SERVING A COMMUNITY NEED
With a growing (and ageing) population, there is a need for more local health infrastructure. The Casuarina Specialist Centre will offer comprehensive, high-quality health services from the one convenient location:
The proposed “health ecosystem” will reduce patient requirements to travel between different locations (and often across the border) for different services.
Increased clinician collaboration and less patient travel is intended to minimise stress and enhance experiences and health outcomes.
People in this community are likely to need our services at some point:
1 in 9 Australians have asthma (approximately 2.8 million individuals) but only 1 in 3 have an Asthma Action Plan for effective management
(Source: Asthma Australia, 2024)
In 2011-12, an estimated 11% of people (1.7 million Australians) aged 18 and over had biomedical signs of Chronic Kidney Disease
(Source: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2024)
2 in 5 will have a cancer diagnosis of some sort by age 85
(Source: Cancer Australia, Aust Government, 2022)
A COLLECTIVE OF COMMITTED LOCAL SPECIALISTS
This is a doctor-driven project. The aim is to meet community need by collaborating to achieve better patient outcomes.
Cutting-edge specialist health care is minimally available in the Northern Rivers outside of the already stretched Tweed Valley or John Flynn Hospitals. Our proposed comprehensive Specialist Centre aims to change that by offering our combined services under the one roof.
The Australian Charter of Healthcare Rights (the Charter) explains that all Australians have a right to: Access, Safety, Respect, Partnership, Information, Privacy, and to give Feedback – The Casuarina Specialist Centre aims to uphold these rights.
“We are local doctors committed to delivering high quality patient care to locals. This is an important moment for the region’s health— everyone is likely to be impacted by the services we can provide at some point.”
Dr. Mark Flower
Medical Oncologist, MBBS, FRACP, BEng (Hons)