The Albanese Government is delivering for residents on the Central Coast with the opening of the Erina Medicare Urgent Care Clinic.

Located at Erina Fair Shopping Centre, 620-658 Terrigal Drive, Erina, the Erina 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 Erina Medicare Urgent Care Clinic will ease pressure on the busy Gosford Hospital, where around 44 per cent of presentations in 2023-24 were for semi-urgent or non-urgent conditions.

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 452,100 presentations to New South Wales 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 Erina Medicare UCC is commissioned by Hunter New England and Central Coast Primary Health Network. 

Quotes attributable to Minister Butler:

“The Erina Medicare Urgent Care Clinic is a game changer for families in Erina and Terrigal. 

“The Erina Medicare Urgent Care Clinic will ease pressure on the emergency department at Gosford Hospital and free up staff at the hospital to provide care to people with more serious conditions.

“This clinic is a key part of the Albanese Government’s commitment to strengthen Medicare and make health care more accessible and affordable.”

Quotes attributable to Assistant Minister McBride:

“I’m delighted the Erina Medicare Urgent Care Clinic is now open and receiving their first patients in time for the busy summer period.

“Centrally located at Erina Fair, the new Medicare Urgent Care Clinic will support people across the Coast with locals now having greater access to free healthcare.

“Erina joins existing Medicare Urgent Care Clinics in Lake Haven and Umina, which have jointly seen more than 50,000 locals since opening 2023.”

Quotes attributable to Dr Gordon Reid MP, Member for Robertson:

“Our community fought hard to secure this additional Medicare Urgent Care Clinic for the Central Coast.

“We launched a community petition several months ago calling for another Medicare Urgent Care Clinic to service our region and help take more pressure off our hospital emergency departments.

“With the Peninsula Medicare Urgent Care Clinic in Umina Beach, and our new clinic in Erina, this will mean even more people will be able to access urgent care for those times when you are too sick for the GP but not sick enough for the emergency department.”

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