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Our fees are increasing..

Dunedin City GP will be increasing fees for patients, effective from the 3rd of January  2025.The change does not include standard consultations for children under 14 years who remain free, or patients who hold Community Service Cards.In doing this, we are joining most other clinics in the country, as healthcare continues to be desperately underfunded by Health New Zealand (Te Whatu Ora), while the cost of running our clinic continues to rise. Rather than increasing our funding the governme...

Dunedin Skin and Surgery Clinic

One of our doctors, Dr Niranjan Sharma, is offering a comprehensive range of minor surgery and skin services, through his Dunedin Skin and Surgery Clinic.  This private service is available to anyone (you do not have to be a Dunedin City GP patient).  Check out his website to learn more - or contact our reception team for more information.  ...

Good news about our wait times!

Due to another doctor joining our practice recently, we can now offer our patients same day or next day appointments (even for non-urgent matters).  ...

Introducing Dr Niranjan Sharma

Dunedin City GP welcomes our third doctor to our busy practice, Dr Niranjan Sharma.  Dr Sharma originally comes from Nepal but has also spent time in Japan, training and working in advanced surgery (gastrointestinal and organ transplants) before moving to New Zealand to become a General Practitioner.  He is now an accredited GP with Special Interest in Skin (known as a GPSI Doctor).   As well as English, he is fluent in Nepali, Japanese and Hindi.   You can read a bit more ab...

Our new after-hours urgent care service.

Patients enrolled with Dunedin City GP can now access their own after hours urgent care service.  For urgent matters only, please call 022 355 4178.  Your call will be returned within a couple of hours, by one of our doctors.  There is a surcharge for a phone/virtual ($30) or face-to-face ($60) consultation.   The service operates from 5:30pm - 10pm weekdays and from 8am - 10pm on weekends.  Patients can still use the Urgent Doctors Service in Filleul Street but there wi...

Our award-winning nursing team!

Dunedin City GP is very proud of our nursing team that recently were recipients of two nursing awards (Southern Nursing Excellence Awards 2023).  They both won in their nominated categories.Tamsin received the Patient Safety Award for her commitment to building a culture of safety - championing patient, as well as, workplace safety.  Sunju received the Rising Star Award for showing promise in becoming an exceptional member of the nursing profession.  She has already made significa...

We are now accepting new patients once again!

We are fortunate to have some more staff joining us so we can now welcome new patients again.  Our waiting times to see a doctor are usually up to 2-3 days.  ...

No new enrolments accepted currently.

Due to rapid patient expansion, we have had to close our books temporarily to all new patient enrolments.  We hope to be able to accept new patients again, in a few months' time.  Please check back then.  Thank you for visiting our website.  ...

New staff

Our practice has been rapidly expanding.  We have recently added more doctors and soon, more administration staff.  We are still accepting new enrolments and our wait times to see a doctor or nurse are still very good.   ...

Introducing..

It has been a very busy time at Dunedin City GP!  We have been welcoming and enrolling many new patients to our practice recently so it's great to have another doctor to join us.  Dr Keong Hoh, originally comes from Malaysia, and is excited to be starting at Dunedin City GP.  You can read more about him on our website.  Dr Hoh looks forward to welcoming new and casual patients.  ...

Welcome to all

Patients previously registered with Dr Alan Walker (now retired) and now with Dr Adrian Hindes will notice a few new changes.  Most noticeably is the new reception area.  Patients can now go straight down the driveway (instead of negotiating the previous long walk through corridors) - and into our new reception area.  Faola, our receptionist, will welcome you in to the practice.  The second change is our name - we have decided to seperate from Pitt Street Medical (to keep thi...