Our GPs have extensive experience dealing with children’s health issues.

We offer bulk billing for GP consultations for children aged 15 years and under with a valid Medicare card, but only between 10am and 4pm on weekdays. Outside of these times, our usual private fees will apply.

CHILDHOOD immunisations

Our Practice Nurse is experienced in administering child vaccinations, including vaccines on the Victorian Immunisation Schedule (starting from 6 weeks of age), catch-up vaccines, annual flu vaccines and travel vaccines.

Child Immunisations must be booked with our Practice Nurse. Please call us on 03 8506 9949 to book an appointment - you cannot book child immunisations online. Our nurse works between 9.30am and 4pm Monday to Friday. Child immunisation appointments may not be available outside these times and will incur our usual private fees.

new to australia?

If you and your young family have recently moved to Australia from overseas (or returned to Australia having lived overseas), you will need to ensure that details of all of the vaccinations your child has been given outside of Australia are uploaded onto the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR) and that the AIR Immunisation History Statement for your child indicates that they are up-to-date with all vaccines required under the National Immunisation Program Schedule (NIPS).

Until you do so, you may not be able to send your child to school, kindergarten or childcare under the state government’s “No jab, no play” policy and similar government and school policies, and you may not be entitled to federal government child care subsidies and family tax benefits. You will not be able to simply show your foreign vaccination records to the school, kindergarten or childcare centre, as the information needs to be set out in an official AIR Immunisation History Statement (see sample here).

As a recognised vaccination provider, we can add your child’s vaccine records to the AIR for you. Simply visit our clinic with your child’s vaccination records (with a certified translation into English if the document does not already include vaccine details in English) and pay an administrative fee of $50 per child, and our Practice Nurse will upload the vaccine details into your child’s record.

The process takes approximately 1 to 2 weeks, and once complete we’ll provide you with a copy of the AIR Immunisation History Statement to give to your child’s school, kindergarten or childcare.

We’ll also advise you if your child needs any catch-up vaccines (sometimes required if the NIPS includes vaccines that are not given in other countries, or if the NIPS requires additional booster doses), and if so we can book an appointment for these. Note that catch up vaccines for people aged under 20 are free under the NIPS.

If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact us.