Melton Mail

Doctors in Schools

Program Update

Does your young person have trouble with sleeping, skin, asthma or any other health concern?? 

The Doctor’s in Secondary Schools Program at MSC has relaunched and appointments are now available for students. We are lucky to have Dr Phyo and a Nurse from Headspace Melton available each Thursday to support our students and it is FREE.

Having a Doctor available once a week aims to: 

  • provide medical advice and health care to our students
  • make seeing a GP more accessible to students
  • provide assistance to young people to identify and address any health problems early
  • aim to reduce the pressure on working parents and community-based GPs.

Students can make appointments in the following ways:

  • scan QR code and send an expression of interest 
  • speak to the Duty Worker at the Wellbeing office 
  • visit DS1 on a Thursday during their breaktime and talk to the nurse 
  • Email wellbeingmelton@meltonsc.vic.edu.au
  • Parents/guardians/carers/staff members can send an email to wellbeingmelton@meltonsc.vic.edu.au or call the school on 9743 3322 to talk to wellbeing team. 

The program’s consent and confidentiality policy was developed in consultation with experts including: the Australian Medical Association, the Australian Education Union, Parents Victoria and the Victorian Association of Secondary School Principals.

Consistent with Australian common law, the program recognises that:

  • any student who wants to see the GP will be permitted to book an appointment
  • the GP will decide whether the young person is mature enough to consent to medical treatment or whether parent/carer consent is needed – as is the case with all GPs in the community
  • the right for a young person’s health information to be kept confidential will be respected unless the disclosure is with the consent of the young person or it is otherwise permitted by law – as is the case with all GP practice in the community

Please follow the link below to access the consent and confidentiality policy.