Buronga HealthOne

05/06/2026

Need same-day medical advice? Phone healthdirect and you'll speak to a registered nurse for free, day or night.

A healthdirect nurse can:
✅ discuss your concerns, assess symptoms, and provide advice
✅ provide advice on whether to see a GP or Pharmacist
✅ call you an ambulance or advise if you should attend an emergency department or urgent care centre
✅ connect you with a virtualAdults telehealth appointment

The virtualAdults service provides safe virtual care for non-life-threatening conditions, illnesses and injuries including:
🦠 coughs, colds, fevers and flu
🦠 respiratory symptoms
🦠 vomiting and diarrhoea
🦠 minor infections and rashes

Call healthdirect on 1800 022 222 anytime of the day or night, 7 days per week for free instant health advice anywhere, anytime, across Australia.

In an emergency situation always phone Triple Zero (000) or go to your nearest emergency department.

03/06/2026

During winter, many people manage their cold and flu symptoms at home, meaning official data may not always represent what is happening in our community.

Flutracking is a weekly online survey where you will answer a short set of questions each week about any symptoms you have experienced to help provide a better view of respiratory illness.

✅ Each and every input helps make FluTracking more representative of the Far West community.

✅ We are always seeking representation from diverse groups. When registering, you can identify other members of your household, such as children. This helps identify trends amongst age groups.

START TRACKING TODAY: www.flutracking.net/join/ae/fwnsw26

31/05/2026

Buronga HealthOne is proud to be supporting an important local research project focused on improving heart health in our region
The Heart Health Check Community Project is a federally funded research project led by La Trobe University, in partnership with local community members and healthcare providers.
It’s exploring new ways for rural Australians to access a heart health check - whether that’s at home, through a pharmacy, or at a local healthcare service.
Why this matters: less than 1% of eligible Australians currently get a heart health check, despite heart disease being the leading cause of death, both nationally and here in our region.
By taking part, you’ll receive your own heart health check and a better understanding of your risk to heart disease, while also contributing to research that could help shape a new, more accessible model of care for rural communities.
Interested in taking part? Sign up below
www.oneheart.au
If it’s not something you can take part in right now, please consider sharing this with someone else who might be able to.
It’s something just for you and a chance to help create something better for others.
Be smart, check your heart, and take part today.

28/05/2026

21/05/2026

Influenza (flu) is serious, but isn’t as scary if you’re vaccinated. A flu vaccine offers you and your family the best protection from serious illness.

If your child is 2, 3, or 4 years old, they can get a free nasal spray flu vaccine in NSW. It is gentle, painless, and needle-free.

The yearly flu vaccine is free for:
- children aged 6 months to under 5 years
- Aboriginal people aged 6 months and over
- people aged 6 months and over with certain health conditions
- people aged 65 years and over
- pregnant women.

It is recommended for everyone aged 6 months and over.

Book your family’s flu vaccine today: www.healthdirect.gov.au/nswfluvaccine

19/05/2026

The Wentworth Urgent Care Centre (UCC) is open from 8am to 8pm, 7 days per week.

👉 Located at the Wentworth Health Service, 24 Hospital Road.

What is an urgent care centre?
Urgent Care Clinics are for urgent, non-life-threatening injuries or illnesses such as sprains, minor burns, or infections that cannot wait for a regular GP appointment.

It is not:
❌ an emergency department.
❌ a GP clinic.
❌ a commonwealth funded urgent care clinic.

It is:
✅ a space where people with non-life-threatening conditions can receive diagnostic testing, including blood tests.
✅ Minor treatment procedures for cuts, sprains and fractures, sports injuries, minor infection and burns, rashes, cough, cold and flu, earaches, fevers, insect or animal bites.
✅ Patient monitoring.

For life-threatening situations always call 000.

10/05/2026

Conversations about palliative and end-of-life care are often avoided because they can feel confronting.

National Palliative Care Week is a chance to change that 💜🧡

What is Palliative Care?
🧡 Palliative care is person and family-centred care provided for a person with an active, progressive, advanced disease, who has little or no prospect of cure and who is expected to die, and for whom the primary goal is to optimise the quality of life.

🧡 Palliative care helps people live their life as fully and as comfortably as possible when living with a life-limiting or terminal illness.

Where to start?
💜 Contact our Buronga Specialist Palliative Care team on 03 50217200
💜 Contact our Broken Hill Specialist Palliative Care team on 08 80801215
💜 Visit palliativecare.org.au

08/05/2026

Wentworth Urgent Care Centre (UCC) 🌟

👉🏿 The UCC is open from 8am to 8pm, 7 days per week.
👉 It is located at the Wentworth Health Service, 24 Hospital Road.

What is an urgent care centre?
Urgent Care Clinics are for urgent, non-life-threatening injuries or illnesses such as sprains, minor burns, or infections that cannot wait for a regular GP appointment.

It is not:
❌ an emergency department.
❌ a GP clinic.
❌ a commonwealth funded urgent care clinic.

It is:
✅ a space where people with non-life-threatening conditions can receive diagnostic testing, including blood tests.
✅ Minor treatment procedures for cuts, sprains and fractures, sports injuries, minor infection and burns, rashes, cough, cold and flu, earaches, fevers, insect or animal bites.
✅ Patient monitoring.

For life-threatening situations always call 000.

05/05/2026

Congratulations to our very own Jesse, Midwife of the Year for the Far West Local Health District! 💜🫶

Jesse Prokop is our Midwife of the Year! 🌟

Jesse works from Buronga HealthOne, providing care to women across the lower sector of Far West LHD including Buronga, Wentworth, Dareton and surrounds. She delivers both antenatal and postnatal care and has been pivotal in the implementation of the new MAPS (Maternity Antenatal Postnatal Service) model of care in Buronga.

Jesse provides women with the knowledge they need to make informed choices and stands beside them as a trusted and compassionate guide throughout their pregnancy and birth journey.

She is described as a strong advocate, ensuring women feel heard, respected, and supported.

Her holistic approach to care reflects the very essence of midwifery, caring not just for the clinical needs of women, but their emotional wellbeing and overall experience. 🫶💜

Congratulations Jesse! Our communities are lucky to have you.

Jesse will progress on to be nominated in the NSW Health Excellence in Nursing and Midwifery Awards to be announced in Sydney later this year.

04/05/2026

Wentworth and broader community across Far West Local Health District are invited to attend a ceremony to officially open the new Wentworth Health Service.

Date: Monday, 25 May 2026
Time: 9:00am AEST
Location: Wentworth Health Service, 24 Hospital Road, Wentworth NSW 2648

Please RSVP by Wednesday, 20 May 2026 via email: [email protected]

👉 The Wentworth Health Service was delivered by the NSW Government under a $30 million commitment to provide comprehensive, accessible, culturally welcoming and consumer friendly health care services to support the needs of the entire Wentworth community.

👉 The new purpose-built health service includes a reception area and waiting room, a 19-bed Inpatient Unit, palliative care suite, dining room, family gathering room, patient gym, courtyards and community health rooms. The project also included construction of new ambulance access and an Urgent Care Centre.