Services

• Services

• Services provided by VECA Medical Health Centre include:

  • General & family medical care
  • Appearance medicine
  • Newborn and Wellchild care
  • Flu shots and immunisations
  • Travel health advice and vaccinations
  • ACC accidents management
  • Minor surgery, biopsy and excision of skin lesions. Ingrown toe nails wedge resection.
  • Incision and drainage of abscesses
  • Skin cancer and mole checks  
  • Early pregnancy advice and care
  • Insurance medicals
  • Driving medicals
  • Women's health including a nurse cervical smear taker
  • Men's health
  • ECGs and heart checks
  • Family planning and sexual health
  • Palliative care
  • Subsidised chronic care management and care plus programmes
  • IV infusions
  
  

• Well Baby Checks

• Babies are checked periodically during their first year of life to ensure that they are developing correctly. The first appointment is usually a few days after the mother and child have returned home after the birth, then a fortnight later, then monthly up to four months then at six, nine months and at a year. Babies are weighed and measured to make sure that they are arriving at the various developmental milestones. 
  Apart from checking an infant’s physical and emotional growth, these sessions provide a great opportunity for parents to ask questions from an expert and have any problem addressed; difficulties with breastfeeding or sleep for example. They are also used to discuss immunisations and vaccinations.