Good Schools on the Sunshine Coast

[Koala Konnection]

Hello everyone

For those of you that haven't bumped into Koala Konnection yet let me tell you that Gill and I run this web site dedicated to "Poms" and other migrants coming to live on the Sunshine Coast. Since Tim's been on our forum telling everyone about his excellent forums, I thought I'd do the same. You have excellent forums Tim!

Koala Konnection is a full blown web site plus a forum. As a result we have photographed and offer information on different parts of the Sunshine Coast - from Caloundra to Noosa, Nambour to Maleny, and there's plenty of documented material to digest - from healthcare, a property build diary, actual property and businesses for sale on the coast through to motoring issues and a very important schools league table, to name just a few.

Now the schooling information will be of utmost importance to those of you looking to have your children settle down in the right place and that's why we've compiled it into a sensible form and added it to our site. It's often asked where the best schools on the Sunshine Coast; here's your answer.

You can visit our site at http://www.koalakonnection.com.au

We have lived on the Sunshine Coast for just over two years now, emigrating from the UK, and have met plenty of UK migrants living in the area. It really is a special place to live.

Cheers.

Paul & Gill.

[chris the saint]

hi paul & gill,

we are moving to the sunshine coast in july hopfully and looking at living in buderum, we have been trying to get more info on diabetes as are daughter age 11 has just been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and we would like as much info as pos.
like where do we go for her medication, cost, clinics etc.

any advise welcome

thanks

chris

[Koala Konnection]

Originally Posted by chris the saint

hi paul & gill,

we are moving to the sunshine coast in july hopfully and looking at living in buderum, we have been trying to get more info on diabetes as are daughter age 11 has just been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and we would like as much info as pos.
like where do we go for her medication, cost, clinics etc.

any advise welcome

thanks

chris

Hi Chris, congratulations on choosing such a great part of Australia to live in, you'll love it and, as a pharmacist myself, I can confidently tell you that your daughter will get on just fine with her healthcare.

Once you register for Medicare (the Australian NHS) and find a GP he will prescribe all the required medications and you can get the prescriptions filled at any community pharmacy. Prescriptions for children are not automatically free in Australia but most medications are subsidised by the government and a wide range of antidiabetic medications are available on the NHS. The services of diabetes nurse educators can be accessed through your local hospital and provide practical advice and support to patients. Diabetes Australia is also a great not for profit support organisation for diabetics here. As well as providing helpful info and advice they administer a government backed scheme that provides the glucose test strips, needles and lancets either free of charge or for a small nominal fee through a number of pharmacies, and Campbell's pharmacy in Buderim is part of this network. There are others pharmacies on the Sunshine Coast that you can use too to access this scheme.

For more info on Medicare and prescription medicine costs go to our website. There is a link to Diabetes Australia and a number of other patient orientated health support organisations such as for epilepsy, asthma, depression/anxiety etc. there too. Just look in the migrant section under Health.

Hope this helps,

Gill

[chris the saint]

Hi Gill, Thanks for your reply regarding how to get insulin ect for my daughters diabetes it has put my mind at rest. i did reply ages ago but don't know if you got it.

We hope to be moving to buderim do you know the area and anything about the schools?

Any info would be grate.

Thanks

Chris