balgal Beach Healthsave Pharmacy

114 Mystic Avenue, Balgal Beach 4816

PH: 07 4770 7400

FAX: 07 4770 7399

8.30am – 5pm Monday – Friday

CLOSED SATURDAY & SUNDAY

FREE Blood Pressure Checks

*Hire Equipment

*NDSS Agent – Diabetes Supplies Blister Packaging for your medicines

*Full Prescription Service

*Ear Piercing *Faulding Vitamins

*Delivery available for those in need

MLE – Making Life Easy (Large range of Home Healthcare aids) Pharmacy Choice Brand Products (Quality product made affordable with 100% money back guarantee). Easy parking available

Monday 1st May.

We wish all our Mothers, Step Mothers and Grandmothers a very Happy Mother’s Day. Hope you all get spoilt.

Health Topic Of The Month

Are you keeping track of your Prescriptions?

Do you know what the PBS Safety Net is?

Are you keeping track of your Safety Net?

The PBS (The Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme) Safety Net reduces the cost of prescription medicines for individuals and families once the threshold is reached.

The Safety Net thresholds are updated each year on the 1st January.

This year dollar ($) amount for concession card holders is 36 prescriptions or $262.80. For General patients it is $1563.50.

Once you have reached the Safety Net threshold, concession card patients will receive all PBS prescriptions FREE of charge (excluding drug brand price premiums and private prescriptions). General patients will receive PBS prescriptions at $7.30 (excluding drug brand price premiums and private prescriptions).

You can either keep a record of your prescriptions by obtaining a record card from your local pharmacy or, if you regularly go the same pharmacy, they can keep a record for you.

Families can combine all members of their immediate family.

A family comprises:

• A couple legally married and not separated, or a couple de facto relationship, with or without dependent children who are listed on the same Medicare card or

• A single person with dependent children

NOTE: A dependant is someone younger than 16 years of age or a full-time student younger than 25 years attending school, college or university who is wholly or substantially supported financially.

For more information regarding The PBS Safety Net go to humanservices.gov.au/pbssafetynet

Bluewater Medical Practice

2 PURONO PARKWAY, PURONO PARK

BALGAL BEACH MEDICAL PRACTICE

120 Mystic Avenue Balgal Beach

Open Monday to Friday 8am to 5pm Saturday 8.30am to 1pm

Tel: 07 4778 6444

OR you can book ONLINE via our website www.bluewatermedical.com

General Practitioners and Allied Health Services

Queensland Health has provided the Rollingstone Community Centre with a quantity of Covid 19 Antigen Self-Test kits.

The RAT kits are available at no cost to specified Card Holders and can be picked up from the RTC

Mon-Fri 8am-4pm.

Please wear a mask and use hand sanitiser if you are experiencing flu like symptoms.

Tel: 47707 244 Fax: 47707 100

Email: manager@balgalmedical.com.au

OPEN Monday to Friday 8.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m. CLOSED Saturday, Sunday & all Public Holidays. Appointments are required.

The General Practitioners:

Dr Olga Hasa

Dr Vladimir Hasa

Dr Diana Hopkins

Dr Lucia Rajnoch

Dr Clyton Banya

Dr Renee Brown

Physiotherapy

Free Movement Physio (Fortnightly)

Pathology collection

Wednesday 8.30am-2.00pm

At

Every third Saturday of the Month

**No visit in May**

Returning Saturday June 17th!!!

For all other appointments and dental emergencies, we welcome you to your dental home at MYTOOTHDOCTOR TM Family, Paediatric and Special Care Dentistry

Bushland Beach Medical Centre www.mytoothdoctor.com.au T 07 4751 8999

Sadly, we’ve heard that Gwen Cahill has passed away. Such a capable lady who gave much of herself for the betterment of our community when she and Peter lived here. Our thoughts are with her family at this time. Vale Gwen.

Quite a few unwell: Rosa Christian, Margaret Butterworth, Dickie Charleston, Tony Richards, Gordon Payne, Geoff Prytherch, Bob Selby and too many with Covid, which seems to be running amok. Let’s hope these folk improve rapidly to enjoy doing more of what they like best.

Merle Douglas has moved to town. We will miss little Merle. She was always involved in whatever was going on and a very talented, crafty lady who contributed any way she could. We wish her well in the next phase of her life.

• It’s been all hands on deck at the Community Centre with daily activities and preparations for upcoming functions all in the planning stage. Along with that, we make presentation to the relevant authorities regarding services (or the lack thereof!!) and deal with community needs as required. And, we seem to have had a surfeit of meetings as well.

• The specialist craft evenings have to date been a success. Hope this continues to be so. Mosaics coming up in June.

• The Newbies’ Morning Tea was an abject disappointment and failure – for the second year! I think we know by now that it’s not needed and that everyone new to the district knows everything there is to know anyhow………until they need to know something and present at the RTC looking for advice/ assistance. We will give them a gift bag and attend to their wants and needs and I guess that IS all that’s wanted or needed. Again, we had 2 couples and one single chap new to the district turn up and a room full of well-meaning and well-intentioned local leaders, convenors and organisers. Oh well, I guess we’ve gotten the message this time. But a huge thanks to everyone who contributed to the morning.

• The staff and volunteers at the RTC have all been versed in the need for confidentiality. However, if you have work to do with Chrissie at the RTC and are concerned about your privacy, just advise Chrissie of this and there is a room available to accommodate this.

• So, sorry, but nothing much to write home about this issue – and probably that’s good!

Use a Packet of Vanilla or Butter Cake Mix and lie the fruit (of choice) on the cake batter. Cooking time may need to be extended drained, tinned apple slices, sliced bananas, and stewed peaches so far and each one has been very yumm.

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

Live well, love much, laugh often

Sunday 14th May