Medical Weight Loss Consultations
The treatment of metabolic issues like insulin resistance and being overweight/obesity has changed significantly in the last few years. Injectable weight loss medications are commonly prescribed by online doctors and services that never meet you, don’t assess your metabolic health and offer poor qualuty little quality lifestyle medicine.
As with all things in medicine, the “script” is just a small part of the consultation.
What’s really important for long term meaningful weight loss and health is thorough consultation, including history, examination, investigation and discussion of your goals, current and past lifestyle, family history and cardiovascular risk. It’s also important to offer you counselling about how and what you eat- no magic pill or injection is going to rewire your brain or change you eating habits. Long term monitoring and he ability to check in if things aren’t on track is also important.
That’s exactly what Thrive offers- an evidence based multidisciplinary service to assist men and women who are overweight. This involves addressing lifestyle, nutritional, psychological and movement habits, as well as consideration of the need for further metabolic and cardiovascular screening such as blood tests, genetic tests and cardiac screening.
Our clinic follows solid medicine principles and works alongside experienced naturopaths, diabetes educators, dieticians, psychologists and health coaches to empower our patients to make long term lifestyle changes and embrace positive habits to improve current health and prevent future disease.
This includes consideration of evidence based medications as needed. Both Dr Grant and Dr Jonker are Fellows of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (FRACGP) and keep up to date with the latest international metabolic guidelines.
Costs
Initial Consultation:
Weight Loss: 40 minutes, $315 Medicare rebate: $122.15. Gap Fee $192.85
This consultation must be done in person if you would like a medicare rebate. Alternatively, you can do the consultation privately via telehealth with no medicare rebate.
Followup Consultation: 10 20 minutes $210
(Medicare Rebate $82.90. Gap Fee $ 127.10) - this can be done in clinic or via telehealth. Book this for your 1 month or 3 month review. Please complete paperwork prior to consultation.
Brief Followup 10 minutes $105
Medicare Rebate $42.85. Gap Fee $62.15
This is only done via telehealth for folllow up or brief check in e.g blood test results or repeat script once you are stable on your medication.
Please note: You must prepay for your appointment, the deposit is not refundable but can be transferred to another day. Thrive Skin Clinic is a private clinic- we do not bulk bill. Our doctors do not offer routine General Practice consultations, GP Mental Health Plans or GP Management Plans. Please see your normal GP for these concerns.
Location of appointment: All medical appointments are now located at Sanctuary by Thrive, 5 Tannery Street, Unanderra.
To Make a Booking: You can book your consultation any time online. Please email info@thriveskinclinic.com.au or call 02 4272 5070 if you need further help.
What to Do Before your Appointment: Consider tracking your diet and lifestyle on a NORMAL day for 3 days using an app called My Fitness Pal. Bring any recent bloods test with you. If you think you are in perimenopause, the Balance- Menopause App, can be really helpful and emailed or printed out to use at your appointment.
Deposits: A non refundable deposit is required prior to booking a consultation. If you are unwell or cannot attend, a telehealth consultation can be arranged at the time of your booked appointment. Please see our clinic Terms & Conditions including cancellation policy here.
Add on Consultations: Aesthetic Consultations or Skin treatments can be done during the same visit as your medical consultation- please tell us if you would like to arrange this and we will allocate extra time to your consultation. Please note, no medicare rebates apply to aesthetic consultations.
