Helping students access the health care they need

I’m very pleased to announce that Ripley Valley State Secondary College has been selected to participate in the GP's in Schools Pilot.

The Pilot is part of the Queensland Government’s Student Wellbeing Package. The initiative is designed to make it easier for adolescents in Queensland schools to access the healthcare they need.

The Pilot will allow our school to set up a fit-for-purpose GP clinic on school grounds. This clinic will provide students with access to a GP one day each week, during school terms.

What services will the GP provide?

Our school GP clinic will offer secondary students the majority of services that young people are able to access from GP's in the community, including management of physical health, mental health, and sexual and reproductive health issues.

Will there be a cost for students to see the GP?

All visits to the GP will be provided at no cost to students or their families. The GP will bulk-bill all appointments through Medicare, so it is important that students bring their Medicare card (or their Medicare number) with them to their appointment.

Our school clinic staff

Our school ’s GP will be provided by UQ Health Care, an organisation which has successfully partnered with Mabel Park State High School and Beenleigh State High School with their GP in schools programs.  The GP and clinic nurse will be available at school one day a week starting in late April 2022.

Fact sheets on the GP in schools pilot program will be available for students and parents/carers on the school website in coming weeks.  In the meantime, if you have any questions about the school GP clinic, please contact Janet Ingram (Guidance Officer) or Ben Aloia (Deputy Principal) on 3819 5333. 

Janet Ingram