Dr Harold Downing established Livingstone Street Clinic in 1919. His two sons John and David joined Livingstone Street Clinic after World War Two. Livingstone Street Clinic moved to its current location in 1970.
Livingstone Street Clinic prides itself in supporting doctors who provide a wide range of medical services, including Women’s and Men’s Health Issues, Paediatrics, Geriatrics, Travel Medicine, and Minor Surgery. Other onsite services include pathology, x-ray, podiatry, physiotherapy, psychology, dietetics, urology and gynaecology. Livingstone Street Clinic is affiliated with the University of Melbourne, along with Monash University and has a long history of supporting medical students.
We are an independent, non-corporate owned practice. We maintain high standards of facilities and services in accordance with our APGAL General Practice accreditation.
The clinic aim is to give doctors the highest possible quality of support to care for their patients by ensuring excellence in all aspects of our practice.
We endeavour to provide doctors with the best and most current equipment within our resource capabilities, to ensure they can deliver their patients the high quality of service they have come to expect.
Teamwork is highly valued and encouraged within Livingstone Street Clinic to promote a harmonious and productive environment. We hold great importance in ethical and responsible behaviour that is essential to maintain the trust and loyalty of the doctors we support and our staff.
We provide doctors with quality administrative and support services, so they can focus on delivering patient care.
The ethos of the Clinic is to support doctors to deliver high quality holistic evidence-based medicine in an atmosphere of care and compassion.
All doctors who consult from this practice are on the Vocational Register of General Practitioners, which means they have a commitment to General Practice and Continuing Medical Education.
