with Michelle Rowland MP

Have you ever had a pressing medical need that was not a hospital emergency, but couldn’ t wait to be seen by your local GP?

Labor’ s Medicare Urgent Care Clinics are the answer- providing fast healthcare for burns, cuts, infections, sprains, minor fractures and more.

They are walk-in, open early till late, and fully bulk billed.

As your local Member of Parliament, I have always fought for our growing North-West community to get essential, affordable health services- like our successful community campaign for an emergency department at the Rouse Hill Hospital development.

I am so pleased a re-elected Albanese Labor Government will deliver a Medicare Urgent Care Clinic for our community, one of 50 additional clinics being delivered right across the country. These will start to open from mid next year, and around 80 % of Australians will live within a 20-minute drive from one.

At the Medicare Urgent Care Clinic in Rouse Hill, all you will need is your Medicare card, not your credit card.

It will take pressure off the Blacktown Hospital and mean you and your loved

ones will get care when you need it – without waiting hours in a busy emergency department.

Labor proudly built Medicare. Since coming to office, the Albanese Government has been making it stronger. We have delivered cheaper medicines, more bulk billing and 87 Medicare Urgent Care Clinics across Australia. North- West Sydney is next.

Peter Dutton was voted the worst Health Minister by Australian doctors and he tried to destroy Medicare. We won’ t let him do it again.

He tried to end bulk billing and slashed $ 50 billion from public hospital budgets. He wanted to monetise essential health care by making patients pay a GP Tax to see their doctor.

Now his Liberal colleagues are trying to take credit for Labor’ s Medicare Urgent Care Clinics. Liberal spokesperson for Western Sydney, Melissa McIntosh MP, recently re-announced a clinic for Green Valley in South West Sydney.

I can’ t blame her – Medicare Urgent Care Clinics are a good Labor idea, which is why we have already delivered 87 in our

first term, helping more than 1.2 million Australians.

What the Liberals fail to admit is Green Valley was already announced by Labor.

They had nine years in government and never opened a single Urgent Care Clinic, and have repeatedly labelled

them as“ wasteful spending”. So how can you trust them to deliver a clinic for our community?

Labor’ s Urgent Care Clinics are an essential service that only a re-elected Albanese Government can be trusted to deliver for the people of Western Sydney.