Centre:

Katherine District Hospital

George Road, 3 kilometres from the Post Office down Giles Road

The 60 bed area hospital provides a great deal of primary care and provides experience in GP anaesthetics, obstetrics and surgery. The hospital is staffed predominantly by local general practitioners and by doctors who are gaining experience, often GP Registrars.

There are three well-equipped wards built in the late 1980s - obstetrics, medical/surgical, pediatrics as well as casualty/outpatients and an operating theatre. The hospital accepts both urban and rural patients and refers some cases to the Royal Darwin Hospital. Specialists from Darwin and southern states visit regularly; including surgery, gynaecology, pediatrics, ear nose and throat, orthopedics’, medical, etc.

The Accident and Emergency Department is staffed 24 hours a day. Between the hours of 1030-2000hrs there is a Medical Officer in attendance. Outside these hours the Medical Officer is on call for acute illnesses and/or emergencies. Patients are seen on the basis of clinical urgency and therefore waiting time will vary depending on the situation within the department at any given time

Hospital terms GP Training terms with some conditions
Supervisor: Dr Steven Yates

Director of Medical Services
Katherine Hospital
PMB 73
Katherine, NT 0852

Phone 08 8973 9211  Fax 08 8973 9000