Coffs Harbour GP Super Clinic to Provide Better Health Services
Coffs Harbour residents will soon have better access to GPs and allied health professionals following the signing of a $7 million agreement with Bawrunga Coffs Harbour GP Super Clinic Ltd.
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The Hon Mark Butler MP
Acting Minister for Health and Ageing
Labor Duty Senator for Cowper Matt Thistlethwaite
Senator for New South Wales
30 July 2011Coffs Harbour residents will soon have better access to GPs and allied health professionals following the signing of a $7 million agreement with Bawrunga Coffs Harbour GP Super Clinic Ltd.
Acting Minister for Health and Ageing, Mark Butler, today welcomed the signing of the $7 million agreement as a welcome boost to health care in Coffs Harbour.
“This GP Super Clinic will deliver better access to health services for locals in a single, convenient location,” Minister Butler said.
“The Gillard Government wants to make it easier for all Australians to see and contact a doctor and GP Super Clinics around the country are making this happen.
“The Coffs Harbour GP Super Clinic will provide a new level of integrated, multidisciplinary, team-based, patient-centred healthcare all under one roof
“Patients will be able to access care from GPs, nurses, allied health professionals and visiting medical specialists.
“The Coffs Harbour Clinic will have a strong emphasis on chronic disease and preventive health care and plans to offer physiotherapy, audiology, psychology, dietetics, speech pathology, podiatry, occupational therapy, dental, pharmacy, pathology, and exercise physiology as well as provide access to a health promotion officer and Aboriginal health workers.
Labor Duty Senator for Cowper Matt Thistlethwaite said that GP Super Clinics are providing care to communities where it’s needed most.
“GP Super Clinics are providing better access to health care for local communities across NSW now and into the future.
“The Coffs Harbour GP Super Clinic will train our next generation of health professionals locally with a focus on educating medical, nursing and allied health students, and GP registrar and post-graduate placements,” Senator Thistlethwaite said.
The Gillard Government is making a significant investment in the GP Super Clinics program and has committed $650 million to build 64 GP Super Clinics and upgrade around 425 existing general practices, primary care and community health services, and Aboriginal Medical Services across Australia. 31 GP Super Clinics are now either open, providing early services, or under construction.
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