Sorell GP Super Clinic Moves Closer

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8 October 2009

The next phase of the development of the Sorell GP Super Clinic is under way with the selection of a firm of Hobart-based architects to design and supervise the construction of the clinic.

The clinic will be built on land donated by the Sorell Council in Cole Street, Sorell, adjacent to the existing Community Health Centre. It is anticipated that the clinic will open for services in late 2010.

GP Super Clinics are a Rudd Government initiative to improve access to quality health care in communities. They are a significant investment in taking the pressure off our hospitals.

The first fully operational GP Super Clinic commenced at Ballan, Victoria, in mid-September and interim services are being offered at 5 locations (Southern Lake Macquarie- Morrisset, Palmerston, Devonport, Blue Mountains and Warnervale).

While the services GP Super Clinics will offer will vary according to each location, mostly they will accommodate privately practising GPs, practice nurses, visiting specialists, and a variety of allied health services such as physiotherapists, dieticians, psychologists and pathology.

At Sorell, the community can look forward to general practice and allied health services in addition to a range of preventative health care services such as lifestyle modification clinics for smoking cessation and weight loss.

There will be chronic disease management clinics for diabetes, asthma, hypertension and cardiac as well as for men’s health and youth health. The clinic will also have facilities to support visiting specialists.

GP Super Clinics are a key part of the Government’s agenda for fixing Australia’s health care system. As part of the Government’s Health and Hospital Reform Plan, $275 million has been allocated over five years, from 2007-08, to establish 35 GP Superclinics around the nation.

The National Health and Hospital Reform Commission’s final report recommended that the Government improve access to comprehensive and multidisciplinary primary health care services in a single community location – which is what the Government’s GP Super Clinics deliver.

For all media inquiries, please contact the Minister's Office on 02 6277 7220.