South City Medical Centre can be found at 270 Elles Road in Invercargill.
Phone: (03) 218 4043
Fax: (03) 214 3997
E-mail: admin.southcitymed@southlinkgp.co.nz
Practice Hours
Monday – Friday
8:30am – 5:00pm
If you require assistance outside of these hours, please phone the Invercargill Urgent Doctors on (03) 218 8821 or Healthline on 0800 611 116.
If seen by an after hours service, you may not been seen by your own General Practitioner. You will need to organise payment of your consultation with the after hours service.
If there is an emergency, please dial 111.
Appointments
While every care is taken to ensure that appointments run on time and to schedule, there may be delays.
Please inform the staff, when booking, if you have time constraints or if you will be running late. We will try and help.
If you have a complex problem, or if you have multiple problems, you may need to have a longer appointment. Double appointments can be arranged; there will be an extra charge.
Results
You will be informed of your test results if it is abnormal. Otherwise, you may phone the surgery to receive your results.
Prescriptions
Please phone for prescriptions before you run out.
There is a charge of $18 for this and a time frame of at least 24 hours must be allowed.
If you have not been seen for the last 3 months, please do not be offended if asked to make an appointment.
All prescriptions are signed at the doctors discretion.
Please note that this practice is contributing to, and accessing healthcare information from HealthOne –
What is HealthOne?
HealthOne is a South Island based secure electronic record that allows registered healthcare providers directly involved in your healthcare, to quickly access information such as your test results, allergies, medications, GP summaries and hospital information.
HealthOne strictly adheres to the principles of the Privacy Act, 2020 as well as Rule 5 (Storage and Security of Health Information) set out in the Health Information Privacy Code 2020.
Access is only possible via an approved highly secure healthcare information network which is regularly audited and tested.
Privacy auditing is used to check that only those directly involved in your care are accessing your information.
To find out more about HealthOne please visit https://healthone.org.nz/.
Please note that you are entitled to restrict the sharing of your healthcare records by calling 0508 837 872.