The Albanese and Palaszczuk governments are making it easier for Townsville residents to see a doctor with a provider for the Townsville Medicare Urgent Care Clinic (Medicare UCC) finalised, following an Expression of Interest process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Eastbrooke Family Clinic will be established as the Townsville Medicare UCC and is expected to start seeing patients in December 2023. \u201cTownsville families deserve free, high-quality health care close to home \u2013 and that\u2019s exactly what the new Medicare Urgent Care Clinic will provide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI\u2019m so proud that the Palaszczuk Government helped to deliver this facility, which will treat urgent, but not life-threatening, conditions and illnesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis clinic, together with our $530 million Townsville University Hospital expansion, will ensure residents have access to Queensland\u2019s world-class healthcare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis is another example of the Albanese and Palaszczuk governments delivering for Queensland.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Senator Green said:<\/strong> The Albanese and Palaszczuk governments are making it easier for Townsville residents to see a doctor with a provider for the Townsville Medicare Urgent Care Clinic (Medicare UCC) finalised, following an Expression of Interest process. Eastbrooke Family Clinic will be established as the Townsville Medicare UCC and is expected to start seeing patients in December … Continue reading “Provider Finalised for Medicare Urgent Care Clinic in Townsville”<\/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-24224","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\/24224","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=24224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24225,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24224\/revisions\/24225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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The Townsville Medicare UCC delivers on the government\u2019s commitment to make it easier for people in Townsville to get the urgent treatment they need \u2013 from highly qualified doctors and nurses \u2013 while taking pressure off the Townsville University Hospital.
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The Townsville Medicare UCC will be open for extended hours, seven days a week, and offer walk-in care that is fully bulk billed.
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The Townsville clinic is one of the 11 Medicare UCCs across Queensland \u2013 located in Bundaberg, Cairns, Gold Coast, Ipswich, LogaThe Albanese and Palaszczuk governments are making it easier for Townsville residents to see a doctor with a provider for the Townsville Medicare Urgent Care Clinic (Medicare UCC) finalised, following an Expression of Interest process.
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Toowoomba and Townsville Medicare UCCs are additional clinics established as a result of the strong collaboration between the Commonwealth and Queensland Government under the Primary Care Pilots program.
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The Albanese 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.
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Minister Butler said:<\/strong>
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\u201cThe Townsville Medicare UCC will make a big difference to patients in the region who will be able to walk in seven days a week and get free urgent care from a nurse or a doctor.
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\u201cThe clinic will ease pressure on the Townsville University Hospital, so that its hard-working doctors and nurses can focus higher priority emergencies.
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\u201cThe Townsville Medicare UCC is just another way the Government is strengthening Medicare and making it easier to see a doctor.\u201d
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Minister for Health, Mental Health, and Ambulance Services Shannon Fentiman said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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“The Townsville Medicare UCC will mean locals 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.
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\u201cI know many Townsville families who have had to wait long hours at the emergency department for non-life-threatening issues.
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\u201cThis Medicare UCC will ease pressure on the local ED 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":"