 |
Sheffield RHTS
|
 |
|
Sheffield Teaching Site The Sheffield Rural Health Teaching Site is located at 3A Pioneer Crescent. It has three bedrooms and can accommodate up to five students on a share basis. The accommodation is fully self-contained — bed linen, towels and cooking equipment are all provided. The RHTS is an easy walk from High Street and health services.
 |
About Sheffield |
 |
|
Population Characteristics
The population of the Sheffield area is 5,677 (2004).
Sheffield is located 30km from Devonport and 93km from Launceston, and is close to Mt Roland. It is located in a prime agricultural region that produces fat lambs, pigs, potatoes, timber and vegetable crops.
 Sheffield Farmland The area surrounding Sheffield was explored by the surveyor Nathaniel Kentish in 1842 as he was searching for a route from Deloraine to the north west. It was opened up for settlement, but was neither surveyed nor settled until 1859, probably due to the thick forests which covered the surrounding areas. It has been suggested that the name ‘Sheffield’ was chosen by Edward Curr, the then manager of the Van Diemen’s Land Company, who was a native of Sheffield, England.
Sheffield experienced a period of rapid growth in 1963 with the commencement of the Mersey-Forth Power Development Scheme in 1963. The power scheme was completed in 1963 and the town’s population declined. Today Sheffield is the centre of the Kentish local government area and is well-known for its murals, most of which depict the early history of the area.
For more information about Sheffield, visit the website below:
|
|
 |
|
 |
 |
Sheffield Health Services |
 |
|
Tandara Lodge Nursing Home
Tandara Lodge has been operating since 1978 and provides the following services:
Residential facility located at Sheffield providing:
- 27 High care places
- 9 Low care places
- 2 High care respite places
- 1 Low care respite places
- Licence for provision of transitional (palliative) care
- Supplying meals for the meals on wheels program
Community care program:
- 7 community aged care places
Rural health programs throughout the region:
- Community health clinic, providing a range of health services under the rural health service (including, women’s, youth, mental, sexual allied, arthritis, transport and diabetes health).
- Weekly HACC Adult Activity Centre (Day Centre)
Community housing at Sheffield and Railton:
- 38 independent living units (community housing)
Clients are mostly from the special needs group, which covers people from rural and remote, socially and financially disadvantaged, people from non-English speaking backgrounds and war veterans and their widows. Tandara is accredited under the Australian Government accreditation program and employs over 65 staff from the local area.
Turnbull’s Pharmacy
Turnbull’s Pharmacy has been looking after the health needs of the Kentish community for 35 years.
Products and Services
- Medicare payout agency
- Home health aids for sale or hire
- Regular deliveries thoughout Kentish
- Ear piercing
- Tattersalls Agency
Open Monday to Friday 9am - 6pm, Saturday 9am - 1pm
Sheffield Medical Centre
The Sheffield Medical Centre is located at 48 High Street. The surgery is well equipped with modern equipment. A practice nurse is employed each day to assist with minor procedures, immunisations, ECGs, dressings etc. The practice offers bulk billing for aged pensioners and Veteran Affairs card holders, childhood immunisations and pap smears.
- AGPAL accredited
- Office is fully computerised Mednetwork and Medical Director
- Well equipped for minor procedures and diagnostic checks
- Has two consulting rooms and one procedure room
- Provide VMO-GP cover to the Tandara Nursing Home at Sheffield
- Use of the GP Assist after hours triaging service means reduced callouts
- X-rays courier service
- Pathology collected twice daily
- The district is serviced by allied health and community nursing services
- An ambulance service is based at Sheffield
- Normal consulting hours are 8.30am 5.30pm Monday to Friday and 8.30am 10.30am Saturdays with an appointments system in operation.
- Run diabetes, asthma and mental health awareness programmes
|
|
 |
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
