From midnight Wednesday 28th July 2021, South Australia will reopen following the COVID lockdown. This means that Blackwood Podiatry can once again conduct face-to-face appointments.

However, a number of COVID emergency directives remain in place.

Our number one priority is to keep our staff, patients, and visitors safe, whilst continuing to provide podiatry and foot care services to the Blackwood community.

To help us comply with the current emergency orders, we ask that patients and visitors adhere to the following:

Contact Tracing

• Blackwood Podiatry has a registered COVID Safe Plan.

• Upon arrival, all patients and visitors must COVID SAfe Check-In.

  • via QR check-in for those with a smartphone.

  • A manual check-in contact tracing system is available for those without a smartphone.

Mandatory use of Masks

• All people - including patients, patient’s family members, healthcare staff, administrative staff, contractors and cleaning staff - are required to wear a mask that covers their mouth and nose whilst on healthcare premises.

• We kindly ask that if you have a mask at home, could you please wear this to your podiatry appointment. Either re-useable cloth masks OR single use surgical masks are appropriate to use.

• For those who do not have a mask at home, you will be provided with one upon arrival to our clinic.

• There are exceptions to mask-wearing, including:

  • when wearing the mask hinders providing podiatry services;

  • if suffering from medical or mental health conditions;

  • if living with a disability;

  • to enable communication with a person who is deaf or hard-hearing; and

  • children under 12 years of age.

Density & Social Distancing

• Density requirements mean that we can only have 1 person per 4 square metres.

• Density requirements do not include people employed at the practice.

• People must use their best endeavours to implement physical distancing and remain 1.5 metres from people they do not know.

• Only two patients/visitors will be allowed in the Blackwood Podiatry reception area at one time.

• If the reception area is at capacity when you arrive, you will be kindly asked to wait in your car. In this case, the reception staff will ring you when your podiatrist is ready for you.

• To assist with capacity restrictions we ask that:

1. You enter our reception area no earlier than five minutes before your scheduled appointment time; and

2. You do not bring any extra people along with you to the appointment - except in the case where you require a carer or parent/guardian to accompany you into the consultation.

If you should have any questions about COVID restrictions in our clinic please do not hesitate to contact our office on 08 8278 4100 and our administration staff will be more than happy to help you.