Information for Clients

Health Checks

Have you booked in for your free health check at Danila Dilba clinic?

Danila Dilba clinics offer a free health check to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of all ages.

The health check is comprehensive and helps to identify whether a person is at risk of illness or a chronic condition. Identifying potential health issues early is much easier than dealing with them when they have progressed into a chronic disease.

Every person who completes a health check also receives a free Deadly Choices shirt, through a partnership between DDHS and the Institute for Urban Indigenous Health (IUIH).

Danila Dilba also visits local middle and senior schools in Darwin to conduct health checks for students enrolled in the Clontarf Academy (boys) or Stars Foundation (girls).

A Danila Dilba client undergoes a health check with an Aboriginal Health Practitioner in a clinic room.

School Based Health Checks

Danila Dilba partners with the below schools in the Greater Darwin region to conduct annual health checks:

  • Taminmin College – Humpty Doo
  • Palmerston College (7-9 campus)- Palmerston
  • Palmerston College (10-12 campus) – Palmerston
  • Sanderson Middle School – Malak
  • Dripstone Middle School – Malak
  • Nightcliff Middle School – Rapid Creek
  • Haileybury Rendall School – Bagot
  • Casuarina Senior College – Rapid Creek

Students see an Aboriginal Health Practitioner or Registered Nurse first to undertake some general screening activities including:

  • Haemoglobin
  • Blood glucose levels
  • Eye sight
  • Skin
  • Height and weight
  • Ears and Hearing

Following this, clients see a GP to run through the following:

  • H: Housing, home, relationships, recent moves
  • E: Education and employment, performance, bullying, future plans and attendance
  • A: Activities, hobbies, friends, sports, TV/computers
  • D: Drug use including alcohol, cigarettes, prescription/illicit, recent increases/decreases, frequency
  • S: Sex, sexuality, STI, PAP, safe sex
  • S: Suicide, depression and mental health

The DDHS oral health therapist also accompanies the health check team and carries out dental checks to identify any need for a referral. They also carry out fluoride varnish application where applicable.

DDHS Health Checks are comprehensive and can identify childhood developmental problems, risk factors for disease or the presence of disease.

Three Clontarf Academy students wear their Deadly Choices shirts after completing a health check with two Danila Dilba clinicians at their school.
A group of students at Belyuen School are photographed after having their health check.
Two young children look at an eye chart during a health check.

Client Policies and Forms

Check out the Danila Dilba policies and forms below to learn more about your rights and responsibilities as our client.

Release Medical Information Request Form

Download the ROI Request Form.

Client Eligibility Policy

Download the DDHS Client Eligibility Policy and find out if you are eligible to receive services from Danila Dilba.

Transport Policy

Download the DDHS Transport Policy and find out if you are eligible for transport services from Danila Dilba

Client Charter of Rights

Download the Client Charter of Rights to learn more about your rights as a Danila Dilba client.

Privacy Policy

Download the DDHS Privacy and Confidentiality Policy to learn more about how Danila Dilba collects and story client information.

Third Party Policy

Download the DDHS Third Party Policy to learn more about the client rights, privacy and confidentiality of clients when students are working in our clinics.

The Code of Conduct that guides our Board Directors can be viewed here.