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Contact information, map and directions, contact form, opening hours, services, ratings, photos, videos and announcements from The Bubble Tasmania, Women's Health Clinic, • The Bubble Launceston: 4/23 Brisbane Street, Launceston • The Bubble Hobart: 73 Federal Street, North Hobart, Launceston.

Specialist GP clinic | sexual & reproductive health including pregnancy care, infant care & menopause

https://www.instagram.com/thebubbletasmania?igsh=eGVzbXh2YTFhZTh2 Locations & contact details:

The Bubble Launceston
4/23 Brisbane Street
Launceston, TAS, 7250
P: (03) 6724 3063

The Bubble Hobart
73 Federal Street
North Hobart, TAS, 7000
P: (03) 6244 3033

30/08/2026

V***A 101: Yours probably isn’t weird.

First things first…

Your va**na is NOT the whole downstairs situation. 😂

The v***a is the outside - l***a, clit0ris, va**nal opening and all the other visible bits.

The va**na is the internal canal.

And while we’re here, can we talk about l***a?

Because v***as come in a HUGE variety of shapes, sizes, colours and configurations.

One l***a can be longer than the other.
The inner l***a can hang below the outer l***a.
They can be tiny. Long. Wrinkly. Smooth. Darker. Lighter. Asymmetrical.

All completely normal.

There is no single way a v***a is supposed to look.

P**n, social media and very selectively chosen anatomy diagrams have given us a rather spectacularly inaccurate idea of what “normal” female anatomy looks like.

So please don’t spend years worrying that your downstairs doesn’t look like everyone else’s.

Everyone else’s doesn’t look like everyone else’s either. 😂

Vulvas are wonderfully, ridiculously diverse. Variety is quite literally the norm.

#101

28/08/2026

Dr Tash is officially on extended leave from clinical work as she turns her attention to project managing our expansion…so of course we had to find her replacement 👀

Our other amazing doctors are still here and ready to look after you all!

Dr Tash will be back in a clinical capacity in 2027 - until then, the team have taken her absence well and this is apparently what we’re doing now to fill the void 😂

27/08/2026

“But my mum’s cousin’s uncle’s sister had breast cancer… does that mean I’m high risk?”

Okay. 😂

Family history conversations can get complicated FAST.

Maybe your mum had breast cancer.
Maybe it was your grandmother.
Maybe you’ve got three great-aunts and you’re pretty sure one had ovarian cancer but nobody talks about it.

And naturally you’re wondering:

“So… what is MY risk of breast cancer?”

Rather than trying to work it out from the family WhatsApp group, we recommend a brilliant Australian tool from Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre called iPrevent.

You enter information about things like:

👩 Your age and medical history
👨‍👩‍👧 Your family history of certain cancers
🎂 Approximately how old relatives were when diagnosed
🩺 Previous breast biopsies and other breast cancer risk factors

It then uses validated breast cancer risk models to estimate your personal breast cancer risk and produces a report with recommendations about screening and prevention options based on that risk.

Because having someone in your extended family with breast cancer doesn’t automatically mean you’re high risk.

But certain patterns of breast, ovarian, pancreatic or prostate cancer in a family can be important.

Knowledge is useful.

If you’ve ever wondered, “Should I be doing more than routine breast screening?”, iPrevent is a great place to start.

Do the assessment, download your report and bring it along to your GP.

Much easier than drawing your entire family tree on the back of a receipt 😂

25/08/2026

Omg I have cancer. 😭

So your cervical screening test is abnormal and now you need a colposcopy. Your brain is saying, for sure, that means cancer.

Deep breath. An abnormal CST does NOT mean you have cervical cancer.

Most abnormal results are related to HPV - an incredibly common virus that most sexually active people will be exposed to at some point.

Sometimes HPV causes changes to the cells of the cervix. Depending on your CST result, we may recommend a colposcopy to take a closer look.

🔎 So what the heck is a colposcopy?

It’s basically a much more detailed examination of your cervix.

You’ll have a speculum examination (similar to your CST), and the clinician uses a special microscope called a colposcope to look closely at the cervix.

The colposcope stays outside your body - nothing telescope-like is heading up there! 😂

A solution is applied to the cervix to highlight any abnormal areas, and sometimes a tiny biopsy is taken.

The aim is to identify any cell changes before they ever have the opportunity to become cancer.

And that’s exactly why cervical screening exists. 💗

So if you get the dreaded:

📱 “Your cervical screening result is abnormal and we’d like you to come in…”

Please don’t panic.

But also don’t ignore it.

Abnormal doesn’t mean cancer.

It means:

“We’ve found something that deserves a closer look.”

And finding cervical changes early is exactly what we want cervical screening to do. 💗

Are you due a CST in the next 6-12 months? Give us a call and let’s book it in!!

23/08/2026

Dads aren’t “helping” with the baby.
They’re parenting. Big difference!

And mums aren’t automatically the household project manager just because they gave birth. 😬

Parenting works best as a team sport.

That doesn’t necessarily mean everything is split exactly 50/50 every single day.

One parent might be breastfeeding.
One might be working longer hours.
One might be running on approximately 14 minutes of sleep and half a piece of toast.

Some days it’ll be 70/30.
Other days it’ll be 20/80.

The important part?

You’re both responsible for the team.

🍼 Feeding
🧺 Washing
🌙 Night wakes
🛒 Remembering you’re nearly out of nappies
📅 Appointments
🍝 Dinner
🧠 Knowing when vaccinations are due
🎒 Packing the bloody nappy bag

And yes - the mental load counts as work too.

You shouldn’t need to leave your partner a detailed instruction manual before you go out for three hours.

Parenting isn’t one person being in charge and the other person waiting to be allocated jobs.

It’s noticing what needs doing…

and doing it.

Same baby.
Same household.
Same team.

Tag your parenting teammate and show them some appreciation OR a gentle reminder…😜

20/08/2026

🇮🇪 Meet Dr Caitriona! (pronounced Katrina) 💚

Another wonderful addition to The Bubble Hobart team!

Dr Caitriona is a senior GP Registrar who made the move from Ireland to Tasmania in 2025 - and luckily for us, she’s decided to make women’s health a big part of what comes next. 🙌

She has successfully completed her RACGP Fellowship exams and brings with her broad hospital experience across both metropolitan and rural Australia.

Caitriona is particularly passionate about women’s health and genuinely patient-centred care. She loves getting to know her patients, building long-term relationships and supporting women through all the different (and sometimes downright weird) stages our bodies take us through.

And outside The Bubble?

🥋 She trains in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
🇮🇪 Plays Gaelic football with her local Hobart club
✈️ And has swapped Ireland for Tasmania - which we think is a pretty solid life decision.

We’re very excited to have Caitriona joining the Hobart team. 💚

19/08/2026

💚 Plot twist: The Bubble might never go national.

And… we’re actually very okay with that.

A few years ago, when The Bubble made it to the national finals of the Telstra Best of Business Awards, one of the judges seemed a little stuck on the fact that we hadn’t expanded beyond Tasmania.

At the time we remember thinking…

Mate. We’ve been open for about five minutes. 😂

We’d already opened TWO clinics at opposite ends of the state, built a multidisciplinary women’s health service from scratch and were caring for thousands of Tasmanian women.

But there was this underlying idea that to be really successful, the next step had to be Melbourne. Sydney. Brisbane.

Bigger. More. National.

And we’re calling bu****it on that a little bit.

Why can’t a Tasmanian business be wildly successful because it stays Tasmanian?

The Bubble is:

💚 Tasmanian founded and owned
💚 Women-led
💚 Independently run
💚 Not part of a giant corporate medical group
💚 Built specifically around the healthcare needs of Tasmanian women

We make our decisions here.

We employ people here.

We spend money with other Tasmanian businesses.

And we keep building services here so Tasmanian women don’t have to cross Bass Strait to get the healthcare they deserve.

Could we open on the mainland one day?

Sure.

Do we need to in order to prove we’ve “made it”? Absolutely not.

And actually, if another Bubble ever pops up somewhere…

👀 North West Tasmania, we’re looking at you.

Because there is still SO much we want to do in our own state.

Tasmania doesn’t have to be the launching pad before you move on to somewhere “bigger.”

Tasmania can be the whole bloody point. 💚

And we’re pretty damn proud to be building something for the women who live here.

18/08/2026

✨ Meet Dr Holly Evans ✨

We’re so excited to welcome Dr Holly to The Bubble Hobart team!

Dr Holly is a General Practice Registrar who comes to us with extensive hospital and acute medicine experience, including General Medicine, Palliative Care, Mental Health and Women’s Health.

She has a particular passion for women’s health, preventative care and whole person medicine - with a strong focus on making sure patients feel informed, involved and supported in decisions about their health. Perfect for The Bubble hey?!! ❤️

Dr Holly is also undertaking further training in palliative care, CBT-based psychoeducation and persistent pain management, and has a research interest in cervical cancer screening and prevention.

And when she’s not doctoring? You’ll find Holly hiking, swimming, doing Pilates, baking or planning her next trip. 🥾🏊‍♀️🧁✈️

We’re delighted to have Holly joining us in Hobart and can’t wait for our patients to meet her.

Address

• The Bubble Launceston: 4/23 Brisbane Street, Launceston • The Bubble Hobart: 73 Federal Street, North Hobart
Launceston, TAS
•7250•7000

Opening Hours

Monday	8:30am - 5pm
Tuesday	8:30am - 5pm
Wednesday	8:30am - 5pm
Thursday	8:30am - 5pm
Friday	8:30am - 5pm

Website

https://linktr.ee/thebubbletasmania

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