Overview
The Dirranbandi Multi-Purpose Health Service (MPHS) is located in the South West Hospital and Health Service (SWHHS). The MPHS is located approximately kilometres west of Brisbane and 222 kilometres from Charleville in the Far South West planning regions.
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
Dirranbandi MPHS has:
General Practitioners
Employs a medical superintendent with the right to private practice at the Dirranbandi Medical Practice, which is co-located on-site and run by SWHHS.
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. The town of Dirranbandi has an approximate population
of 800.
The estimated Indigenous population of the Balonne planning region was 984 persons or 20 per cent of the Balonne population.
Address
Corner of Jane and Crothers Streets,
Dirranbandi, QLD, 4486
PO Box 20,
Dirranbandi, QLD, 4486
Phone
+61 7 4625 8222
Fax
+61 7 4625 8273
Office Hours
0800 – 1700