ECU Health & Medical Services is located on ECU Mt Lawley Campus at Building 8.
The Heath & Medical Services provide:
- General Practitioner consultations/Specialist referral
- Sports medicine and treatment of sports injuries
- Diving medicals
- Pre-employment medicals
- Travel vaccinations and health advice
- Contraception advice
-Morning after pill available with counselling
- PAP smears
- Pregnancy testing
- STD screening
- Minor surgery (eg removal of skin lesions and suturing)
- ECG
- Blood tests (eg Cholesterol, AIDS, Hepatitis B)
- Asthma checks
- Immunisations (eg Hepatitis B, Tetanus boosters)
- Counselling lifestyles, drug and nutrition
- Nursing services
- Physiotherapy and massage If you need to visit a G.P. (a doctor) or need medical assistance: ECU's Student Health Service on Mt Lawley campus: 9370 6814. Operates normal office hours, Monday to Friday. ECU's Student Health Service on Joondalup campus: 6304 5618. Operates normal office hours, Monday to Friday. Call healthdirect Australia 1800 022 222 http://www.healthdirect.org.au/ healthdirect Australia is a toll free 24 hour, seven day a week health advice line to all people calling from within Western Australia. healthdirect's experienced nurses provide immediate professional advice on how urgent a health concern is and what to do about it. Alternatively, visit this link for after hours doctor's clinics: http://www.health.wa.gov.au/services/category.cfm?Topic_ID=20
Public hospitals have a 24-hour Accident and Emergency department. You should only use these services in an emergency. If visiting an accident and emergency department at a hospital, a nurse will assess the situation and if it is not deemed to be an emergency, the waiting time to see a doctor may be 3 or 4 hours.
If you will be missing a class / classes remember to get a Medical Certificate. Attach the Medical Certificate to the completed Explained Absence Form, ask your lecturer to sign it and take it to Reception within 3 working days. | 
