The Gillard Labor Government will build a new GP Super Clinic for the ACT to improve access to health services for local families.
GP Super Clinics are a key part of the Gillard Labor Government’s plan to improve GP and other primary care services around the country.
The ACT is a growing community with young families and chronic GP shortage
To be constructed within the ACT, the GP Super Clinic will offer after hours GP services and help take the pressure off local hospitals.
GP Super Clinics are a key part of the Gillard Labor Government’s plan to improve access to coordinated health care services for the local community.
GP Super Clinics also provide a quality setting to help train some of the 3,000 nurses and 1,300 GPs who will come on-line over the next 3 years as a result of Federal Labor’s investments to address Mr Abbott’s health workforce shortages.
A GP Super Clinic will help take pressure off the Canberra Hospital Emergency Department and provide important and much needed health services, especially after hours, for local families.
“The Gillard Labor Government wants to invest in health services in growing communities like the ACT”, said Nicola Roxon said.
“Tony Abbott would take us backwards on health. He has committed to scrapping funding for GP Super Clinics, which means people in Canberra will miss out on the services this clinic will provide. Tony Abbott just does not have the judgement to be Prime Minister.”
The Gillard Labor Government will provide up to $15 million for the establishment of the ACT GP Super Clinic, as part of the funding for additional GP Super Clinics provided for in the 2010-11 Budget.
A competitive process will be conducted by the Department of Health and Ageing to determine the successful operator of the ACT GP Super Clinic.
