Gore Medical Centre, GP with patient, New Zealand

Services

At the Gore Medical Centre, we provide medical services to the people of Eastern Southland who are enrolled with us.
Enrolment with the Gore Medical Centre means that we can offer you subsidised visits to your Doctor or nurse for some services.

Options for accessing health services at Gore Medical Centre

The Gore Medical Centre is able to offer in-person consultations and services as well as tele-medicine services. These include:

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MyIndici

this service allows you to:

  • Access your own health records and review results;
  • Contact your own Doctor or nurse about health issues by email messaging;
  • Make appointments online (not yet activated);
  • Receive notifications and messages from the Medical Centre;
  • Doctor related to your own care needs.
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Telephone consultations and triage

  • Many health concerns and questions can be sorted by telephone without needing to come to the Medical Centre.
  • If you have acute health issues, please ring the practice and a health professional will contact you as soon as possible about it.
  • If you have a health issue that you feel could be sorted by telephone you can now book a phone appointment.
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Video consultations

  • This is a new service the Medical Centre is offering using Dr Info.
  • If you think your health issue could be dealt with over a video consult please contact the practice to request an appointment.

If you have any questions about these services or would like to sign up to MyIndici, please phone the practice for more information.

GP Services

The Gore Medical Centre offers a comprehensive range of general practice services provided by NZMC registered doctors. These include:

Adult ADHD

Diagnosing and treating adult ADHD

Changes occurred from 1 February 2026 that will allow GPs to diagnose and treat adult ADHD patients.  

In June 2025, the Ministry of Health gave the green light to GPs and nurse practitioners to initiate treatment for adults with ADHD, starting 1 February. Currently GPs can only prescribe ADHD medicines to patients already being treated by a paediatrician or psychiatrist, meaning long delays for access to treatments such as Ritalin.

While GPs will be keen to help ADHD patients and reduce wait times, the transition will require public understanding about what the changes will mean.   While specialist GPs will, after appropriate training, be able to offer an ADHD service, it’s likely only a small number of GPs will have the training required to diagnose ADHD from 1 February. 

Assessments will need diagnostic rigour to meet appropriate standards and will typically take more than an hour over several visits, roughly the same as seeing a psychologist or psychiatrist.

There is currently no funding allocation to GPs and primary health care to cover GP training and diagnosis of ADHD, as it sits outside the current public funding model. Time spent on ADHD will be unsubsidised and will therefore need to be fully patient-funded.

At typical private GP rates, the cost of an ADHD assessment is likely to be comparable to the current consultation fee of a private psychiatrist or psychologist, typically between $800 to $2,000.

Please note that at this time, there are no GPs at the Gore Medical Centre who are trained to do ADHD assessments.  Currently there are only private options for adult ADHD assessments in Southland.

Children can continue to be referred to the public system for ADHD assessments.

Laboratory services

Awanui Labs has a collection depot at the Gore Medical Centre.

All routine and acute laboratory tests can be taken by the phlebotomist, Debra Gibson.

The clinic is open Monday to Friday, 8.00am to 12.30pm

All samples need to be brought to the lab prior to 12.30pm for processing.

Other services

Brief Intervention Service – Ada Frost
Health Improvement Practitioner – Janelle Gibson RN
Health Coach – Clinton Chandler

Orthopaedic Specialist – Mr Russell Fowler

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