Leo is the principal of the practice. He has been in the practice since 1978. Leo graduated in 1976 and has been a general practitioner since 1977. He has a special interest in general practice research. He is a trustee of the Migraine Sufferer’s Support Group and regularly writes for the organisation's newsletter. He also writes regular medical education articles for the Waikato Times. You can read these articles on his website at www.freewebs.com/leorevell/
Dr Revell offered to be a teacher in the Stage 1, GPEP programme because he finds it a privilege to be involved in helping someone learn the ropes of general practice.
Johnathan Armstrong is the other partner in the practice and has special training and interest in paediatrics.
St Andrews Medical Centre began in 1978 when Dr Leo Revell set up in practice. He moved the practice to its present location at 6 Bryant Road in the Westpac Bank building next to the Te Rapa Post Office in 1991. Dr Johnathan Armstrong joined him in practice in 1999. Johnathan is a previous GPEP registrar.
The new premises in Te Rapa are situated in an excellent location. They are next to the Westpac Bank, the only post office within a radius of four kilometres. There is ample free parking. Other businesses in the immediate vicinity are a dentist, Sky Television, hairdresser, exercise gym, lunch bar and the Barbecue Factory.
The premises are part of a large block of shops. They were architecturally designed to make the best use of available space and feature a very large skylight and internal opaque glass partitions in order to make most use of available sunlight.
In the building are a physiotherapist, the Medlab, a podiatrist, and a therapeutic masseuse.
When the practice moved to this location it became the logical choice for workers in the Te Rapa industrial area to attend for accident care. A number of businesses have contracted with us to do all their accident care and have asked us to do pre-employment medical examinations. Some general practice patients come from the near vicinity of the practice, but the majority come from all over Hamilton.
Our services include general medical services, obstetric care and acute accident services, Monday to Friday from 6am to 6pm. These hours cover most of the time the factories in the vicinity are open. Many patients are attracted to the practice by the early-morning no-appointment-necessary surgery held between 6am and 8am. Appointment times are available from 9.30 to 11.30 and from 2 to 4pm, and then there is another no appointment necessary clinic till 6pm. At weekends there are few factories open. After-hours services are provided by Anglesea Clinic of which the practice is a shareholder. Prices are average for general practitioners in the city.
The practice is equipped with an electrocardiogram, defibrillator, hearing testing equipment, and is fully computerised. All notes are typed into the computer database and all prescriptions; laboratory data and x-ray report data is easily accessible by the computer on every consulting desk. All patients with particular conditions can be listed and circularised when a new treatment comes out. Audits are done by the practice of the care of patients with particular conditions. An accurate database is maintained of all patients who attend the practice, with addresses and current telephone numbers available.
The efficiency of this computer system enables us to perform many tasks in a fraction of the time other doctors take using manual or partly computerised systems.
Our electrocardiogram enables us to provide services for our many middle-aged and elderly patients with heart disease. We use the hearing-testing machine to assess hearing in our pre-employment examinations and also to check children for any hearing problems.
Because there is a physiotherapist, podiatrist and laboratory as sub tenants, patients are able to attend a 'one stop shop' for their medical needs. These health professionals bring in a range of patients who would not otherwise come to the rooms.
The practice has special interests in a number of serious and important medical conditions that we believe are probably treated particularly well. The doctors have had extra training and offer special expertise in a number of areas. These fields include the diagnosis and treatment of headache, migraine, depression and alcoholism, emergency care and cardiovascular disease.
Hours for the registrar are flexible and arranged to suit the workload. We have the teaching sessions on Tuesday. We are flexible and adaptable to registrar’s needs for working particular hours. Registrars are requested and required to make videos of themselves practicing and to do audits of aspects of the practice.
Profile updated 17 November 2011
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