Overview
Surat Multi-purpose Health Service (MPHS) is located in the South West Hospital and Health Service (SWHHS). It is located approximately 443 kilometres west of Brisbane and 78 kilometres from Roma in the Maranoa planning region.
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
- Community nurse
Visiting Specialist and Outreach
- Physiotherapy
- Recreational officer
- Occupational therapy
- Speech therapy
- Social work
- Podiatry
- Dietetics and nutrition
- 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
Surat MPHS has:
General Practitioners
The Surat Medical Practice provides locum GP on a two week rotation. The practice has the ability to employ a medical superintendent with the right to private practice, however has been unable to fill the position for the last two years.
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 Maranoa (which includes Roma) planning region was 13,862 people. As at 2011, the town of Surat has an approximate population of 426.
The estimated Indigenous population of the Maranoa planning region was 1190 persons or 8.6 per cent of the Maranoa population.
Address
2 Ivan St,
Surat QLD 4417
PO Box 2,
Surat, QLD, 4417
Phone
+61 7 4626 5166
Fax
+61 7 4626 5177
Office Hours
0800 – 1630