Bogan Shire’s allied health services have expanded to include physiotherapy, with Nyngan practitioner Beck Jacobs now assessing and treating patients from the council-owned and operated Bogan Medical Centre. 

The $1.3million medical centre was purpose-built for Bogan Shire Council and opened in mid-May 2017 in order to attract and retain high quality medical services for the district.   

Council operate the centre as a non-profit service to the community with private GPs and other practitioners working from the centre supported by Council-employed staff. 

A $467,000 extension was officially opened just a month ago and included two additional consulting rooms, a nurses’/pathology room, two storerooms, a waiting area, paved walkway and new bathrooms.   

Bogan Shire Director of People and Community Services said the recent expansion of the Medical Centre had resulted in additional space be used for allied health services such as physiotherapy. 

“We are pleased to be able to continue to add to the services provided at the Bogan Shire Medical Centre to meet the needs of our community.”  

Physiotherapy services support patients presenting with acute, chronic, and complex musculoskeletal conditions, post-surgical referrals, return to sport programs, enhanced primary care plans, CTP injury claims and worker’s compensation claims. 

Physiotherapist Beck Jacobs in the new rooms at Bogan Shire Medical Centre with her first patient. PHOTO: Bogan Shire Council.

Beck graduated with a Bachelor of Physiotherapy from the University of Queensland in 2012 and was initially based in the Hunter Valley and later back in Queensland. 

In 2019 she was accepted into the Veterinary Physiotherapy Masters Program through the University of Liverpool in the UK and started her own mobile physio business to enable her to combine work with study. 

Three years ago, she moved her Valley Mobile Physiotherapy business from the Hunter Valley to Nyngan and has mostly been treating patients from a consulting room in her home.  

“I am very excited to now be able to base myself at the Bogan Shire Medical Centre,” she said 

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“I use a wide range of evidence-based treatment techniques including strapping, manual therapy, exercise prescription, neuromuscular stimulation/TENs and Dry Needling.”