Kingston Medicare Urgent Care Clinic to open

The Albanese Labor Government is delivering for residents in Kingborough with the Kingston Medicare Urgent Care Clinic set to open on Monday 23rd February.
 
The new Kingston Medicare Urgent Care Clinic, located at Shop 63, 29 Channel Highway, Kingston will be open extended hours, seven days a week.
 
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 Kingston Medicare Urgent Care Clinic will ease pressure on the busy Royal Hobart Hospital, where around 32 per cent of presentations in 2024-25 were for semi-urgent or non-urgent conditions.
 
The clinic will join the existing network of seven Medicare Urgent Care Clinics across Tasmania.
 
This is part of the Albanese Labor 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.
 
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 147,300 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 Kingston Medicare Urgent Care Clinic is commissioned by the Tasmanian Primary Health Network.
 
Quotes attributable to Minister Butler:
 
“The Kingston Medicare Urgent Care Clinic is a game changer for families in the region.
 
“The Kingston Medicare Urgent Care Clinic will ease pressure on the Royal Hobart Hospital emergency department which provides 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 Minister Collins:
  
“This clinic will make a real difference for locals by providing convenient, bulk billed urgent care right here in the heart of Kingston.
 
“The opening of the clinic is a huge win for our community, taking the pressure off the emergency department at the Royal Hobart Hospital.”
 
“I fought hard to secure this Medicare Urgent Care Clinic as an election commitment and I’m so proud to see it now delivered on and serving the local community.