1 March 2021 Alert level 3: Hobsonville Family Doctors update

As of 6:00am Sunday 28 February, Auckland moved to Alert Level 3 and the rest of New Zealand moved to Alert Level 2. Our priority is your health and we will continue to provide medical care with most appointments being delivered by phone or video consultation. Our team will decide if you need to be seen in the clinic and arrange this if required.

Routine vaccination appointments will continue as planned.

Our clinic requires that all patients wear a mask on the premises during level 3 regardless of symptoms, young children are exempt. This is to protect the health and safety of our staff and other people in the clinic.

If you are unwell with COVID-19 symptoms including a fever, cough, runny nose or sore throat please stay at home.

Our team performs COVID-19 swabs in the carpark between 12-1pm. Please contact our reception if you would like to book a test for you or a family member. This service is free.

If you need a repeat prescription, please leave a phone message or fill out our Nurse Contact form. All scripts will now be faxed to your pharmacy of choice, so please specify this in your message. If you have more than 2 weeks supply of medication, please only request a repeat of your medications when you are in your final 2 weeks of supply. We will continue to keep our website updated as the situation changes.

14 February 2021 Alert level 3: Hobsonville Family Doctors update

As of 11:59pm, Sunday 14 February, Auckland will move to Alert Level 3 and the rest of New Zealand will move to Alert Level 2 until 12 midnight, Wednesday 17 February. We are expecting very high call volumes tomorrow (Monday), so please keep this in mind and use our Contact form for non-urgent messages. Monday morning we will be contacting patients with existing appointments to switch to phone or video consultations if it is safe to do so. Routine vaccination appointments will continue as planned.

Our clinic requires that all patients wear a mask on the premises during level 3 regardless of symptoms, young children are exempt. This is to protect the health and safety of our staff and other people in the clinic.

If you are unwell with COVID-19 symptoms including a fever, cough, runny nose or sore throat please stay at home.

Our team performs COVID-19 swabs in the carpark between 12-1pm. Please contact our reception if you would like to book a test for you or a family member. This service is free.

If you need a repeat prescription, please leave a phone message or fill out our Nurse Contact form. All scripts will now be faxed to your pharmacy of choice, so please specify this in your message. If you have more than 2 weeks supply of medication, please only request a repeat of your medications when you are in your final 2 weeks of supply. We will continue to keep our website updated as the situation changes.

Medsafe forms for Amyl Nitrite (Poppers)

Dr Torrance Merkle is doing consultations for signing off of forms from Medsafe for the importation of amyl nitrite / isopropyl nitrite (poppers). He will only sign off a maximum of 6x bottles per script (3 months supply).

If you import more than this quantity, this will be considered as more than a 3 month supply, and will need to be physically collected from us at monthly or 3 monthly intervals.

Please email a scanned copy of your Medsafe forms to admin@hfd.co.nz before your appointment. Please also have your Driver's Licence or Passport handy during your consult, so he can confirm your identity.

For clarity - Medsafe will only send you these forms if they intercept medications (including amyl / poppers) at the border.

If you would like a consultation to discuss getting a prescription to attach to an overseas order, please book a video or in-person consult with Torrance.