MEDICAL INFORMATION
Medicare
Australia has an excellent public health care scheme known as Medicare. Benefits include free treatment as a Medicare patient in a public hospital and free or subsidised treatment by practitioners such as doctors, including some specific services performed by specialists, participating optometrists and dentists. Medicare is available to all Australian citizens and individuals holding a permanent visa. Australia has a reciprocal medical agreement with certain countries. Residents of the listed countries below are eligible to restricted access to Australia's public health system.

For more details on the reciprocal agreement: Medicare can be contacted on 132 290 or via www.medicareaustralia.gov.au.

Reciprocal Countries
United Kingdom
Republic of Ireland
New Zealand
Italy
Sweden
Netherlands
Finland
Malta

It is strongly recommended that all individuals travel with adequate private health insurance.

Visitors to this country can bring with them a reasonable quantity of prescribed medications granted they are labelled and easily identifiable.

Vaccinations
Vaccinations are not required unless you have come from or visited a yellow fever infected country or zone within six days prior to arrival. No other health certificates are needed to
enter Australia.