Geraldton Medicare Urgent Care Clinic now open

The Australian Government is delivering for residents in Geraldton with the opening of the Geraldton Medicare Urgent Care Clinic.
 
Located at 233 Lester Avenue Geraldton, the Geraldton Medicare Urgent Care Clinic 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 Geraldton Medicare Urgent Care Clinic will ease pressure on the busy Geraldton Regional Hospital, where around 50 per cent of presentations in 2024-25 were for semi-urgent or non-urgent conditions.
 
The clinic is part of the existing network of 13 Medicare Urgent Care Clinics across Western Australia.
 
This is part of the Australian 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.
 
The Government's Medicare Urgent Care Clinics have already seen more than 2.6 million presentations since the first sites opened in June 2023, including over 277,900 presentations to Western Australian 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 Geraldton Medicare Urgent Care Clinic is commissioned by WA Primary Health Alliance.
 
Quotes attributable to Minister Butler:

“We are pleased to see this critical service opened for the people of Geraldton.
 
“The Geraldton Medicare Urgent Care Clinic will ease pressure on the Geraldton Regional Hospital emergency department enabling them to provide more 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 Senator Sterle:
 
“This clinic will make a real difference for locals by providing convenient, bulk billed urgent care right here in the heart of Geraldton.
 
“The opening of the clinic is a huge win for our community, taking the pressure off the emergency department at the Geraldton Regional Hospital.”