This bulk-billing medical centre has been on the forefront for community health, and they\u2019re expanding their second business.<\/p>\n
First Point Health Care opened their medical centre in the Launceston suburb of Newstead in February 2025 and also operate award-winning \ufeffBeaconsfield Family Medical Practice.<\/p>\n
After not even a year of operating, they plan to expand the business to the building next door to extend the medical centre and open a pharmacy.<\/p>\n
General practitioner Dr Prashanth Reddy runs both facilities, and said he had built his businesses on accessible health care.<\/p>\n
\u201cHealthcare should never be a luxury,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery person \u2013 regardless of background, income, or postcode \u2013 deserves access to high-quality care.\u201d<\/p>\n
Even with the smaller facility, Newstead has 2000 patients since opening. <\/p>\n
The development, off Belhaven Crescent, will double the medical hub space.<\/p>\n
The existing area is 1306 sq\/m and the proposed medical centre is 1771 sq\/m.<\/p>\n
It will add three more offices, six additional consulting rooms and a pathology space, according to the plans submitted.<\/p>\n
There will be a total of 14 consulting rooms for the Newstead medical hub.<\/p>\n
A new waiting room will also be included in the extension.<\/p>\n
Parking issues have been flagged, but the document noted, it was would be \u201crare\u201d for all GPs to be working at the same time and a GP hub experienced a \u201chigh turnover\u201d of visitors and car parks would open up more frequently.<\/p>\n
There are 31 parks on site, and 48 are required. <\/p>\n
There are also 13 on-street car parks around the site. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This bulk-billing medical centre has been on the forefront for community health, and they\u2019re expanding their second business.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[234722,64,63,135336,234727,60117,137,5266,500,234726,234721,44376,234717,234716,234719,234714,234723,234724,234715,234720,234713,234725,234718],"class_list":["post-455142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-ambitious-expansion-plans","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-car-parks","tag-consulting-rooms","tag-expansion-plans","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-helen-polley","tag-hub-expansion-plans","tag-medical-centre","tag-medical-centre-back","tag-medical-hub","tag-medical-hub-expansion","tag-medical-hub-space","tag-on-street-car-parks","tag-pathology-space","tag-pharmacy-plans","tag-point-health","tag-point-health-team","tag-popular-medical-hub","tag-prashanth-reddy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}