General Information
The standard of medical services in Australia is among the highest in the world.
Overseas visitors should take care to obtain their own medical travel insurance to ensure that they are covered in an emergency. Several Australian-based travel insurers have special cover for visitors which are much less expensive than travel cover sold in other countries.
Visitors from the UK, Italy, Malta, Finland, the Netherlands, Sweden and New Zealand are entitled to subsidised medical care under reciprocal national health care agreements.
Hospitals and medical centres in Far North Queensland include:
Atherton
Atherton Family Medical Centre (25 Louise St) Ph: 07 4091 1444
Cairns
Cairns City 24 hour Medical Centre (Cnr Florence & Grafton Sts) Ph: 07 4052 119
Cairns Tourist and Local Medical Services (Corporate Tower, 15 Lake St) Ph: 07 4041 1699
Clifton Beach
Clifton Beach Medical Centre (Clifton Village Shopping Centre, Capt Cook Hwy) Ph: 07 4059 1755
Innisfail
Innisfail District Hospital (87 Rankin St) Ph: 07 4061 5411
Mission Beach & Tully
Mission Beach & Tully Medical Centre (Cassowary Drive, Wongaling Beach) Ph: 07 4068 8174
Tully Hospital (cnr Cook & Bryant Sts, Tully) Ph: 07 4068 4144
Mossman
Douglas Shire Multi-Purpose Health Service (9 Hospital St) Ph: 07 4084 1200
Mountain View Medical Centre (4 Front St) Ph: 07 4098 1711
Port Douglas
Port Village Medical Centre (17/11 Macrossan) Ph: 07 4099 5043
Trinity Beach
Trinity Beach Medical Centre (Coastwatcher Shopping Centre, 1 Rabaul St) Ph: 07 4055 6281
Wujal Wujal
Wujal Wujal Primary Health Centre (1 Cape Tribulation Road) Ph: 07 4060 8239
Smoking is not permitted in Queensland:
- within 4m of non-residential entrances
- between the flags at patrolled beaches
- within 10m of children's playground equipment open to public
- at any major sport stadium
- at restaurants and in any licensed bar or club where drinks or food are consumed either indoors or outdoors.
$150 on-the-spot fines apply for breaches.
