By Nasik Swami A new strategy is being looked at to attract and retain general practitioners and specialists in Naracoorte. Limestone Coast Local Health Network Board chairman Grant King says the strategy will focus on retaining medical graduates in the region. “We need to make sure there is more training, so we continue to work with universities and training providers to work on models,” Mr King said. Mr King said there was a model that was used in the Riverland area where doctors were being trained and retained, and that’s something that all the other regions were looking at. “Often people coming into the region, particularly international medical graduates, work in the region and then move onto the metropolitan areas for a whole lot of reasons, so we need to make sure that we can find a way to keep people in the regions practising longer, and that requires a […]

By Wayne Hawthorne Words of medical advice were given to Probus men at their recent meeting while listening to the incredible career of Dr Sarah Mott who is now lecturing at TAFE Mount Gambier, Department of Nursing. Because men are generally poor at addressing physical and mental health, they were told to “get a grease and oil change regularly, irrespective”. If they cannot get a doctor appointment, they were told to “book one well in advance and use or re-schedule as required. It won’t go to waste if unused”. It became apparent that with her career background, Dr Sarah Mott was eminently qualified to speak of these and other medical matters. Sarah commenced nursing in a small country surgical hospital in UK, and worked in various positions in: Fort Myers, Florida; the Middle East; Geelong; Perth; Sydney; Adelaide; and now Mount Gambier. Certainly a highflyer, given she is a qualified […]