The Albanese Government is delivering for residents in Ellenbrook with the opening of the Ellenbrook Medicare Urgent Care Clinic.
Located at 7/150 Coolamon Blvd Ellenbrook, the Ellenbrook 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.
New data from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare shows the Albanese Government's Medicare Urgent Care Clinics across Western Australia are easing pressure on Western Australian hospitals. Non-urgent presentations to Western Australian emergency departments have dropped by 6.8 per cent and semi-urgent presentations have dropped by 2.7 per cent.
The clinic will join the existing network of eight existing UCCs across Western Australia with a further five to be established across the state.
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 2.4 million presentations since the first sites opened in June 2023, including over 260,500 presentations to Western Australian 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 Ellenbrook Medicare Urgent Care Clinic is commissioned by WA Primary Health Alliance.
Quotes attributable to Minister Butler:
"We're delivering on our promise to open more Medicare Urgent Care Clinics in Western Australia.
"The new clinic will be open seven days a week, for extended hours and most importantly patients will be fully bulk billed.
"This new data shows Medicare Urgent Care Clinics are taking the pressure off West Australian hospitals and making sure patients can get the care they need when they need it."
Quotes attributable to Tania Lawrence MP, Member for Hasluck:
"This clinic will make a real difference for locals by providing convenient, bulk billed urgent care right here in the heart of Ellenbrook.
From injuries playing sports at the DOS to a fall at home, I know families in Ellenbrook and surrounds will be glad to have fully bulk billed urgent care just around the corner from home.
This clinic joins the Midland and Morley Urgent Care Clinics in delivering affordable health care to my constituents of Hasluck.
"The opening of the clinic is a huge win for our community, taking the pressure off the emergency department at St John of God Public Hospital."
