- The Crisafulli Government's Gladstone Nurse-led Walk-in Clinic has achieved a record two-months of presentations after a major funding boost expanded opening hours.
- The expanded hours means locals are now able to access the clinic seven days a week, for treating cuts, coughs, colds, and other minor illnesses.
- These expanded hours have been made possible thanks to an almost $1 million funding boost and is helping to alleviate pressure on Gladstone Hospital's Emergency Department.
- The Crisafulli Government opened the clinic in December 2024, after the former Labor government failed to open the clinic and secure its funding.
The Crisafulli Government is delivering easier access to health services for Gladstone, with expanded operating hours at the Nurse-led Walk-in Clinic.
In the first two months since the clinic's hours expanded to 7am to 5pm every day of the week, a record number of patients have received care.
In March and April 2026, there were 3,423 patient presentations, up from 2,086 patient presentations during the same period the year prior.
Gladstone Hospital's Emergency Department also saw a reduction of almost 300 presentations following the expansion of clinic hours.
Together with the new transit lounge that recently opened at the Gladstone Hospital, the new clinic is helping to ease pressure on the hospital's busy Emergency Department and bring down ambulance ramping which skyrocketed across the State under Labor.
The Gladstone Nurse-led Walk-in Clinic's expanded hours are thanks to an almost $1 million injection from the Crisafulli Government, after the former Labor Government committed to the clinic but never delivered it or properly funded it.
Minister for Health and Ambulance Services Tim Nicholls said the expanded hours was just one of the ways the Crisafulli Government was delivering easier access to health services in Central Queensland.
"Labor underfunded and then failed to open the clinic, leaving it to the Crisafulli Government to step in to save this clinic," Minister Nicholls said.
"Since we opened it, the clinic has gone from strength to strength and the early results following our expanded hours demonstrate this.
"An additional 1,300 patients have been treated in March and April this year compared to the same time last year.
"This is giving locals easier access to this free service for non-life-threatening injuries and illnesses and is helping to alleviate some of the pressures on the busy hospital."
Member for Callide Bryson Head said the clinic was just one of the ways the Crisafulli Government was delivering for Gladstone and Central Queensland after a decade of decline under Labor.
"The Nurse-Led Walk-In Clinic has been an absolute gamechanger for Gladstone after Labor left our local health system on life support," Mr Head said.
"Not only does the facility give locals easier access to care but it's also led to a decrease in presentations at Gladstone Hospital's busy Emergency Department."
