Thousands visit urgent care clinic

Assistant Health Minister and Member for Dobell, Emma McBride, is delighted that more than 15,000 people have been able to access free medical care at the Lake Haven Medicare Urgent Care Clinic.

She said that one in five presenting at the clinic were children aged under 15, demonstrating that Medicare Urgent Care Clinics were a trusted alternative to the ED for local families.

The Lake Haven Medicare Urgent Care Clinic offers care for urgent but not life-threatening injuries – a cut, break or bite.

The clinic offers fully bulk-billed care seven days a week, over extended hours.

It opened in December 2023 and is located at Coastal Lakes Medical in the Lake Haven Shopping Centre.

Across the country, more than one million people have visited one of the 87 Medicare Urgent Care Clinics.

McBride said the Labor Government was strengthening Medicare on the Central Coast, opening the Lake Haven Medicare Urgent Care Clinic, establishing the Tuggerah Medicare Mental Health Centre, increasing the bulk billing incentive so more locals could see the GP for free, and making medicines cheaper by freezing the cost of PBS prescriptions.

“Healthcare is my priority, and that’s why Labor is strengthening Medicare here on the Central Coast,” she said.

“I worked at Wyong Hospital for almost a decade, and I know just how important access to timely and affordable healthcare is for locals.

“I’m delighted that over 15,000 people have now accessed free, urgent care at the Lake Haven Medicare Urgent Care – a trusted alternative to the Wyong ED.”