Griffith University

STUDENT SERVICES

What can we help you find?

    Health services

    Griffith offers two types of health services.

    Health and Medical Services provides general healthcare for Griffith students and staff, while Griffith Health Clinics offer specialised assessment and treatment services through teaching clinics that are open to the public.
    Explore the options below to find the service that's right for you.

    Services

    If you need to see a doctor, get a prescription, discuss a physical or mental health concern, access vaccinations, or receive ongoing healthcare support, our Health and Medical Services can help.

    We can also connect you with specialist services when needed.

    Our services include:

    • doctor appointments and general health consultations
    • mental health support and Mental Health Treatment Plans
    • psychologist appointments
    • prescriptions and specialist referrals
    • vaccinations and pre-placement requirements
    • sexual and reproductive health
    • preventative care
    • travel medicine and vaccinations
    • minor injuries and wound care
    • chronic condition management
    • skin checks
    • Implanon and IUD insertion and removal
    • iron infusions
    • dietetics.

    Contact Health and Medical Services or book an appointment

    Griffith Health Clinics provide specialised assessment and treatment services for the wider community.

    Open to the public, these teaching clinics offer affordable healthcare across a range of disciplines.

    Patients receive high-quality care while helping Griffith students gain valuable clinical experience under professional supervision.

    Griffith Health Clinics include:

    • dentistry
    • dietetics
    • physiotherapy
    • speech pathology
    • social work
    • gut health
    • exercise physiology.

    Please check which service you need before booking, as each service has its own appointment process and contact details.

    Explore Griffith Health Clinics or book an appointment

    New to healthcare in Australia?

    If you're unfamiliar with the Australian healthcare system, a General Practitioner (GP) or doctor is usually the first person to see for most health concerns. They can assess your needs, provide treatment and refer you to specialist services when needed. Contact Health and Medical Services to book an appointment.

    Are you a new student? Do you need vaccines and serology for your degree?

    Book an appointment with the nurse to discuss mandatory vaccine and serology requirements for your degree. All initial course immunisations must be seen by the nurse in the first instance, who will then organise an appointment with the doctor.

    Preplacement screening and vaccinations
    Flu Vaccinations

    Influenza vaccinations

    The annual influenza vaccination continues to be the most important measure to prevent influenza and its complications. Influenza vaccinations are available from Health and Medical Services at Gold Coast and Brisbane South (Nathan). Please contact your preferred location to book an appointment.

    Contact us

    Alcohol and drug support

    Drug and alcohol support

    Dealing with alcohol and drug concerns on your own can be difficult. The Australian Government provides assistive services and treatment options via Alcohol and Drug Information and Support Services (ADIS), including online self-assessment tools and 24/7 phone support.

    Visit the ADIS site

    Sun Safety

    Sun safety

    It's important to slip, slop, slap all year round in Queensland, but now that summer is upon us, the need for caution is even higher. Check out all the ways you can be sun smart if you're going to the beach or staying outdoors for long stretches of time.

    Sexual Health

    Sexual health

    Sexually transmissible infections (STIs) are common and increasing in Australia, including Queensland.

    Keep yourself safe, healthy and sexy with regular testing, protection and correct sexual health information.

    Griffith offers sexual and reproductive health-care services including information, education and treatment through our service.

    Contact Health and Medical Services

    Stop the rise of STIs

    3 Good health and well-being

    Sustainable Development Goals

    Griffith University is aligned with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals ( SDGs ) and is committed to tackling global challenges around good health.

    Online Health and Wellness Centre

    Griffith's Online Health and Wellness Centre is a portal designed to increase student awareness and understanding of mental health concerns. Here you can learn tips for promoting better health and wellbeing such as living a healthy lifestyle, engaging in meaningful social activity, feeling safe, stable and secure, and looking after your mental wellness.

    Visit the Online Health and Wellness Centre

    Frequently asked questions

    Explanation

    You can book an appointment online using the HotDoc app, face to face or phone Health and Medical Services on 3735 7299 (Nathan) or 5552 8734 (Gold Coast).

    Alternatively, you can drop in to see us in G33 (Student Centre Building, Gold Coast) or N12 (Sewell Building, Nathan) and we will fit you in as soon as we can or help you manage an urgent matter on the spot.

    Explanation

    A home visit can be performed by Hello Home Doctor Service after hours. You can contact them via phone on 134 100.

    Please note that if you are a Medicare or Allianz OSHC holder, the service cost will be bulk-billed or directly billed to Allianz OSHC. 

    Explanation

    Yes, Health and Medical Services does both. Please note that there may be a charge payable by you depending upon the reason for the vaccination, however, you will be advised prior to committing to the vaccination.

    Explanation

    The Health and Medical Service provides a range of medical and ancillary services for Griffith students and staff.

    Your privacy

    Personal information

    This Privacy Policy explains how the University’s Health and Medical Services collects, uses, stores and manages your personal information, including your health information. It also outlines the circumstances in which your information may be disclosed to third parties and the safeguards in place to protect your privacy. 

    This Privacy Policy does not cover the privacy practices of the University as a whole. Please refer to the University’s Privacy Statement for more information about how the University handles personal information.

    Privacy Policy: Learn more about how we handle your information

    How do I provide consent?

    When you register as a patient of our practice, you provide consent for our health practitioners and practice staff to collect, access and use your personal information so they can provide you with the best possible healthcare. Only staff who need to see your personal information will have access to it. If we need to use your information for a purpose other than as considered by this policy, we will seek additional consent from you to do this.

    What personal information do you collect?

    The information we will collect about you includes:

    • name, date of birth, ID numbers, next of kin, addresses, email address and telephone numbers
    • medical history, medications, allergies, adverse events, immunisations, social history, cultural background, family history, test results, clinical digital images, referral details and risk factors
    • Medicare number or Overseas Student Health Cover (OSHC) policy number (where available) for identification and claiming purposes
    • healthcare identifiers
    • health fund details.

    What is a medical record?

    Medical records refers to all documents including without limitation treatment notes, charts, forms, films, computer records, reports and results created or received by health practitioners or the Health and Medical Service in relation to a patient who has received medical services within the Health and Medical Service.

    Why do you collect, use, hold and share personal information?

    Patient care

    We collect, maintain, use and disclose personal information about you in order to assist us to provide you with appropriate care, treatment and services. Your personal information is used by us:

    • to provide you with medical care and services;
    • to provide you and/or a nominated third party with information that may assist you in managing and improving your health;
    • and as a medical history for you that allows us to provide you with better care as it assists with identifying changes to your health over time.

    Operating our business

    We use your personal information as necessary to manage our administration, including storage of data, and management of accounts and payment for the services provided to you. Specifically, we will use and, where necessary, disclose your personal information:

    • to obtain payment from, as appropriate, Medicare Australia, you, your private health insurance fund or from any organisation responsible for payment of any part of your account, such as the Department of Veterans Affairs;
    • if the circumstances require, we may disclose your personal information to our insurers or those of our practitioners;
    • to manage and store your personal information in a secure fashion (via our on-premise software),
    • for data entry and data analytics purposes; and

    We may use your personal information to communicate with you, including to:

    • respond to your online enquiries or process requests for appointments;
    • advertise to you particular products and services that may be of interest to you; and
    • send you appointment reminders (including by SMS or email) in relation to obtaining services from our practice. This enables us to contact you, for example, to make follow-up appointments to discuss test results, or to remind you that you, or a dependant, are due for an immunisation, cervical screening, annual health assessment or other type of consultation or test.

    Teaching and research

    We may use your personal information for internal teaching purposes or to monitor, evaluate, plan and improve the services provided at our practices. We will only use de-identified information (information that does not contain any personal details that may reasonably identify you) for these purposes. purposes.

    Other disclosures

    We may be required by law to disclose your personal information without your consent.

    You have the right to deal with us anonymously or under a pseudonym unless it is impracticable for us to do so or unless we are required or authorised by law to only deal with identified individuals. Please note that all Medicare and OSHC claims need to be made using your correct details. Should you choose to visit the practice under a pseudonym, rebates may not apply.

    Please note that all Medicare and OSHC claims need to be made using your correct details. Should you choose to visit the practice under a pseudonym, rebates may not apply.

    We collect personal information about you in several ways, including: from you directly; from someone who has responsibility for you (your parent, carer or guardian); information collected by an employee of our practice, such as a receptionist or nurse; from external health providers who provide information to our practice and that information is placed on your record; and information collected through websites in the form of online enquiries or requests for appointments made by you. When you attend our practice to obtain services from our practitioners or nurses, we create a unique digital medical record for you. Every time a medical service is provided for you, new information is added to your medical record.

    Cookies

    When you visit our website, a small data file called a “cookie” is stored on your computer or mobile device by our server. Cookies can only store information that is explicitly provided by the visitor in the first place, or information that the website already has about the user, such as their IP address. We use cookies to maintain user sessions and to generate statistics about the number of people that visit our websites. Generally, this information will not identify you and we do not link it back to your identity or other information that you have provided to us.

    Who do you share personal information with?

    We sometimes share your personal information:

    • with third parties who work with our practice for business purposes, such as accreditation agencies or information technology providers—these third parties are required to comply with Information Privacy Act
    • with other healthcare providers when we are required or authorised by law (e.g. court subpoenas)
    • when it is necessary to lessen or prevent a serious threat to a patient’s life, health or safety, a third party’s life, health or safety or public health or safety
    • to assist in locating a missing person
    • to establish, exercise or defend a legal claim
    • for the purpose of confidential dispute resolution process
    • when there is a statutory requirement to share certain personal information (e.g. some diseases require mandatory notification)
    • during the course of providing medical services, through Electronic Transfer of Prescriptions, My Health Record (eg via Shared Health Summary, Event Summary).

    Only people that need to access your information will be able to do so. Other than while providing medical services or as otherwise described in this policy, our service will not share personal information with any third party without your consent.

    We will not share your personal information with anyone outside Australia (unless under exceptional circumstances that are permitted by law) without your consent.

    Our practice will not use your personal information for marketing any of our goods or services directly to you without your express consent. If you do consent, you may opt-out of direct marketing at any time by notifying our practice in writing.

    We may provide de-identified data to other organisations to improve population health outcomes. The information is secure, patients cannot be identified and the information is stored within Australia.

    How do you store and protect personal information?

    Your personal information may be stored at our practice in various forms including: electronic records, paper-based records and as visual records (X-rays, CT Scans, videos and photos).

    We take reasonable steps, and implement reasonable safeguards, to ensure the protection of the personal information that we hold. Our practice stores all personal information securely. The Health and Medical Service is operated on a secure network maintained by firewalls, within a secure Griffith University framework.

    All staff require an individual username and password to access the University network, and a username and passwords are required to access any Health and Medical Services software. Passwords are changed regularly to restrict access to the network.

    All paper records are secured in locked filing cabinets and drawers. The keys are securely stored and can only be accessed by staff.

    As the Health and Medical Service is part of the University, we are bound by the applicable Queensland State Archives disposal and retention schedules, regarding how long we keep your records.

    How can I access and correct my personal information at your practice?

    You may request access to the personal information we hold about you. You can also request that corrections be made to it. We will respond to your request within ten working days.

    To request access to your personal information please email the Clinical Nurse team at your practice:

    To request corrections to be made to your personal information, please contact:

    Manager, Health and Medical Services

    Building N12,

    GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY QLD 4222

    Email: cheryl.walker@griffith.edu.au

    Contact number: +61 07 3735 7265

    There are some circumstances where we are not required to give you access to or correct your personal information, for example, if disclosure may cause a serious threat to your health or safety.  We will normally give you a written notice setting out our reasons for not complying with your request and informing you of how you can complain about our refusal.

    There is no fee for requesting access to your personal information or for us to make corrections.

    Patients from the European Economic Union may have additional rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), please see the University’s Privacy Statement for additional information.

    How can I lodge a privacy-related complaint, and how will the complaint be handled at your practice?

    We take complaints and concerns regarding privacy seriously. You should express any privacy concerns you may have in writing to:

    Manager, Health and Medical Services

    Building N12

    GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY QLD 4222

    Email: cheryl.walker@griffith.edu.au

    Contact number: +61 07 3735 7265

    Upon receipt of a complaint, we will consider the details and manage it in accordance with the University’s Privacy Statement.

    Our privacy policy will be reviewed regularly to ensure it is in accordance with any changes that may occur. All changes will be displayed on the Health and Medical Services website.

    Current as of: November 2025

    Review date: November 2026

    Contact us

    Book appointment

    (07) 5552 8734

     Hours: Monday to Friday 8:30am to 4:30pm

     Location: Level 1, Student Centre (G33)

    University Drive, Southport Qld 4215

    Book appointment

    (07) 3735 7299

     Hours: From Tuesday 28 January 2025, our new operating hours are:

    Monday to Friday 8:30am to 4:30pm

     Location: Level 1, Sewell (N12)

    Kessels Road, Nathan Qld 4111

    Contact the Hello Home Doctor service

    134 100

    Hello Home Doctor service

    For all medical emergencies, call 000 (triple zero) for an ambulance from any phone, or 112 from a mobile. Then report the emergency to Griffith security, call 1800 800 707.

    For mental wellbeing support, call the Griffith Mental Welbeing Support Line on 1300 785 442 or text 0488 884 146.

    Hospitals

    Visit the emergency room of nearby public hospital (free emergency care to Australian residents):

    • The Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Hospital at the corner of Kessels Road and Troughton Road, Coopers Plains
    • Princess Alexandra Hospital at 199 Ipswich Road, Woolloongabba
    • Gold Coast University Hospital at 1 Hospital Boulevard, Southport.

    Other services outside Griffith

    13 HEALTH is a confidential phone service that provides health advice to Queenslanders.

    You can phone and talk to a registered nurse 24 hours a day, seven days a week for the cost of a local call.

    13 HEALTH (13 432584)

    Allianz Care Telehealth

    Allianz Care Australia offers OSHC and OVHC Visitors Plus members a service that allows you to speak to a qualified doctor 24 hours a day, seven days a week, via phone or video call.

    See the website for more information about this free service.

    Allianz Care Australia

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