Patient registration
MyMedicare at HWBW
We invite all of our loyal patients to register with us in MyMedicare — strengthening the relationship between you, your GP, and our team.
Your trusted practice, formalised
At Health and Wellbeing Wulguru (HWBW), we value and respect each and every one of our loyal patients, many of whom are across multiple generations, who have formed a trusting relationship with us over many years. We would like to invite all of you, who consider us to be your usual practice, to register with us in MyMedicare.
What is MyMedicare?
MyMedicare is a Commonwealth Government initiative — a voluntary registration system that allows you to formally register with us as your usual general practice and preferred GP. This registration aims to strengthen the relationship between you, your GP, and the team at HWBW in order to provide you continuity of care and improve your health and wellbeing.
What are the benefits for you?
Why is MyMedicare important?
No matter your age, national and international research has shown that having a regular general practice and GP is important for your health and wellbeing. Finding a GP and practice that you trust, and formalising that relationship, is an important step that you can take to assist in helping you maintain your health and wellbeing. It encourages continuity of care. Our practice was the first in the country to be involved with research that has shown that regular interaction with general practices reduces hospital and emergency visits, as well as reducing readmissions to hospital.
Your feedback tells us that you want us to be informed of what happens to you in the health system when you don't see us. You expect us to help coordinate and be involved in your care outside of the practice. By embedding your choice into MyMedicare, registering with us provides a foundation to bridge this gap.
How does MyMedicare help us at HWBW?
Registering in MyMedicare will help us better understand you, your needs, and help us better tailor our services to meet those needs. This includes providing us with information about patients who choose us, which will help us to target and focus our health check reminders and health promotion activities.
As your registered practice and nominated GP, our name will be visible on your My Health Record. Over time, all pathology and test results done elsewhere will be uploaded to your My Health Record and be visible to you on your My Health Record App. This will help us collate and be informed about all your care so that we can coordinate care in a comprehensive fashion.
In the future, the Commonwealth Government will use registration with MyMedicare to provide incentives to us that will enable us to provide better and more services to you. This will include chronic disease management items linked into a patient's registration to support continuity of care with chronic and complex conditions.
How do I register?
There are three ways you can register with us:
Commence the registration process in your Medicare online services (Medicare Online Account or the Express Plus Medicare mobile app) — practice staff can then accept the registration in the MyMedicare system.
Our staff can commence the patient registration process in MyMedicare and you can then complete the registration and provide consent in your Medicare online services.
Fill out a physical registration form at our practice and our staff will complete the registration in the MyMedicare system with your consent captured on the form.
Common questions
Ready to register?
Visit us at reception or call our friendly team and we will help you get registered in just a few minutes.