PROVIDER IDENTIFIED FOR THE WINDSOR MEDICARE URGENT CARE CLINIC

The Albanese Government is pleased to announce a provider has been selected to operate the new Windsor Medicare Urgent Care Clinic (UCC) following a competitive tender process led by the Nepean Blue Mountains Primary Health Network.

MyHealth Kable Street has been identified as the successful provider to operate the Windsor Medicare Urgent Care Clinic which will be located at 2 Kable Street, Windsor.

The clinic will be open seven days a week operating extended hours. The new clinic will begin delivering urgent care for the community in the coming months.

The clinic will help to ease pressure on the Hawkesbury District Hospital emergency department, where around 42 per cent of presentations in 2024-25 were for semi-urgent or non-urgent conditions.

The Windsor Medicare Urgent Care Clinic will join the existing network of 31 Medicare UCCs across New South Wales.

Over 110 Medicare Urgent Care Clinics have opened across Australia, which have already seen more than 2.3 million presentations since the first sites opened in June 2023. This includes over 457,800 presentations to the existing New South Wales Medicare Urgent Care Clinics.

Quotes attributable to Minister Butler:

“The Albanese Government is getting on with the job of delivering more Medicare Urgent Care Clinics for people in Windsor.

“The new clinic in Windsor will be open seven days a week, extended hours and most importantly will be fully bulk billed.”

“This clinic will take pressure off the local hospitals, including the Hawkesbury District Hospital, and will fill an important gap in services across extended hours and over the weekend.”

Quotes attributable to Susan Templeman MP:

“I am delighted that a provider has now been chosen for a Medicare Urgent Care Clinic in the Hawkesbury, and that they’ll be up and running in just a few months’ time.

“Thousands of people across the Hawkesbury joined my calls for a local Medicare Urgent Care Clinic in the leadup to the Federal election, because we know how much a free, walk-in service with extended hours for urgent but not life-threatening medical care is needed.

“Not only will this take pressure off our hard-working Emergency Department staff, but it will mean faster treatment for many people is on hand in Windsor.”

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