COVID-19 (novel coronavirus)

Fever clinics are specialist clinics to assess people who may be infected with COVID-19. These clinics help to keep people who may be contagious away from other areas of hospitals and health centres. This helps to reduce the potential spread of the virus and keeps the emergency department available for emergencies.

Fever clinics are managed by Hospital and Health Services. View the Queensland Fever Clinic & Respiratory Clinics list (Opens in new window)(PDF) to find your closest location, or contact your GP or local hospital.

Click here for more information.

There is now a change to visiting hours at all Mackay Hospital and Health Service hospitals to provide more flexibility for those wanting to support a loved one. Two people may visit a patient, at the same time, for two-hours, once per day.

Click here to access the full information on visiting our facilities during COVID-19.

Mackay Base and Proserpine hospitals have increased the amount of elective surgery. Both hospitals are preparing to resume some non-urgent surgeries and had already performed additional endoscopies.

Non urgent elective surgery was cancelled in March following a National Cabinet directive aimed at creating more capacity in public hospitals to cope with COVID-19 patients.

The health service is also working closely with its partners in private healthcare to offer additional elective surgery procedures for public patients.

We will be in contact if we have a new date for you.

To keep our staff and patients safe, you may only bring one support person to outpatient appointments across all Mackay Hospital and Health Service facilities. Please speak to our nursing staff if you have questions.

If you are unwell and have an appointment scheduled, please reply “NO” to the automated text message sent out by the hospital and we will contact you within 14 days to discuss rescheduling your appointment.

The following patients will also receive information indicating if their appointment is postponed or converted to a phone or telehealth appointment where it is medically safe to do so.

• Outpatients who have an existing non-urgent appointment
• Patients on a non-urgent waitlist
• Patients waiting for non-urgent elective surgery.

If you have a scheduled appointment, and you have not heard directly from the Mackay Hospital and Health Service, you should still attend as normal.

Click here for Outpatients Frequently Asked Questions.

Please note:

If we must reschedule your appointment you will not lose your place.

All urgent outpatient appointments will proceed, either face-to-face or virtually, and all urgent elective procedures are continuing at this time.

If your condition worsens during this period, seek advice from your GP.