The Prime Minister\u2019s announcement of an Urgent Care Clinic opening in Western Australia only highlights the fact that Labor lied to Australians by making a promise that could not be delivered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The new Urgent Care Clinic announced for Cockburn, is already 4 months behind schedule and there is no guarantee that it will be open for the promised extended hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Senator the Hon Michaelia Cash said: \u201cMr Albanese again thinks he can pull the wool over the eyes of Western Australians \u2013 he\u2019s done this time and again.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHe\u2019s happy to fly into this State for a few hours and make an announcement but he should not think he is fooling anyone,\u2019\u2019 she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe reality behind this announcement is very different to what Mr Albanese is trying to portray \u2013 these clinics are hopelessly behind schedule and many are not opening as they were promised to,\u2019\u2019 Senator Cash said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe Western Australian health system is in crisis \u2013 people in this State are being let down by two Labor governments \u2013 the Cook State government and the Albanese Federal government,\u2019\u2019 she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shadow Health Minister Senator the Hon Anne Ruston said: \u201cLabor promised that every Urgent Care Clinic would be open during the extended times of 8am-10pm, but it was revealed in Budget Estimates earlier this year that this not always the case.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe Government seems to be merely rebadging existing clinics with no guarantee that they will be open for extended hours,\u2019\u2019 Senator Ruston said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis is far from providing the promised improved access to critical healthcare and reduced pressure on hospital emergency departments,\u2019\u2019 she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Health Minister promised that 50 Urgent Care Clinics would be up and running across the country by 1 July this year, but it has been over four months since that deadline and not even half of these clinics are up and running.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Prime Minister\u2019s announcement of an Urgent Care Clinic opening in Western Australia only highlights the fact that Labor lied to Australians by making a promise that could not be delivered. The new Urgent Care Clinic announced for Cockburn, is already 4 months behind schedule and there is no guarantee that it will be open … Continue reading “Prime Minister deceives Western Australians over clinics”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23400,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23399\/revisions\/23400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}