FREE doctors’ visits and prescriptions will be extended to all children aged under 13 from 1 July 2015. Previously free doctors' visits and prescriptions were only available to children aged under 6. From 1 July Kaipara Medical Centre is pleased to extend this great new government initiative to both our existing patients and also to new patients who may not yet have enrolled with us. For more i [...]

Check out the Kaipara Medical Team in all their muddy glory at the recent Tough Guy + Gal Challenge at Woodhill Sands in June 2014.

With the change in seasons, asthma and COPD (emphysema) sufferers may notice that they become more wheezy and breathless - and are having to use their inhalers more.

Dr Philip Barter offers advice on what to do when you child has a fever.