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Please review our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page on this site, prior to booking an appointment or phoning our clinic. We may have the answer you need.
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Making an appointment
Inverloch Healthcare offers a flexible appointment system to allow us to care for a range of urgent, non-urgent, complex and health maintenance needs.
Appointments can be made online via our website, by phone or in person. We offer face to face consultations in our rooms as well as telephone or video appointments.
We are committed to continuity of care and where possible will offer you an appointment with the GP of your choice. If this is not possible our staff will recommend an alternative GP.
Our standard appointments are 10-15 minutes and in this time we can usually deal with one to two issues.
If you feel you may require a longer appointment please let us know at the time of booking.
If you require an urgent appointment, please let our reception staff know and you will be directed to our practice nurse.
New Patients
We are currently accepting new accepting new patients.
Prior to your appointment we would request you complete our new patient registration form and new patient health information form.
Please download and complete prior to attending or please attend five minutes early for your appointment and reception will provide you will a copy to complete.
For the safety of all our staff, doctors and patients please do not enter the clinic if you have any respiratory symptoms including fever, cough, sore throat, shortness of breath or you are waiting for the results of a covid test. While attending the clinic you are no longer required to wear a face mask but may do so if you feel more comfortable. Anyone with respiratory symptoms seen in the clinic will be asked to wear a mask.
All the GPs at Inverloch Healthcare are Independent Health Practitioners, this means that Inverloch Healthcare provides administrative support and facilities to them to ensure they can do what they do best… look after you and your healthcare needs. Each GP effectively runs their own business and Inverloch Healthcare supports them to do so. As part of upholding the highest professional standards, GPs will collaborate on your care.
Meet the doctors
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Dr Sinead de Gooyer
MBBS, FRACGP, DRANZCOG
Independent Health Practitioner
Sinead graduated from Monash University in 1999 and has been working in rural communities since completing GP training. She enjoys the breadth of her general practice work and has a particular interest in adolescent, womens’ and mental health issues.
Outside her clinic work Sinead is current board member of the Melbourne based charity the Piano Project. She was a director and past Chair of Gippsland PHN and has held board positions in both the health and dairy sectors. Sinead lives locally with her family and an assortment of pets.
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Dr Sarah Smith
BAppSc (Hons), MBBS, FRACGP
Independent Health Practitioner
Sarah grew up in East Gippsland and after some years as a research scientist she decided to swap the microscope for people and retrained in medicine, completing her MBBS in 2010 from the University of Melbourne. She undertook her GP training in the Northern Territory and has spent the last two years working as a solo GP in a remote community in Central Australia, returning to Gippsland in 2018 to have her second child.
Sarah has particular interest in paediatrics and chronic disease but enjoys all aspects of rural general practice. She lives in Inverloch with her husband, two young boys and a disobedient labrador named Louis.
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Dr Roz Giles
MBBS, FRACGP, DRANZCOG
Independent Health Practitioner
Roz completed her medical studies at the University of Melbourne in 1991 and after completing her GP training moved to South Gippsland. She has been working in both Leongatha and Inverloch since 1995. Roz takes a holistic approach to health care with a particular interest in preventive health. Other special interest areas are older people, chronic disease management and palliative care.
Roz is married with three children and outside of work enjoys walking, bike riding and gardening.
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Dr Martin Hodgson
MBBS, GradDipOccH, DipDHM
Independent Health Practitioner
Martin is a well-informed and experienced doctor with a long and varied career. This started with time in the Royal Australian Navy, where he became an Underwater Medicine Specialist. For twenty years he was involved in problem wound management and hyperbaric medicine. He has maintained an interest in sports medicine, has mental health training, awareness of men’s health issues and good rapport with children. He has a Graduate Diploma in Occupational Health and can perform diving medicals and employment medicals.
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Dr Katia Almeida
FRACGP
Independent Health Practitioner
Katia is an experienced General Practitioner with an interest in Lifestyle Medicine, who takes a comprehensive, approach to provide deeply personalized care.
Backed by extensive international experience in paediatrics, she has an interest in women’s health—guiding patients from early adolescence through post-menopause.
She is a GP who combines thorough health assessments and chronic disease management with a strong emphasis on nutrition, exercise, and mental well-being, balancing necessary medication with lifestyle modifications to help her patients thrive at every stage of life.
Katia is joining the clinic as a locum for the next six months.
Outside of the clinic she has a passion for nutrition, strength training, yoga, and walking trails.
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Dr Sue Comerford
BCOM, MBBS, FRACGP
Dr Sue Comerford is well known to the Inverloch Healthcare community. She has returned to help the team out in a locum capacity over the next few months to cover GP leave.
Sue will not be taking on regular patients rather helping to ensure clinic patients can be seen in a timely manner as required.