Personalised General Practice & Holistic Health
Right Medicine, Right Person, Right Time
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Caring for families Since 2005
Blue Shield Family General Practice is an accredited teaching practice through RACGP. Full time and part time GP registrars are part of our team.
We aim to provide personalised care with a holistic approach. We have special interests in prevention, herbal and drug interactions, women’s health, and children’s well-being.
We operate on appointment basis Monday to Friday and provide afterhours care if requested. We always prioritise urgent medical cases and try to accommodate our patient’s need to the best of our knowledge and abilities. In our practice a Registered Nurse is employed to triage patients who present by appointment or on walk in basis, facilitating preventative care, provided patient permission is granted. We are located opposite St George hospital Kensington Street Entrance. The Emergency Department is located on Gray Street.
Public parking is available on Derby Street.
Our mission is to provide the highest standard of patient care whilst incorporating a holistic approach towards diagnosis and management of illness.
We are committed to promoting health, wellbeing and disease prevention to patients. We do not discriminate in the provision of excellent care and aim to treat all patients with dignity and respect.
We specialise in the following health services
Check-ups
Disease Prevention
Herbal Medicine
Immunisations
Iron Infusion
Children’s Health
Drug Interactions
Women’s Health
Travel Vaccines Yellow fever accredited practice
Medicinal Cannabis
In-House Pathology
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Speech Pathology Services
Academic Associations with
Meet our Team
Dr Ata Kichkin
General Practitioner
Dr Atanaska Kichkin (MBBS University of New South Wales 1995, MD Medical Academy Bulgaria 1985) is a Fellow of RACGP (Royal Australian College of General Practitioners), who completed her fellowship degree through the Royal College of General Practitioners in 2002.Dr Kichkin facilitates a holistic, personalised approach to patient care and is well-known for her patient-centred, family-orientated expertise within the ST George Area of Sydney for the last 23 years.
Dr Kichkin is a well-established educator within her field and actively supervises accredited General Practitioner registrars and Medical Students undertaking their studies at Sydney University.
Dr Kichkin Values continuous professional development and has completed a number of post graduate courses, which include early management of severe trauma (Royal Australian College of Surgeons 2001), herbal and nutritional medicine (Swinburne University Melbourne). Dr kichkin engages in the latest professional research and education through courses offered by the Royal Australia College of General Practitioners.
Dr Kichkin Participates in Antenatal shared Care Programme and is a Yellow Fever immunisation Provider.
Dr Vandana Pala
General Practitioner
Juliana Kichkin
Speech Pathology Services
Juliana is a certified practicing Adult and Paediatric Speech Pathologist with strong
interpersonal skills. She is a current practicing member of Speech Pathology Australia. She has
a passion for holistic, evidence based practice to empower you and your family to achieve your
goals.
She has experience working with adults, children and teenagers and has consistently achieved
outcomes for her clients in a variety of settings (multi-disciplinary, private practice and public
settings).
Her special interests include helping adults and children with strengths-focused practice to
support participation in the community, school and higher education.
She is certified and trained in Lee Silverman Voice Therapy, which is a voice treatment for
adults with Parkinson’s and other neurological conditions.
She currently offers face to face therapy services, conveniently located in Kogarah as well as
teletherapy services to suit your schedule.
Registered Nurse
Registered Nurse
Our nurse is an experienced general practice nurse with exceptional caring and professional attitude.
Fee and Appointment
The Surgery operates on an appointment based system. Walk-in presentation can be seen too, please contact our friendly Administrative Staff for further advice
All consultations are mixed billing of all consults.