The Albanese Government is delivering for residents in Nowra with the opening of the Nowra Medicare Urgent Care Clinic.
Located at 107 Scenic Drive, Nowra, the new federally-funded Nowra 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.
The Nowra Medicare Urgent Care Clinic will ease pressure on the busy Shoalhaven Hospital, where around 51 per cent of presentations in 2024-25 were for semi-urgent or non-urgent conditions.
New data from the NSW Bureau of Health shows the Albanese Government’s Medicare Urgent Care Clinics across New South Wales are easing pressure on NSW hospitals. Semi-urgent presentations to NSW emergency departments have dropped by 5.1 per cent while non-urgent presentations have dropped by 8.7 per cent.
There are now 36 Medicare Urgent Care Clinics open across New South Wales.
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 seen more than 2.6 million presentations since the first site opened in June 2023, including more than 542,500 presentations to New South Wales Medicare Urgent Care Clinics.
In New South Wales more than one in four of these were patients aged under 15 years old, more than one in four were on weekends, and more than one in five were weekday after hours visits (at or after 5pm).
The Nowra Medicare Urgent Care Clinic is commissioned by South Eastern New South Wales Primary Health Network.
Quotes attributable to Minister Butler:
“We’re delivering on our promise to open more Medicare Urgent Care Clinics in New South Wales.
“This 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 New South Wales hospitals and making sure patients can get the care they need when they need it.”
Quotes attributable to Fiona Phillips MP, Member for Gilmore:
“This clinic will make a real difference for locals by providing convenient, bulk billed urgent care right here in the heart of Nowra.
“The opening of the clinic is a huge win for our community, taking the pressure off the emergency department at Shoalhaven Hospital.
“In my community petition, and during the election campaign, hundreds of people told me how desperately this service was needed in Nowra.
“I promised to deliver this important service for our community and I’m so thrilled it has been delivered, and the doors are now open.”
