For over seventy years, Titirangi Medical Centre has been committed to taking care of generations of West Auckland families.
Nau mai haere mai ki te whare tākutatanga o Titirangi.
Titirangi Medical Centre is a family friendly medical centre consisting of 6 fully trained GPs, nursing and admin staff. We aim to offer the highest quality healthcare for the whole family.
Nestled within vibrant Titirangi, our clinic overlooks the beautiful Waitakere Ranges. Many of us are local and are part of the Titirangi community. Come visit us at 2 Rangiwai Road, Titirangi.
Our books are open. Please head to our Bookings and Enrolment page for more information.
Have a question about the practice? Visit our News and Information page to see if we’ve already answered it. Otherwise feel free to give us a call on (09) 817 8069 so one of our staff can help you out.
We will be closing for 2 weeks during the Christmas Period to let our hard working staff have a rest and recuperate with family. We will close on Friday 20th December at 4pm, reopen on Monday 6th January. Please order your prescriptions well in advance to cater for this closure.
It is with regret that TMC would like to advise you of some changes to our fees that you may notice moving forward from 1st October 2024, in line with other medical centres.
Along with other businesses and medical centres, we are struggling with significantly increasing costs. As we are sure many of you will be aware, the government is not increasing our funding sufficiently meaning we are forced to look at ways of trying to cover the lack of funding so our medical centre can continue to operate.
Up until now, many of the services we provide, in particular spending an increasing amount of time on medical administration and advice outside of booked appointments, have not been charged for.
Moving forward, we will be implementing charges for this work.
Some examples of this include:
- Referral letters completed outside of the consultation
- Phone or email health advice from your GP
- Phone or email health advice from your nurse (please note you can view your results on Health365. Please discuss with reception if you are not signed up)
- Follow-up work handed over from other health professionals such as from specialist appointments or hospital discharges
- Follow-up of test results by your nurse or GP
- Paperwork such as reports, medical certificates outside of the consultation
In addition, you will notice clinical staff charging correctly for extended consultation time taken (noting a single consultation is 15 minutes and only one problem or two small problems).
It is a last resort for us to have to increase the services that we charge for. We know households are struggling with increased costs of living.
We strongly encourage you to write to our minister of health, Dr Shane Reti and your local MP to express your concern with the inadequate funding of primary care which means we have to increase fees we change in order to keep our practice open.
We appreciate your support of our hardworking staff
The XBB COVID-19 vaccine is now available at our clinic from today. The XBB vaccine is more effective against more recent subvariants of COVID-19 in New Zealand.
The vaccine will be funded for these eligible groups:
everyone aged 30 years and over
people aged 16-29 who are pregnant
people aged 12-29 at higher risk of severe illness from COVID-19.
Please call and book in with the nurse to have this vaccine.
A phone nurse is available from 9-12 Monday to Friday. Please call within these hours if you would like to talk to the nurse. On Monday and Friday mornings the nurses are busy so expect to be waiting. If the issue is not urgent - it may be easier to call on Tuesday-Thursday when wait times are shorter.
As directed by Medical Council of New Zealand Good prescribing practice - doctors must review all prescriptions on a regular basis to ensure the prescription remains appropriate. This means that all patients must be reviewed at least annually, sometimes more frequently, for all prescription medication. Please do not be offended if you are requested to make an appointment for your repeat prescription renewal - it is to ensure safe prescribing.
If you have any fever, runny nose, cough, sore throat, rash, diarrhoea or vomiting please tell staff and you will be booked in the portacom clinic. Please wear a mask to your appointment.
Phone consults are available if you do not need to come into the medical centre for examination. For any consult requiring an examination (e.g. listening to the chest, examination of an abdomen) you will be required to be seen in person. Please talk to reception if you are unsure if your appointment needs to be in person or over the phone. Standard fees apply for all phone consults.
