Dr. Tom Challenger Honoured by White Pages and Awarded Citizen of the Year

Dr. Challenger is recognised under the theme, Keeping Our Communities Healthy, as founder of Medcall, a medical service that provides after-hours house calls to more than 400 Gold Coast residents per night.

In 2000, after his grandfather died late at night, Dr. Challenger established Medcall, a bulk-billing after-hours medical service that makes house calls. Volunteering his services, Dr. Challenger would drive up and down the Gold Coast, supported by just one other doctor, to attend to people in need for hours on end.

Since its inception, Dr. Challenger has grown Medcall into a key community service helping to take the strain off local hospitals and ambulances. Now with 48 doctors, Medcall provides medical attention to approximately 400 people each night who live between Beenleigh and Coolangatta.

When not on-call himself, Dr. Challenger is working on plans to roll out similar services in other cities.

With Medcall operating 365 days of the year, Dr. Challenger is a dedicated GP giving locals lifesaving care when they need it.