Provider identified for Burwood Medicare Urgent Care Clinic

The Australian Government is pleased to announce provider has been selected to operate the new Burwood Medicare Urgent Care Clinic (UCC) following a competitive tender process led by the Eastern Sydney Primary Health Network.
 
The Myhealth Burwood Clinic, located at Shop G01/8 Elsie St, Burwood has been identified as the successful provider to operate the Burwood Medicare Urgent Care Clinic.
 
The clinic will be open seven days a week operating extended hours.
 
The new Urgent Care Clinic will begin delivering care for the community by the end of the year.
 
The clinic will offer walk-in care for urgent but non-life-threatening conditions and will be fully bulk billed.
 
The clinic will help to ease pressure on the Concord Repatriation General Hospital emergency department where around 30 per cent of presentations in 2023-24 were for semi-urgent or non-urgent conditions.
 
The Burwood Medicare Urgent Care Clinic will join the existing network of 22 Medicare Urgent Care Clinics across New South Wales.
 
Ninety Medicare UCCs are in operation across Australia, which have already seen more than 2 million presentations since the first sites opened in June 2023. This includes over 434,000 presentations to the existing New South Wales Medicare UCCs. 
 
Quotes attributable to Minister Butler:
 
“The Albanese Government is getting on with the job of delivering more Medicare Urgent Care Clinics for people in New South Wales.
 
“The new clinic in Burwood will be open seven days a week, extended hours and most importantly they’ll be fully bulk billed.
 
“This clinic will take pressure off the local hospitals, including the Concord Repatriation General Hospital, and will fill an important gap in services across extended hours and over the weekend.”
 
Quotes attributable to Sally Sitou MP, Member for Reid:
 
“Burwood is a vibrant, bustling 24-hour area – home to shift workers, students and families who often need care outside of regular hours.”
 
“This new Medicare Urgent Care Clinic in Burwood will mean people can get the medical attention they need, without having to wait in an emergency department or worry about the cost.”