Urgent cares are crucial for regional communities.
Instead of patients having to drive long distances to get medical care, we can manage them accordingly.
A Medicare Urgent Care clinic is for anyone in the community who is suffering from a non-life-threatening illness that can't wait 24 hours for a GP appointment.
It is a walk in service that is bulk bill and we provide treatments for any immediate care that can't wait.
It caters to everyone so anyone can come in and get timely care.
When patients walk into the urgent care clinic, nurses and paramedics assess the patient and you'll be triaged according to the priority of your illness or injury.
So, whatever's more urgent we do see first. We're able to do a whole heap of things and the scope is really quite wide.
Conditions like chest infection, minor cuts which need suturing, we get a lot of lacerations, we get a lot of UTI's, kids sporting incidents as well, a lot of fractures.
One of the benefits of the urgent care centres is the extended hours. We start early and we finish late.
It's been great for the young families, the elderly, it gives another option to the patients and it's making a real difference.
To find your nearest urgent care clinic, visit the website.