- The Palaszczuk Government today announced the services that will be provided at each Satellite Hospital.
- Each Satellite Hospital will include a Minor Injury and Illness Clinic that will provide walk-in urgent care from 8:00am until late seven days a week.
- The Satellite Hospitals will also include a range of other services depending on the location, such as renal dialysis, chemotherapy, ante-natal and post-natal services, and day medical treatments, as well as consult and treatment rooms.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk today announced the services that will be provided at each of the Satellite Hospitals being built in growing communities across South-East Queensland.
The Satellite Hospitals will deliver free healthcare closer to home in Tugun, Redlands, Eight Mile Plains, Bribie Island, Caboolture, Kallangur and Ripley.
Each Satellite Hospital will include a Minor Injury and Illness Clinic that will be open seven days a week from 8:00am and will accept patients until 10:00pm (with health staff working until 11:30pm).
These clinics will provide walk-in urgent care for common injuries and illnesses - like strains and sprains, broken bones, minor head injuries, infections and rashes, minor eye issues, minor cuts and burns, tooth ache and earache, and fever.
The Satellite Hospitals will also include:
- Renal dialysis chairs at Tugun, Bribie Island, Kallangur, Redlands and Eight Mile Plains
- Chemotherapy chairs at Redlands and Eight Mile Plains
- Day medical chairs at Tugun and Bribie Island (which provide services such as infusions of iron, pharmacological agents, antibodies, steroids and blood transfusions, for conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis, immune deficiencies and infections)
- Appointments with mental health specialists at Caboolture, Bribie Island, Redlands and Ripley
- A rehabilitation gym at Bribie Island and Kallangur
- Oral health services at Caboolture, Kallangur, Bribie Island and Ripley
- Sleep studies clinic at Caboolture
- BreastScreen services at Ripley
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Hubs at Caboolture, Bribie Island and Kallangur.
In addition, the Satellite Hospitals will include consult and treatment rooms for appointments with Queensland Health doctors, nurses and allied health professionals for a range of specialities tailored to each local community.
The Satellite Hospitals will take pressure off our emergency departments and major hospitals, and help meet the increasing demand for services we're seeing in these growing communities.
The Satellite Hospitals Program will expand capacity across South-East Queensland, with total capacity across the seven facilities including:
- walk-in urgent care for up to 3,430 patients per week (depending on the case mix)
- 640 renal dialysis treatments per week, 180 chemotherapy treatments per week, and 140 day medical treatments per week
- 3,160 outpatient appointments per week in the consult and treatment rooms.
Quotes attributable to Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk:
"Our Satellite Hospitals Program will significantly expand health capacity right across South-East Queensland," the Premier said.
"This nation leading program will take pressure off our busy emergency departments, while allowing locals to access free healthcare closer to home.
"This is just one part of our record $23.6 billion investment into healthcare, which is delivering more hospitals, more beds, more services and more frontline health workers."
Quotes attributable to Minister Yvette D'Ath:
"Our Government will always defend free healthcare closer to home – and that's exactly what our Satellite Hospitals Program will deliver," Minister D'Ath said.
"Our purpose-built Satellite Hospitals will allow locals to access healthcare closer to home rather than having to travel to major hospitals, and will help meet the increasing demand for services we're seeing in these growing communities.
"Our Satellite Hospitals Program has also supported good jobs in our local communities, creating more than 770 construction jobs across South-East Queensland.
"The LNP have now revealed their secret $10 billion infrastructure cuts list, and Satellite Hospitals are right at the top. They've trashed these facilities from the start, and now they're earmarked for sale under David Crisafulli's debt reduction plan.
"When the LNP were last in office, they sacked 4,400 health staff and didn't plan or announce a single new health infrastructure project. The LNP's only plan is to cut, sack and sell."
