After 20 years of consulting and operating at both Maryborough and in Hervey Bay, it is with sadness that I close my rooms In Hervey Bay. Unfortunately due to the COVID 19 pandemic, the airlines have closed many flights to the region and do not fly daily. The airline service has also become unreliable and often cancelling abruptly without notice. A further issue has been the additional COVID restrictions limiting practitioners from “hotspots” or who visit hospitals with COVID patients to attend other “clean” hospitals.

I will continue to see patients from the region and I am happy to consult or review them by Telephone, Telehealth, Zoom, FaceTime or other videoconferencing methods. Unfortunately for surgical treatment they will have to travel to Brisbane.

Thankyou for all the support over the years and I will miss the face to face consultations in Hervey Bay and the surgery at St Stephen’s Hospital, Hervey Bay. I greatly appreciate the support, hospitality and friendship extended to me whenever I have visited Maryborough and Hervey Bay.