The Albanese Government is delivering on its commitment to Brisbane Southsiders, with a provider for the Brisbane South Medicare Urgent Care Clinic (Medicare UCC) selected, following an Expression of Interest process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cornwall Street Medical Centre will be established as the Brisbane South Medicare UCC and will start seeing patients 23 October 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Brisbane South Medicare UCC will deliver on the Australian Government\u2019s commitment to make it easier for people in Queensland to get the urgent treatment they need \u2013 from highly qualified doctors and nurses \u2013 while taking pressure off the Mater Hospital Brisbane and Princess Alexandra Hospital.<<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Medicare UCC will be open for extended hours, seven days a week, and offer walk-in care that is fully bulk billed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Over 30 per cent of presentations to the Mater Hospital Brisbane and Princess Alexandra Hospital are for non-urgent or semi-urgent care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Brisbane South clinic is one of the 11 Medicare UCCs across Queensland \u2013 located in Bundaberg, Cairns, Gold Coast, Ipswich, Logan, Northern Brisbane, Murrumba Downs (Redcliffe), Rockhampton, Toowoomba and Townsville.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Australian Government will continue to work closely with Primary Health Networks and the Queensland Government to deliver the remaining Medicare UCCs, all of which will open this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a real privilege to be opening another Medicare Urgent Care Clinic, this time in Woolloongabba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAcross Brisbane\u2019s south, when Queenslanders need urgent care that isn\u2019t life threatening \u2013 the Brisbane South Medicare UCC will be here to help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Prior to the election last year, we committed to rolling out 50 new Urgent Care Clinics across the country. When we complete our rollout \u2013 we’ll have exceeded our target and there’ll be 58 centres giving Australians urgent care, taking pressure off emergency departments all over the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe Brisbane South Medicare UCC is going to make a big difference to patients across the Southside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSouthsiders will be able to walk in, see a doctor or nurse and access imaging and pathology services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe clinic will ease pressure on the Mater Hospital Brisbane and Princess Alexandra Hospital, allowing them to concentrate on higher priority emergencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe Albanese Government is committed to strengthening Medicare and making it easier and cheaper to get quality healthcare, by tripling the bulk billing incentive and making medicines cheaper.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe Brisbane South Medicare UCC will mean Southsiders who need urgent but not acute care, can get it quickly even if it\u2019s outside standard hours \u2013 and all they\u2019ll need is their Medicare card.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI know many Southside families who have had to wait long hours at the emergency department for non-life-threatening issues<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis Medicare UCC will ease pressure on our local emergency departments and be much more convenient for our community \u2013 closer to home, at short notice, and bulk billed under Medicare.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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