Our History
Honeycomb Health is a lifestyle medicine clinic that helps you develop positive habits. We connect with and collaborate across medical and allied health, so you receive an invaluable service.
Your Body
Your Story
Your Needs
Honeycomb Health was created from a need.
A need for collaboration, continuity of care, support, and networking. We wanted to create a place that felt serene, comfortable, welcoming, and above all, supportive. We believe we have successfully created this space, and we are working every day to uphold our values and our promise.
We are constantly looking for networking opportunities, services, staff, and contractors that will help us expand our offerings and help create the ‘hive’ of practitioners and support services we dream of being able to offer our patients.
A note from our Director
Why Honeycomb?
I often get asked why Honeycomb Health? It’s an unusual name for a General Practice. It was my daughter, who came up with the name Honeycomb as we were discussing the possible names for a clinic that focuses on the 6 pillars of lifestyle medicine.
The six hexagons of the Honeycomb logo reflect not only the six pillars of lifestyle medicine but that our GP clinic is the central hive for communication and collaboration. We do the things that you would regularly expect from a GP clinic but our focus is on the prevention as well as the management of chronic illness. Modern medicine has the capacity for us to live longer, how do we do that in a way that is full of quality life?
Lifestyle Medicine is defined as, “The application of environmental, behavioural, medical and motivational principles to the management (including self-care and self-management) of lifestyle-related health problems in a clinical and/or public health setting” (Egger et al, 2017).
Evidence based medicine has radically changed the way that we practice medicine but it relies often on boiling things down to single variables. In an increasingly fast paced and complex environment, things are rarely a result of one thing.
The leading cause of deaths in Australia in 2020 according to the Australian Institute of Health and Wellness all have multiple factors involved in their development. There is no one trigger. All of these illnesses have an impact on quality of life. We need to keep using high quality evidence to inform our treatment and prevention, but we also need to shift our medical focus from reactive medicine, wait for illness then treat it, to prevention. Let’s not wait to get sick before we look at the things that not only make us feel healthy but keep us as healthy as possible.
The joy of being a GP and the reason I was drawn to it, is the privilege of supporting people through their lives and getting to know the individual context that all of our health sits within. We are never just a blood pressure or a cholesterol reading. The cold we have that makes us feel wretched can amplify the difficulties that we are having in our relationship or reveal a need for more time out from work. The patients of Honeycomb Health are the core of ‘The Hive’. It’s an honour to have so many people who have trusted me for over a decade (or sometimes more!) and to welcome new people into our community.
