Burnie Medicare Urgent Care Clinic now open

The Albanese Government is delivering for residents in Burnie with the opening of the Burnie Medicare Urgent Care Clinic.
 
The new Burnie Medicare Urgent Care Clinic, located at 20 Mooreville Road, Park Grove, is now open 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 Burnie Medicare Urgent Care Clinic will ease pressure on the busy North West Regional Hospital, where around 40 per cent of presentations in 2024-25 were for semi-urgent or non-urgent conditions.
 
The clinic will join the existing network of six Medicare Urgent Care Clinics across Tasmania, with a further clinic to commence operation in Kingston over the coming weeks.
 
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 minute drive from their local clinic.
 
Labor’s Medicare Urgent Care Clinics have already seen more than 2.5 million presentations since the first sites opened in June 2023, including over 145,500 presentations to Tasmanian Medicare Urgent Care Clinics.
 
One in four of these were patients aged under 15 years old, more than one in four were on weekends, and over one in three were weekday after hours visits (at or after 5pm).
 
The Burnie Medicare Urgent Care Clinic is commissioned by the Tasmanian Primary Health Network. 
 
Quotes attributable to Minister Butler:
 
“The Burnie Medicare Urgent Care Clinic is a game changer for families in the region.
 
“The Burnie Medicare Urgent Care Clinic will ease pressure on the emergency department at the North West Regional Hospital and free up staff to provide care to people with more serious conditions.
 
“This clinic is a key part of the Albanese Government’s commitment to strengthen Medicare and make health care more accessible and affordable.”
 
Quotes attributable to Anne Urquhart MP, Member for Braddon:
 
“For people in Burnie and the surrounding community, this Medicare Urgent Care Clinic will make a real difference by offering accessible, bulk billed urgent care right here in the heart of Burnie.
 
“It means families can get the care they need, when they need it, without added cost or long travel.
 
“The opening of this clinic is a big positive for the Burnie community, easing pressure on the Northwest Regional Hospital and strengthening local health services.
 
“During the 2025 election the community of Burnie strongly supported my commitment for a Medicare Urgent Care Clinic and their voices have been heard. I’m proud to be a part of the Albanese Labor Government which is delivering for the community of Braddon.”