Overview
Mungindi is located on the border of New South Wales and Darling Downs HHS approximately 505 kilometres west of Brisbane and 118 kilometres south of St George in the planning region of Balonne. Mungindi Multi-Purpose Health Service (MPHS) is located on the Queensland side in the South West Hospital and Health Service (SWHHS).
Distance to main referring Hospitals
Services
- Accident & Emergency
- General ward
- Outpatients
- X-ray
- Pharmacy (hospital use only)
- Wound management
- Flexible care places for long-term care
- Telehealth
- General Medical practice
- Palliative care
Visiting Specialist
- Physiotherapy
- Occupational therapy
- Speech therapy
- Social work
- Podiatry
- Dietetics and nutrition
- Dentistry
- Diabetes education
- Early intervention parenting program
- Mental health
- Immunisation clinics
- Child health
- Women’s health
- Aged care assessment
- Drug and alcohol services
- Indigenous health
- Health promotion/prevention
Home and Community Care (HACC)
- Frail aged
- People with disabilities and carers
Bed Numbers
Mungindi MPHS has:
General Practitioners
Employs a medical superintendent with the right to private practice at the Mungindi Medical Practice, which is co-located on-site and privately-operated.
Catchment population
The primary catchment for South West consists of the planning regions :
- Balonne
- Murweh
- Far South West
- Maranoa
In 2014, the estimated resident population for the catchment of Balonne planning region was 4888 people. At the 2011 Census, the town of Mungindi has an approximate population of 738 on the New South Wales side and 382 on the Queensland side.
The estimated Indigenous population of the Balonne planning region was 984 persons or 20 per cent of Balonne population.
Address
90 Barwon St, Mungindi QLD 2406
Phone
+61 2 6705 6100
Fax
+61 2 6705 6190
Office Hours
0830 – 1700