Two mental health clinics and a new MUCC have been announced.
The urgent care juggernaut continues to roll across the country with DoHAC announcing that a Medicare UC clinic will be opened in the Hunter, and two new Medicare mental health clinics will open in Young and Wagga Wagga, all in NSW.
The MUCC in the Hunter will service Newcastle and Lake Macquarie and will be commissioned by the Hunter New England and Central Coast PHN with an expression of interest campaign to be published shortly.
The clinic is one of a further 29 promised as part of a $227 million expansion of the Medicare UCC program announced in the 2024–25 Budget.
No opening date has been released for the new MUCC at this stage.
The new mental health clinics will be open “later this year” according to an announcement from Assistant Minister for Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Emma McBride today.
They are part of the 61 being built on established Head to Health network sites, 22 of which will be in NSW.
The two centres in the Riverina are co-funded by the federal government and the NSW Government as part of the mental health bilateral agreement.
An interim service opened in Wagga Wagga in May co-located with Mission Australia with the permanent site at 235-241 Baylis Street expected to open later this year.
More than $9.7 million in funding has been allocated to the Murrumbidgee Primary Health Network to commission the two centres, which are operated by Grand Pacific Health.
