{"id":505364,"date":"2026-02-26T12:59:48","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T12:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/505364\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T12:59:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T12:59:48","slug":"new-bulk-billed-urgent-care-clinic-to-open-in-kingston-on-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/505364\/","title":{"rendered":"New bulk-billed urgent care clinic to open in Kingston on Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new bulk-billed urgent care clinic will open in Kingston on Monday, offering extended hours seven days a week to treat non-life-threatening conditions.<\/p>\n

The Kingston Medicare Urgent Care Clinic will be staffed by doctors and nurses who can treat urgent but not emergency care such as viral infections, sprained ankles and cuts.<\/p>\n

The clinic aims to reduce pressure on Royal Hobart Hospital, where about 32% of presentations in last year were for semi-urgent or non-urgent conditions.<\/p>\n

Federal Health Minister Mark Butler said the clinic would be \u201ca game changer for families in the region\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"\"The clinic aims to reduce pressure on Royal Hobart Hospital<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Kingston Medicare Urgent Care Clinic will ease pressure on the Royal Hobart Hospital emergency department which provides care to people with more serious conditions,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis clinic is a key part of the Albanese Government\u2019s commitment to strengthen Medicare and make health care more accessible and affordable.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"The Kingston Medicare Urgent Care Clinic is opening on Monday<\/p>\n

Local MP Julie Collins said the clinic would provide convenient care in the heart of Kingston.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe opening of the clinic is a huge win for our community, taking the pressure off the emergency department,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI fought hard to secure this Medicare Urgent Care Clinic as an election commitment and I\u2019m so proud to see it now delivered on and serving the local community.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Kingston clinic will join seven existing Medicare Urgent Care Clinics across Tasmania, part of a national network designed to put four out of five Australians within a 20-minute drive of their local clinic.<\/p>\n

\"\"Local MP Julie Collins said she fought hard to secure the Kingston clinic<\/p>\n

Since the first clinics opened in 2023, there have been more than 2.5 million presentations nationally, including over 147,300 at Tasmanian sites.<\/p>\n

One in four patients were aged under 15, more than one in four visited on weekends, and over one in three came for weekday after-hours visits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new bulk-billed urgent care clinic will open in Kingston on Monday, offering extended hours seven days a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[64,63,137,500],"class_list":["post-505364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-health","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}