Urapuntja Health Service Aboriginal Corporation

Meet some of staff at our Health Service:

From left to right (row 1) Jason King (Clinical Manager), Ben Halls (Aboriginal Health Manager).

From left to right (row 2), Peter Jones (Traditional Owner and Cultural Advisor), Peter Skinner (Facilities team) and Benny Morton (Facilities team).

General Practitioner

Description

Urapuntja Health Service provides services to a population of about 600 to 1000 permanent residents who live in 16 homeland communities. We are unique, in that we deliver an outreach service to all 16 homeland communities every week and our primary clinic is not located in a community.

Our Health Service has been delivering core primary health care services to the community for over 43 years. Community involvement is critical to everything that we do and confirms for clients that our service is a safe place where the experience of Aboriginality is understood and valued, and where special needs are recognised and supported.

Senior people from each of the homeland communities make up the Board of Directors, and their role is ensure that the organisation responds to the needs and hopes of the community. The Board is a representative body based on clan / family structures, and elections are held regularly in each community to appoint representatives to an Advisory Committee, and from this group the Directors are elected.

Our service currently holds Royal Australian College of General Practice Accreditation.

Clinic Hours

Mon Tues, Wed, Fri 9am – 4.30pm
Thursday 9am to 12 noon
After hours service for emergencies only
Tel 08 8956 9994

Urapuntja Aboriginal Health Service

PMB 31 Utopia

Via Alice Springs, NT 0870