Doctors in Secondary Schools 

Our school, Melton Secondary College was successful in being selected to participate in the Victorian Government’s Doctors in Secondary Schools program.

What is Doctors in Schools?

The $43.8 million Doctors in Secondary Schools initiative is delivering on the election commitment to fund general practitioners (GPs) to attend up to 100 Victorian government secondary schools up to one day a week to provide medical advice and health care to those students most in need.

The objectives of the program are to:

• make primary health care more accessible to students
• provide assistance to young people to identify and address any health problems early
• aim to reduce the pressure on working parents and community-based GPs.

The program will make a valuable contribution to achieving the Education State targets of 'happy, healthy and resilient kids' by improving ease of access to health services for young people.

How will the program work?

Melton Secondary College will work with Westcare Medical Centre to enable primary health care services to be delivered on our school premises. A GP and nurse will attend the school each Thursday to assist students to identify and address any health problems early.

All secondary school students who are enrolled in the participating Victorian Government secondary school will be able to access the GP, subject to providing the requisite consent for the services.

The participating Victorian Government Secondary Schools, students and their parents/guardians/carers will not incur any out-of-pocket expenses for consultations with the GP on the school premises.

Further information can be found through the following link or by contacting the Doctors in Secondary Schools Program Lead Stacey James at the college.

http://www.education.vic.gov.au/about/programs/health/pages/doctors-secondary-schools.aspx