Chatswood And Dee Why Medicare Urgent Care Clinics Now Open
The Albanese Government is delivering for residents North Sydney with the opening of the Chatswood and Dee Why Medicare Urgent Care Clinics.
The Chatswood Medicare Urgent Care Clinic is located at 270 Victoria Avenue Chatswood, and the Dee Why Medicare Urgent Care Clinic at 10 Dale Street Brookvale, both now open over extended hours, seven days a week.
No appointment is needed, patients can walk in and all services are bulk billed.
The highly trained doctors and nurses are equipped to treat a range of conditions and injuries that need urgent attention but aren’t life threatening, including cuts, viral infections, or a sprained ankle.
The Chatswood Medicare Urgent Care Clinic will ease pressure on the busy Royal North Shore Hospital, where around 43 per cent of presentations in 2023-24 were for semi-urgent or non-urgent conditions.
The Dee Why Medicare Urgent Care Clinic will ease pressure on the busy Northern Beaches Hospital, where around 36 per cent of presentations in 2023-24 were for semi-urgent or non‑urgent conditions.
New data from the NSW Bureau of Health shows the Albanese Government’s Medicare Urgent Care Clinics across New South Wales are easing pressure on NSW hospitals. Semi-urgent presentations to NSW emergency departments have dropped by 5.1 per cent while non-urgent presentations have dropped by 8.7 per cent.
This is part of the Albanese Government’s commitment to deliver more Medicare Urgent Care Clinics across the country with 4 out of 5 Australians to live within a 20 minutes drive from their local clinic.
Labor’s Medicare Urgent Care Clinics have already seen more than 2.4 million presentations since the first sites opened in June 2023, including over 495,800 presentations to New South Wales Medicare Urgent Care Clinics.
Over one in four of these were patients aged under 15 years old, more than one in four were on weekends, and over one in five were weekday after hours visits (at or after 5pm).
The Chatswood and Dee Why Medicare Urgent Care Clinics are commissioned by Northern Sydney Primary Health Network.
Quotes attributable to Minister Butler:
“These Medicare Urgent Care Clinics are a game changer for families in Chatswood and Dee Why.
“The Medicare Urgent Care Clinics will ease pressure on local hospital emergency departments and free up staff at the hospitals to provide care to people with more serious conditions.
“The clinics are a key part of the Albanese Government’s commitment to strengthen Medicare and make health care more accessible and affordable.”
Quotes attributable to Senator Jenny McAllister, Senator for NSW:
“Our Government is delivering better health care for Sydney’s northern suburbs with the opening of the Chatswood and Dee Why Medicare Urgent Care Clinics.
“These clinics are open for extended hours, seven days a week and will provide bulk billed urgent care closer to home.”
Quotes attributable to Jerome Laxale MP, Member for Bennelong:
“This clinic will make a real difference for locals by providing convenient, bulk billed urgent care right here in the heart of Chatswood.
“The opening of the clinic is a huge win for our community, taking the pressure off the emergency department at Royal North Shore Hospital.”
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