Doctors, dentists, vets and emergency departments near Menangle Park

If it is life-threatening, call 000. The main emergency department is Campbelltown Hospital on Therry Road, Campbelltown: it is the major emergency service for the Macarthur area, with a 24-hour emergency department, and the one of the two local hospitals that takes ambulances. If it is urgent but not an emergency, the Campbelltown Medicare Urgent Care Clinic at 296 Queen Street is bulk billed, takes walk-ins and is open 8am to 10pm, seven days.

The thing to plan around: no GP, pharmacy, dentist or vet operates inside Menangle Park. The developer’s project material lists such services as part of a future town centre, not as something open today. Every option below is in another suburb, so work out your route before you need it, not on the night.

The emergency department

Campbelltown Hospital, Therry Road, Campbelltown NSW 2560, switchboard 02 4634 3000. South Western Sydney Local Health District runs it together with Camden Hospital as one emergency department across two campuses, open 24 hours, seven days.

Camden Hospital on Menangle Road, Camden shares the same switchboard. Its emergency service takes walk-in patients only: ambulances go to Campbelltown, and patients who need a higher level of care are transferred there. Ring 02 4634 3000 to check the emergency service’s hours before going.

Urgent, but not an emergency

The Campbelltown Medicare Urgent Care Clinic sits inside the Campbelltown Medical & Dental Centre at 296 Queen Street, Campbelltown, phone 02 4637 2355. It opens 8am–10pm every day. No appointment is needed, and there is no fee for eligible services when you show a Medicare card. Parking is free.

Medicare Urgent Care Clinics exist for illness or injury that can be managed without an emergency department but cannot wait for a routine GP appointment — a sprain, a cut needing closure, a suspected minor fracture, an infection getting worse. Chest pain, breathing trouble, serious bleeding, head injury and stroke symptoms are emergency department problems. Call 000.

GPs

Bulk billing below is as each practice publishes it. Most list exceptions, so ask what you will pay when you book.

Ultra Care, Mt. Annan Doctors, Campbelltown Medical Centre and Appin Medical Centre bulk bill patients with a valid Medicare card, with some services excluded. Campbelltown Medical & Dental Centre bulk bills GP consultations for all patients; procedures may attract a fee.

Mount Annan Market Place puts two GP practices, a dentist, a pharmacy and a gym in one car park. By road it is 10.5 km from the estate entrance, further out than Campbelltown.

Pharmacies

There is no pharmacy in Menangle Park. In Campbelltown, there is TerryWhite Chemmart Campbelltown, 241 Queen Street, Campbelltown, 02 4640 8000 — Monday to Friday 8am–7pm, Saturday 9am–6pm, Sunday 9am–4pm, closed public holidays. By road that is about 8.8 km from the estate, roughly 10 minutes off-peak.

For a script after 7pm, there is TerryWhite Chemmart Narellan Town Centre, Shop 12, 326 Camden Valley Way, Narellan, 02 4646 1677 — Monday to Saturday 8.30am–9pm, Sunday 9am–5pm, with public holiday hours that may differ. That is about 12.7 km, roughly 13 minutes each way.

Chemist Warehouse Marketfair Campbelltown, 4 Tindall Street, (02) 4625 3411, opens 7am–10pm Monday to Friday and 7am–8pm on weekends. Marketfair is 7.8 km from the estate, about 9 minutes off-peak.

Dentists

Camden Dental Surgery takes Saturday appointments by booking. Camden Dental Centre is wheelchair accessible.

Physiotherapy and allied health

Macarthur Physiotherapy, Suite 4, 150 Lindesay St, Campbelltown, 02 4628 0026. Campbelltown Physiotherapy, Shop 1, 3 Allman St, with hydrotherapy and a children’s sensory gym at Villa 2, 7 Chamberlain St, (02) 4628 8181. The Physio Spot, 75 Broughton St, Camden, 02 4655 9477 — this practice previously traded as Physio Inq Camden.

Vets

Macarthur Veterinary Group runs four clinics across the catchment: Mount Annan, Unit 17/2–4 Main St, 02 4647 7722; Bradbury, 75 Jacaranda Ave, 02 4627 1333 (about 9.6 km via Menangle Road and Narellan Road, not Appin Road); Camden, 6 Ironbark Avenue, 02 4655 7664; and Gregory Hills, 2/13 Rodeo Road, 02 4648 3588. Ask your clinic who they refer overnight cases to, and write the answer on the fridge.

The numbers worth saving

Menangle Park is policed by Campbelltown City Police Area Command, which lists the suburb among the 38 it covers. The command has two stations — Campbelltown at 65 Queen Street and Macquarie Fields at 10 Brooks Street, 02 9605 0499 — both open 24 hours.

Fire and Rescue NSW runs Campbelltown Fire Station, 66 Broughton Street, 02 4634 6088. A volunteer NSW Rural Fire Service brigade also lists an address in the suburb, 72 Racecourse Avenue — that detail comes from the brigade’s own Facebook page. See community life for more on this brigade, and floods, fire and storms for what the hazards here actually are.