Heyfield Medical Centre

• Is the only Medical Practice servicing Heyfield and environs (6,500 people) we have 3 resident GPs and a Gippsland Education & Training for General Practice (Southern GP Training) GPT1 term Registrar.
• Is co-located with Heyfield Hospital, an integrated site with 10 acute Hospital beds, a 30 bed Aged Care Hostel and 22 Nursing Home beds. The Practice provides all of the medical services for this 60 bed facility, and the PGPPP doctor will be involve in this service delivery.
• We have no visiting or resident Medical specialists.
• We have visiting Physiotherapy, Chiropractic, Podiatry, Massage and Child Health Nurse Services.
• Heyfield Hospital is part of Central Gippsland Health Service and its Sale campus, 30 minutes away provides the vast majority of our Specialist support, with 4 General Physicians, 3 General Surgeons, 2 Paediatricians, and 3 Obstetricians.

• Dr Peter Stevens was the founding Director of Training with Gippsland Education & Training for General Practice (Southern GP Training) and Drs Peter Stevens and Dr Lynden Derrick are accredited GP Supervisors with Southern GP Training.
• The Practice is unconditionally accredited with AGPAL and an accredited ACRRM and RACGP GP training site for all levels of GP Training; we currently host 2 John Flynn scholars.
• Heyfield Medical Centre is an accredited training site for the “Small Town ARSP” and in fact Dr Lynden Derrick was the Registrar hosted in the original pilot of this innovation undertaken by Heyfield Medical Centre, Southern GP Training, ACRRM and RACGP.
• Drs Peter Stevens and Dr Lynden Derrick have appointments with Monash University School of Rural Health and host Medical students for GP attachments and PBL tutorials.
• The facility also has an ACCOG sponsored self contained 2 bedroom accommodation for Registrars and / or students.

Medical Staff

Dr Peter Stevens : MBBS FACRRM

Dr Lynden Derrick : MBBS FACRRM FRACGP

Dr Greg Ivanoff : MBBS FRACGP