The Albanese Government is delivering on its commitment for a further 50 Medicare Urgent Care Clinics with a tender process underway from 22 August 2025 to identify a provider to operate the Tweed Valley clinic. This new clinic will give more Australians access to high quality and free walk-in urgent health care.
The new Tweed Valley Medicare Urgent Care Clinic will be open over extended hours, seven days a week, with no appointment needed, and all patients will be fully bulk billed.
The clinic is intended to take pressure off Tweed Valley Hospital and will fill an important gap in services across extended hours and over the weekend.
A tender process led by the North Coast Primary Health Network has commenced to identify a provider to operate the new Tweed Valley Medicare Urgent Care Clinic within the Tweed region.
The tender process will be open to general practices, community health centres and Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services.
Ninety Medicare Urgent Care Clinics have opened across Australia, which have already seen more than 1.8 million presentations since the first sites opened in June 2023, including over 355,700 presentations to the 22 existing New South Wales Medicare Urgent Care Clinics as at 4 August 2025.
Over 22 per cent of presentations to Medicare Urgent Care Clinics in New South Wales have been outside standard business hours, which means the clinics are filling an important gap in services across extended hours and over the weekend.
Over one in four visits to Medicare Urgent Care Clinics in New South Wales have taken place on a weekend, while one in five weekday visits took place at 5pm or later.
And with one in four visits treating a young person under 15, New South Wales Medicare Urgent Care Clinics are giving families timely health care and peace of mind.
Quotes attributable to Minister Butler:
"The Albanese Government is getting on with the job of delivering a Medicare Urgent Care Clinic for the Tweed Valley.
"By offering fully bulk billed urgent care, we're strengthening the promise of Medicare for all Australians.
"Medicare Urgent Care Clinics are making it easier for regional Australians to access the care they need, when they need it - without the cost barrier."
Quotes attributable to Justine Elliot MP, Member for Richmond:
"As your local Labor MP, you can count on me to deliver a Medicare Urgent Care Clinic in the Tweed region so 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 on the Albanese Labor Government's commitment to strengthening Medicare, with the single largest investment in Medicare since its creation over 40 years ago."
