The Albanese Government is delivering for residents in Tweed Valley with the opening of the Tweed Heads Medicare Urgent Care Clinic.
Located at 33-35 Corporation Circuit Tweed Heads South, the Tweed Heads 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 Tweed Heads Medicare Urgent Care Clinic will ease pressure on the busy Tweed Valley Hospital, where around 35 per cent of presentations in 2023-24 were for semi-urgent or non-urgent conditions.
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 minutes drive from their local clinic.
Labor’s Medicare Urgent Care Clinics have already seen more than 2.2 million presentations since the first sites opened in June 2023, including over 452,100 presentations to New South Wales 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 Tweed Heads Medicare UCC is commissioned by North Coast Primary Health Network.
Quotes attributable to Minister Butler:
"The Tweed Heads Medicare Urgent Care Clinic is a game changer for families in the North Coast New South Wales region.
“The Tweed Heads Medicare Urgent Care Clinic will ease pressure on the emergency department at Tweed Valley Hospital and free up staff at the hospital 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 Justine Elliot MP:
“As your local Labor MP I’m proud to be delivering on my election commitment for a Medicare Urgent Care Clinic in the Tweed region.
“The Medicare Urgent Care Clinic at Tweed Health for Everyone Superclinic means you can get the free, fully bulk billed, urgent care you need.
“All you will need is your Medicare card, not your credit card.
“This extends The Albanese Labor Government’s commitment to strengthening Medicare, with the single largest investment in Medicare since its creation over 40 years ago”