A new Urgent Care Centre is opening its doors to patients in Wentworth today, improving access to timely non-emergency healthcare and helping local communities avoid unnecessary trips to the emergency department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Minns Labor Government has been focused on delivering improved access to healthcare in regional NSW by delivering more services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Wentworth Urgent Care Centre is co-located in the new $30 million Wentworth Hospital and is open 365 days a year from 8am to 8pm, seven days a week. The Urgent Care Centre is staffed by nurses and supported by medical officers with important diagnostic services on-site including some pathology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Urgent Care Centre is equipped to treat a range of illnesses and injuries that are deemed urgent, but not life-threatening. This includes minor cuts, sprains or suspected fractures, minor infections, minor burns, rashes, insect or animal bites, cough, cold or flu, mild asthma attacks, earaches, fevers or chills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To access the service, patients should call healthdirect on 1800 022 222. A registered nurse will assess the patient’s condition and guide them to the care they need. This may include an appointment at the Wentworth Urgent Care Centre, a specialist virtual care service or escalating their care to other services like NSW Ambulance if required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Walk-in patients presenting to the Wentworth Urgent Care Centre will also be triaged, treated or transferred to the most appropriate facility to receive the right care, at the right time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Healthcare provided at Wentworth Urgent Care Centre is bulk-billed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Minns Labor Government is working to improve access to care and reduce wait times, through the emergency department relief package which will invest an additional $100 million to fund urgent care services for a further two years, providing a pathway to care outside of our hospitals for an estimated 114,000 patients once fully implemented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Minister for Regional Health, Ryan Park:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cFamilies in Wentworth and surrounding areas now have more pathways to access timely care for conditions which can be safely and effectively treated outside of the emergency department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis new service is co-located in the new $30 million Wentworth hospital and will improve access to care and reduce wait times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Minns Government is increasing availability of healthcare to communities through urgent care services just like this one, which are aimed at bridging the gap between primary care and emergency care, ensuring patients have fast access to the care they need.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Member for Murray Helen Dalton:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n “I welcome access to an urgent care service for the residents of Wentworth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe new Urgent Care Centre is a win for the community and is the perfect complement for the brand new $30 million Wentworth Hospital.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Labor Spokesperson for Murray Bob Nanva:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cImportantly, the Urgent Care Centre at Wentworth Hospital will operate from 8am to 8pm, seven days a week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis is good news for local families, because illnesses and injuries can happen at any time, any day.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A new Urgent Care Centre is opening its doors to patients in Wentworth today, improving access to timely non-emergency healthcare and helping local communities avoid unnecessary trips to the emergency department. The Minns Labor Government has been focused on delivering improved access to healthcare in regional NSW by delivering more services. The Wentworth Urgent Care … Continue reading “New Wentworth Urgent Care Centre now open”<\/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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38644","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=38644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38645,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38644\/revisions\/38645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}