Primary Health Care clinics – Dispensing licence

Primary healthcare is the provision of health services, including diagnosis and treatment of a health condition, and support in managing long-term healthcare, including chronic conditions like diabetes.

Primary healthcare includes seeing health professionals help you maintain good health, with regular health checks, health advice when you have concerns, and support for ongoing care.

Services delivered by primary healthcare providers include:

• diagnosis, treatment, and care of people with health problems
• promoting good health
• preventing health problems
• early intervention
• managing ongoing and long-term conditions.

Healthcare services play an important role in advising and helping you to prevent illness and maintain good health.

Important areas that you should seek advice on include:

• managing and stopping smoking
• hazardous drinking
• stress and depression
• poor diet and
• physical inactivity.

On-site clinics offer various advantages to employer’s incl. but not limited to:

Health risk assessments can be conducted every 2 years based on the company’s environmental
survey.

Medical surveillance based on risk profiles can be done on-site within the scope of clinic equipment. Trend analysis based on statistics (monthly report) in the form of a monthly report provided to management.

On-site counselling and referral services for abnormal cases to our Occupational health medical practitioner. Assist with primary health care medication, as well as chronic medication provided on-site. We will follow up on chronic illness’s picked up in the medical examination.

Lower health care costs by reducing unnecessary emergency care visits, by providing health care to all injuries being reported to the clinic, when on-site. Assist in all LTA & fatality investigations.

Assist with the management of disability cases. Wellness promotions can be provided by our marketing department as part of wellness days on-site.

Advantages to employees:

• On-site medication
• Monitoring of chronic illnesses
• Consultations with nurses and doctors on-site obtaining “instant” healthcare services.