Delivering More Medicare Urgent Care Clinics In Regional South Australia

The Mark Butler MP
Minister for Health and Ageing, Minister for Disability and the NDIS

Senator Karen Grogan
Senator for South Australia

Senator Charlotte Walker
Senator for South Australia

DELIVERING MORE MEDICARE URGENT CARE CLINICS IN REGIONAL SOUTH AUSTRALIA 

The Albanese Government is delivering on its commitment for a further 50 Medicare Urgent Care Clinics, with tender processes underway to identify providers to operate the new Victor Harbor and Whyalla clinics. 

A tender process led by the Country South Australia Primary Health Network has commenced to identify providers to operate the new Medicare Urgent Care Clinics in regional South Australia. 

This tender process will be open to general practices, community health centres and Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services.  

The new Victor Harbor and Whyalla Medicare Urgent Care Clinics will be open extended hours, seven days a week, with no appointment needed, and patients will be fully bulk billed. 

The clinics are intended to take pressure off the South Coast District Hospital and the Whyalla Hospital. 

These two clinics will give more regional Australians access to high quality and free walk-in urgent health care. 

Ninety Medicare Urgent Care Clinics have opened across Australia, which have already seen more than 1.8 million presentations since the first sites opened in June 2023, including over 107,000 presentations to South Australian Medicare Urgent Care Clinics. 

With around 1 in 4 visits treating a young person under 15, South Australian Medicare Urgent Care Clinics are giving families timely health care and peace of mind.